ABC’s Lost changed television. The show, which debuted in 2004, wasn’t the first show to serialize its episodes. You can go back to the shows like The Fugitive in the ‘60s and even 24 in the same era for earlier examples, but Lost really mastered the art of entering almost every break on a cliffhanger or with a bigger question. It was also (for a time) really great at juggling multiple timelines. They are things that we see all the time on TV today; in fact, it’s become completely predictable to be unpredictable. It did all this despite angering a huge amount of its audience with its ending, and as a result, Lost, which you can watch with a Hulu subscription, has become a hugely influential TV show.
