Couldn’t agree more here. Not even sure if I have watched all episodes of season 5 and 6 because it was so disappointing and get complicated to follow up.
Disappointing because LOST was the first ‘blockbuster’ series.
Don’t know if it was S4 or not. but yeah, after a while it was just…umm…lost!!!
Yeah that what I liked about the ending. It was “real”.
We just watched 5 seasons of corruption, police work, power, while filled with arguments and pondering on crime, education, politics, poverty and umpteen other issues. Brilliant character development and heart breaking deaths…
After 5 seasons of all that what ultimately changed? Nothing. None of it mattered.
A great ending to a show that continuously told you that nothing happening matters, nothing changes, in the long run.
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I’d say it was the opposite. Season 3 was the point at which they realized they were struggling without a defined end point, so started negotiations with the Network to give them a defined finish line. The network didn’t want to as they didn’t want to end a cash cow prematurely, but the writers were arguing that without a defined finish line they found themselves in that season writing way too much filler as they didnt know how quickly they needed to move forward with the core bits of the story. They even used Sawyer and Hurley to repeatedly call it out to the viewers. There was one famous bit during the Nicki and Paulo episode (new survivor characters who showed up in S3 where Sawyer made a point of saying he didn’t know who they were and didnt care…just like all the viewers). By the end of the season they got the commitment for 6 season and from there starting trying to write towards the end of the show.
what a great series, start to finish. Tom Hanks did an amazing job with it. mandatory marathon watch every year around Armistice/Remembrance Day.
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great series
I’d add Rubicon to your list of prematurely axed. season1 was fantastic, there was no second season.
LOVED this show. ahh, Alice Morgan is so delicious in that series… I’ve always had a soft spot for la femme fatale… she also looks a hell of a lot like my ex…
I think there was a lot of creative infighting on that show with one of the creators walking out. I think it felt a little disjointed at time, like it was two people with different ideas of what it should be about combing to write on one show, but it felt would have been more coherent had it been allowed a second season under the ownership of the guy who stuck around.
much like how my thought processes work sometimes 
. Likely why I enjoyed it so much.
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I don’t think I mentioned it before, but recently watched ‘Shimmer Lake’ on Netflix. Wasn’t expecting much but actually really enjoyed it.
Will finish The Chestnut Man tonight.
Love a Scandi crime series me…only six episodes, too, so dead easy.
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Started watching See, quite shit atm, about 3 episodes in.
Watched the first episode last week. Looked like it was worth watching but a bit too serious for us at the time ( we switched to National Lampoon’s Vacation 
)
Yeah…quite different from that!
If you watched it on Netflix you may get a recommendation from it to watch The Reckoning. Dont. It’s legit one of the worst supposedly serious thrillers I’ve ever seen.
The recommendation as the credits were rolling was Equinox…which is the same actress. Looks like some supernatural mystery drama thing.
May watch.
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Would recommend this.
I was seriously tempted to watch this on Saturday, but the missus wanted us to watch a movie rather than a series (as we’ve had trouble not binge watching all the episodes of shows we have been watching recently). I was also very unimpressed by its rather short trailer. Looks like we made a good call on that.
Anyone seen Succession? I’ve been recommended…
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I asked that last week and nobody answered 
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