[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from the first half of “Manifest,” “God Friended Me,” and “A Million Little Things” Season 1.]
Eight years later, the “Lost” legacy is alive and well. J.J. Abrams, Carlton Cuse, and Damon Lindelof proved it was possible to extend the enigma of Oceanic Flight 815 across six seasons, and this fall brought three shows that accepted the challenge for their own overarching mysteries: NBC’s “Manifest,” ABC’s “A Million Little Things,” and CBS’ “God Friended Me.”
The shows aren’t “Lost” copycats — each is vastly different in premise and approach — but they harbor the shared hope of providing the kind of addictive storytelling that turned “Lost” into a cultural touchstone and a ratings monster.
“Lost” provides a rough template: The story of survival after a plane crashed on an island gave way to an intriguing character study as each person’s backstory was revealed. Then the show introduced outside threats and unexplained phenomena. Some answers were forthcoming,...
Eight years later, the “Lost” legacy is alive and well. J.J. Abrams, Carlton Cuse, and Damon Lindelof proved it was possible to extend the enigma of Oceanic Flight 815 across six seasons, and this fall brought three shows that accepted the challenge for their own overarching mysteries: NBC’s “Manifest,” ABC’s “A Million Little Things,” and CBS’ “God Friended Me.”
The shows aren’t “Lost” copycats — each is vastly different in premise and approach — but they harbor the shared hope of providing the kind of addictive storytelling that turned “Lost” into a cultural touchstone and a ratings monster.
“Lost” provides a rough template: The story of survival after a plane crashed on an island gave way to an intriguing character study as each person’s backstory was revealed. Then the show introduced outside threats and unexplained phenomena. Some answers were forthcoming,...
- 12/17/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
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