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Muddy, I think Evangeline Lilly is one of the most attractive women I have ever seen yet I have not watched one episode of Lost.

Do you recommend I give Lost a shot?
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Fuck NO.

The reason I asked the question is I watched episode 1 of The Leftovers and it seemed intriguing and mysterious. But then I started to get niggling doubts - hey wait a second - because it was reminding me of LOST.

Lo and behold the main creative guy behind it was a big part of LOST.

LOST sucked me in. There is all kinds of weird puzzly stuff they present and it gets you wondering. Perfect for a brain like mine which loves solving puzzles. But all it ever does is keep presenting more puzzles and never goes anywhere with any of them (except for one big cop-out at the end.)

I consider LOST perhaps the biggest waste of time I have ever had with TV. It went on for many seasons. Kudos to them for sucking me in I suppose.

Some people will say even now it was good or even great, so who knows if you would like it? But no, I do not recommend it.



And I believe The Leftovers is based on a real book so it is not necessarily straight from the mind of the LOST guy. Maybe it will go somewhere. But I'm going to wait awhile and see what people are saying before I jump back into it.

But to evaluate any feedback I am seeing, I need to know if that person liked LOST.
 
Watching Lost when it was airing made more sense. The creators pulled some nice stunts that made the show's mythology wildly fascinating - I remember that they had set up a number of fake websites that you'd find if you googled stuff about the Dharma corporation/initiative.

It was a little bit revolutionary in that sense. The show's footprint went beyond the TV medium.

But watching after the fact, knowing that the ending is controversial? No. You're better off pretending the show never happened.
 
Well, to a point. But the disappointment was not strictly after the fact. Many of us were cursing it while we watched for several seasons. A sharp mind could see they had nothing but I guess we hung on for a miraculous Hail Mary which never came.

A couple seasons - okay. But that shit went on for 6 seasons.
 
Season 2 premiers of a couple of shows tonight with different standing in my mind.

Ray Donovan is hanging by a thread and it would not take much additional malarkey to make me dump that. I am on malarkey lookout.

Masters of Sex had a very uneven first season. Some great moments and some serious missteps but the overall trend was improvement as it went along. By the end I would say it was actually very good. So I have some hopes for that.
 
I never watched Lost. But right now while watching The Leftovers I am constantly asking myself the same questions, so why aren't those people dressed like mental patients talking, and why are they smoking constantly, and how does any of that equate with a separatist viewpoint? How does that make life easier for them? Seems like constantly writing your thoughts and opinions down on paper instead of speaking would make things more difficult. I agree with Muddy that the puzzle solving aspect intrigues me, but depending upon how long it is drawn out that intrigue will ultimately turn to frustration with the writers and I'll tune out. I guess I love David Lynch movies for that, but they are only 2 or 3 hours long. Don't make me wait seasons to just not deliver.
 
The Revenge of the Electric Car (2011) - Excellent documentary on Netflix. Elon Musk of Tesla and ex-GM CEO Bob Lutz are followed very closely and Lutz seems especially candid. Musk is a bit awkward and reserved but the guy is admirably driven.

Very-well made overall, someone had to have excellent connects to be able to follow these people so closely.

9 Extended-Range Hybrid Matty Rains out of 10
 
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