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Fifteen TV shows that shaped the decade
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Updated: 2009-12-23 11:45
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5. “Lost” (2004 - 2010)
When “Lost” debuted in October 2004, television fans didn’t understand what hit them. And apparently, neither did the shows creators or producers. Admittedly, executive producers J.J. Abrams, Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, had no idea in what direction the show was going to head. It had been hastily cast as a concept show around a group of people being stranded on an island by a studio president who was soon thereafter fired. But when it debuted to huge ratings, the story began to take shape. Along with “Desperate Housewives,” which premiered the same week, ABC had a one-two punch on their hands, which made them players again in primetime (“Grey’s Anatomy” would follow the next spring). But the mythology that arose around Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), Locke (Terry O’Quinn), Sawyer (Josh Holloway), and the rest of the talented cast, was soon to become the stuff of sci-fi legend. By the end of season one, the writers had set up the plot for the back-story of the island when they discovered the first Dharma Initiative hatch. And from the opening scene of season two, the show took on an increasingly different direction. Since then, the show has only gotten better, and it will smartly wrap up its sixth and final season this coming spring. And stakes of good vs. evil, control of our characters souls, and perhaps the future of the world, couldn’t be higher! I’m getting goose bumps just typing this! – Jeremy Blacklow
