LOST Is Back On Netflix (So Don’t Talk to Me For a While)
There has never been a more divisive topic of conversation in my life than the show LOST. I’m fairly certain that every person that has ever watched it will come back out the other end with a wildly different opinion about what they just watched.
Given that I’m a sucker for a good re-watched and it’s been a good amount of time since I’ve seen it so I figured it was time. As I’m writing this, I’m on the final episode of the first season and I’m honestly just as giddy as the first time I watched it.
The moment I started the first episode I was transported back. I will be honest that I was late to the game when it came to watching the show. I had heard a bunch about it here and there while the first season was airing but it was my first year of college so I was a bit preoccupied with that. For some reason when the first season was released on DVD, I decided to snag it up.
Don’t ask me why my memory works like this but it was a Saturday night when I began watching it. I watched the first two episodes that night and was hooked but needed to stop myself from falling too far down the rabbit hole because I had to work at 6:30 in the morning.
Needless to say, I was a fan. I ended up making it a point to watch it every week when season 2 picked up a few weeks later. I think it was the last time a TV show really connected me with people. A co-worker and I were hooked and talked about it constantly. Swapping theories and insights. Eventually, I met people at school who were watching too and we became a cult.
The show was so much fun to try and decode and argue about. Right up until the end, and even now, 14 years after the finale aired, my friends and I were arguing about what it all meant. There are actually still people I can’t mention the show to because our opinions are so wildly different that we will get into a fight over it.
I honestly can’t think of a show since then that has done the same. Sure, House of the Dragon and Game of Thrones has come close but not quite- there was source material, LOST had nothing.
The moral of the story is, I’ll be sitting here re-watching all of it if anyone needs me. Anyone else doing a re-watch? Let me know! I’m sure I’m not done talking about it.
