It is boring and dry at times. Lost is one of those shows that when it’s bad it’s horrible. There is a tendency to get intellectual and smug about it resulting in long scenes of expository blabbing. Some of the cast are also annoying to watch act, and I made that statement very specifically. In that I’m not watching them be their character but that I can actually see them acting. Which in a movie is bad news, on TV it’s unforgivable.

With the need to keep so much story drenched in shadow, innuendo and mystery there are time when you’re watching and just know all that’s happening is filler to mask the clues. It’s bad stage magic. “Watch this hand not this one, are we not clever in how we fooled you?” Well no because I have rewind and skipped back to check what you were really doing.

That all being said when Lost steps up to the plate and shows you what it’s go, Damn if it isn’t brilliant TV. Granted I like over complicated stories with deep characters that you can peel like an onion (That means sometimes there is crying involved) and a mystery that entertains even if at times you spot the frayed edges and contivences.

Wow I’m so not doing a good job of pimping a show I genuinely like am I.

Lost is smart television, which is rare. give it three episodes and then tell me that there isn’t a single plot element in there that doesn’t make you go. “Gee I wonder what happens next.” We read comic books, isn’t that a feeling we crave?