I’ve been watching season 4 of AOT in preparation for the final episode! I recently started watching JJK to see what all the hype is about, and I’ve been enjoying it quite a bit!
Honorable mentions:
I got back into WWE! I’m absolutely loving Rhea Ripley and The Judgement Day, and the New Day coming back has been AMAZING! The Bloodline’s storyline has been pretty fun to watch play out.
Show I LOVE that I need to finish:
I absolutely adore this show. The cast is great, the story is great. Everything about it is amazing. I highly recommend!
Yes I wrote an essay about why you should watch Lost...READ IT!
In this essay, I will tell you why Lost is the best show ever to exist!
Many people describe Lost in the following sentence: “Oh, so there’s a plane crash, and all this crazy stuff happens, and then it just gets really confusing and the it has a horrible ending...” and let me just say anyone who says that are WRONG and simply have no idea how to put any bit of information together to come to a solid conclusion about what really happened.
However, Lost is truly one of the most well-written tv shows when it not only comes to both plot but character as well, and it just truly hurts to see that people are so quick to judge something before taking the time to truly judge what is going on.
If I could describe Lost (and I can do this quite well as I’ve watched all 121 episodes 9 times), I would say the beginning goes as follows: “Lost is a show about flight Oceanic 815, that takes off from Sydney, Australia to Los Angeles on September 22, 2004 (which is the same day the show premiered) and crashes somewhere in the middle of the ocean on a deserted island. However, they are soon to learn that the island they inhabit is not quite as deserted as they once believed. I won’t say more because I think it is best for you to find out for yourself.
But it is important to know that for 2004 Lost was REVOLUTIONARY to the television industry. Before Lost, it was considered taboo to spend larger amounts of money for the pilot of a show that may not even work out. In fact, when the ABC chairmen funded the 14 million dollar pilot for Lost, he was fired for risking such a huge amount of money for a potential flop!
However, once they recognized how successful the 2 part pilot was, many of the shows with expensive pilots you see now (ex: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, & American Horror Story) have recognized how profitable it can be to take risks in investing large amounts of money in tv shows. Lost helped shaped television and you should pay respects to the show that did it all for you!
Pictured below is the plane they bought and ripped apart for the pilot:
But if there is ONE thing that Lost has ever excelled with is their characters. With 14 main characters, (and 1 honorary main character), Lost utilizes each episode to focus a majority of their time focusing on one character and who they were before arriving to the island. For the Oncers who are familiar with this concept, Once Upon a Time was written after Lost but is run by a majority of the same people, but I would argue Lost is written a lot better in terms of consistency but I may just be biased.
Pictured below are all 14 main characters for season 1:
And something that Lost was really praised for was bringing such a diverse cast to the screen featuring well-known celebrities such as Naveen Andrews, Maggie Grace, Ian Somerhalder, Daniel Dae Kim, Harold Perrineau, and Dominic Monaghan.
With each episode focusing on one character, Lost excelled at breaking many stereotypes that are often forced on the television screen every day. Daniel Dae Kim, who plays Jin on the show says that he was first afraid to join the show because he was worried that he would be placed in the stereotypical Korean role where he is very abusive and controlling of everything his wife does because that’s just how he is, but was very happy that Lost gave his character many different layers they got to learn about their character as the show went on.
The characters both on and off-island are used to discuss many serious topics such as faith vs science, destiny, life and death, and many other things through the well-written and enjoyable plot for the show.
How they break other stereotypes I will allow you to learn for yourself when you begin the wonderful journey to one of the best shows of all time. Give it a chance, and if you aren’t hooked by the end of season 1, I won’t hold it against you, but trust me when I say that this show is definitely something to get involved with...also watch these 2 trailers...they both take place in the same setting but they both also have different narratives they portray and that’s important.
Also I recently discovered a show called Workin’ Moms on netflix thats really funny while also showcasing some very serious issues and um it has three seasons but I had never heard of it before watching it so its kinda undiscovered i guess and undeservingly so bc its really good!!!
