Lost(迷失)

Lost is an American television series created by Jeffrey Lieber, J.J.Abrams and Damon Lindelof, which originally aired on the American Broadcasting Company from September 22,2004 to May 23,2010. The series follows the lives of various groups and people, most importantly the  survivors of the crash of a commercial passsenger jet flying between Sydney and Los Angeles, on a mysterious tropical island somewhere in the South Pacific. Episodes typically feature a primary storyline on the island, as well as a secondary storyline from another point in a character's life.

Lost was produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions aND Grass Skirt Productions. Thoughout its run, teh executive producers of the series were Lindelof, Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender, Edward Kitsis, Adam Horowitz, Jean Higgins, Elizabeth Sarnoff and Carlton Cuse. Due to its large ensemble cast and the cost of filming primarily on location in Oahu, Hawaii, the series was one of the most expensive on television. During its run, the series utilized the alternative reality games, The Lost Experience and Find 815 on the Internet, and references to the series appear in print, film, other television programs as well as Web media.

A critically acclaimed and popular success, Lost was consistently ranked by US critics on the lists of top fives series of the year. The first season garnered an average of 15.69 million US viewers per episode on ABC. Although ratings lessened throughout its run, the series had stable ratings and the six season averaged over 11 million US viewer per episode. Lost was teh recipient of hundreds of US award nominations throughout its run, and won numerous industry awards, including the Emmy Award for US prime time Outstanding Drama Series in 2005. Best American Import at the British Academy Television Adward in 2005,the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe for Best Drama in 2006 and a US Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Ensemble in a Drama series.

Main article:List of Lost episodes

The first season begins with a plane crash which strands the surviving passengers of Oceanic Flight 8115 on which seems to be a deserted tropical island, forcing the group of strangers to work together to stay alive. Their survival is threatened by mysterious entities including polar bears, an unseen creature the roams the jungle,and the island's malevolent inhabitants known as "The Others". The encounter a Frenchwoman named Danielle Rousseau who was shipwrecked on the island over 16 years earlier, and find a mysterious metal hatch buried in the ground. While one group tries to force their way into the hatch, another group attempt to leave the island on a raft which they have constructed. Flashbacks centered on individual survivors detail lives prior to the plane crash.

The second season follows the grouping conflict between the survivors and the Others, and continues the theme of the clash between faith and science, while resolving and posing new mysterious. New characters are introduced, including the tail-section survivors and other island inhabitants. The hatch is revealed to be a research station built by the Dharma Initiative, a scientific organization that was conducting experiments on the island decades prior. As the truth about the mysterious Others begins to unfold, one of the crash survivors betrays the other castaways, and the cause of the plane crash is revealed.

In the third season, the crash survivors learn about the Others and their long history on the mysterious island. One of others and a former inhabitant of the hatch join the survivors, while one of the survivors defects to the Other. A war between the Others and the survivors comes to a head, ad the survivors make contract with a rescue team aboard the freighter Kahana.

The fourth season focuses on teh survivors dealing with the arrival of people from the freighter, who have come to the island with dangerous intentions. Flashforwards reveal the feature actions of the Oceanic Six, survivors who have escaped the island and resumed their normal lives.

The fifth season follows two timelines. The first takes place on the island where the survivors who were left behind erratically jump forward and backward through time until they are finally stranded with the Dharma Initiative in 1974. The second continues the original timeline which takes place on the mainland after the Oceanic Six escape, and then follows their return to the island on Ajira Airways Flight 316 in 2007. After three years living with the Dharma Initiative, the survivors stuck in 1977 attempt to change past events in order to alter their futures.

In the six season, the main storyling follows the survivors, reunited in the present day.