Is watching the whole of lost going to pay off for me?

something else if possible said:
I watched the first series back in the day but then never got around to series 2 for some reason. Looking for something I can sink some hours into and enjoy. It doesn’t need to be perfect but I understand there are some questionable directions it takes at times. Is it worth watching the whole thing? Or should I steer clear?
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Watch the first few seasons then stop. You will know when to stop, when it turns from been mysterious to been completely and utterly ridiculous.
 
Fantastic show with brilliant characters and storytelling.

I can see why it petered out for most people who lost interested around S4, but for me it's one of the most enjoyable shows I've watched.
 
Of the recommendations, if you've not done Breaking Bad, that's a phenomenal bit of TV.

The writers had a story to tell, and told it beautifully.

It felt complete, some series seem to start with a good premise but success makes them stretch it out and ruin it (Walking Dead, I'm looking at you) or, like, Lost seem to vaguely wander to a conclusion and try to be too clever on the way.

Breaking Bad, for me, is brilliant story from end to end with so many different episodes from dark slapstick comedy to emotional bombs.
 
wesimmo said:
Of the recommendations, if you've not done Breaking Bad, that's a phenomenal bit of TV.

The writers had a story to tell, and told it beautifully.

It felt complete, some series seem to start with a good premise but success makes them stretch it out and ruin it (Walking Dead, I'm looking at you) or, like, Lost seem to vaguely wander to a conclusion and try to be too clever on the way.

Breaking Bad, for me, is brilliant story from end to end with so many different episodes from dark slapstick comedy to emotional bombs.
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I have seen breaking bad thank you. I also loved it. However the follow up film seemed kind of pointless to me. Can’t say that I massively enjoyed it.
 
You are lucky that you will be able to binge watch Lost.
Most of us watched it weekly and then waited months for the next series and you can vey quickly lose track of things but last year I binged watched it and everything made sense.
I'm only 3 episodes into Vikings that originally was weekly over years and already I'm picking more up this time around.

Another example, I started to watch Manifest but got to the second episode.
Two weeks ago I binged the first two series and thoroughly enjoyed it so I'm going top try my hardest to save all the episodes up of series 3.

I've recently done a whole binge watch of Game of Thrones and that was way better second time round.
 
I'd accept that I think it was s5-6 where it lost it's way a bit due to the writer's strike but I'll defend Lost to the death. The first 'event' big budget TV series I got hooked on, I remember watching it weekly with my housemates at Uni and we were just enthralled. I loved the ending, if you didn't get it.. then well I can't help you...

I was going to post some quotes that will forever make me lose my **** but I realised they may be spoilers :p Honestly I could search YT now for some scenes and I'd be in bits.
 
I'm in 2 minds.

Lost is one of my top TV shows of all time. There is a lot of filler but on the most part it's worth it. I felt very very bitter about the last series for a long time afterwards but I don't mind it so much now.
 
The strength of Lost for me was the characters, not the story itself, they were mostly believable, fleshed out, you cared about them, you were invested and involved.
 
The writers clearly had no idea where the story was going from the start. This both why the show was interesting at the start and total rubbish by the end - the intriguing mysteries were pulled out of the air. There's so much good tv these days that i'd not bother!
 
lost is garbage. started good that just got ridiculously stupid as they tried to make things more and more intriguing [read: convoluted]. especially annoyed me due to them touting all over the place that the end result was not what was being mentioned on the internet, so i believed them and stuck w/ it, and it turned out it was exactly what had been mentioned, and all the more **** for it. This was the series that initiated my mindset of giving a series 2 episodes to pull itself together if it started going downhill otherwise bin, a process that has served me well.

it did have Maggie Grace in it tho, so that was that plus point.
 
Brilliant show which was completely destroyed by the ending, an ending which just confirmed that they were making it up as they went along. At the time though, it was incredible TV. I know people who have since re-watched it all and said it's better the second time round but I can't do it. Jenz above sums it up well, criminal ending.
 
Not a single thing Damon Laurence Lindelof ever done has a pay off. The man is an absolute master of character building (anything from Lost to Leftovers) and character 'moments' (John Locke in despair and that hatch). He's so good at it people should study his character creation methods in film schools. And then sign a sworn oath to never, ever, ******* ever do that to their audience. Because the man is an absolute a-hole that cannot deliver any (and I mean ANY) pay off in anything he has ever committed to film and tape. Lost is perfect example of just that.

For all the brilliance of delivery and all the heartbreaking detail in character study, the lack of payoff at the end is a trust issues inducing exponent of all the good things in it, to negative. If you watch Lost, you will never, ever trust another TV series every again.
If you thought Game of Thrones ending was a bin toss, D&D can't even lick Lindelof's dinner plate when it comes to how sharp of a nose dive and how spectacularly can once legendary and most watched TV series be crushed and burnt into the ground by its ending.
 
Lost was a good show with some very memorable moments. The problem is they just made it up as they went along and created several sub stories that never finalised or delivered an answer. Like many shows, it peaked at some point and then began to drop off as they ran out of ideas and started to get a bit absurd. The entire last season can be skipped.

something else if possible said:
That is exactly how I felt about Dexter. It wasn’t even the whole last series. Just the last couple of episodes destroyed it for me when I’d loved the rest
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Last time I checked they were remaking the last season of Dexter.
 
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