Lost
OK, so ABC has a new TV show. No, not the one with William Shatner (Boston Legal, which looks like a lot of fun), and no not the one with all the incredibly horny women (Desperate Housewives, not The Bachelor, although I guess both fit the description.
This one is called Lost, and it’s supposed to be ABC’s new kinda edgy, somewhat violent, cult drama.
Except for one thing. They’ve done it before. It was edgy 10 years ago, when it was called Twin Peaks. It’s the same show. Only in a jungle. I expect by week 8, we’ll see a midget in a red suit walking strangely down the beach.
With all that said, it’s still entertaining, and yes, I am hooked. But I was a huge Twin Peaks fan, too. I even went to see that crap movie they made.
All Lost needs is a catchphrase, which Twin Peaks was chock FULL of. TP was very quotable. â??The owls are not as they seemâ? â??She was wrapped in plasticâ? â??Damn good good coffee, and HOTâ? â??this is where pies go when they dieâ? all phrases I didn’t even need to look up, even a decade later. Lost doesn’t have this yet… episode 2’s â??Where are we?â? didn’t seem to have the same lasting impact.
Personally, I don’t think this show has a long life ahead of it, I just hope ABC has the common sense to wrap it up, which they never did with Twin Peaks. But I’ll have fun watching it until it goes away.
One Response to “Lost”
I didn’t get a Twin Peaks vibe from it at all.
And the movie wasn’t all crap. We did get to see twin peaks. Fairly often. Ahem.
So far Lost has felt a lot like a mini-series. I don’t know how they intend to make a long running series out of it.