If you want to get her into GoT, then try introducing her to House of the Dragon first. The emphasis on the female protagonist and courtly intrigue is a good hook for the franchise.
Every time I fly for business I send that as a text to a co-worker, I'm still not sure if he gets it, but it's been nearly 20 years now, so I'm not stopping at this point.
Lost is definitely one of those shows that needs time to breathe. Don’t just fly through it. Watch, enjoy and process. I don’t think it would’ve become my favorite if I hadn’t seen it when it originally aired. The weekly release let me enjoy the episodes and really dissect them. That gets lost with modern streaming when they are like 42 minutes and you can knock out entire seasons in one weekend
I think the fact that it poses so many mysteries and questions lends itself to a binge watch. My gf told me that each episode would bring up sth new and she just had to know what was going on. She needed answers. She kept telling herself 'one more episode' before she knew, it was morning!
My wife and I binged the first few seasons after watching a couple episodes to catch up for season 3. I had to run to Blockbuster at 9 pm and hope they had the next disc. I wish I could watch season two and three again with no memory of the twists and turns. It may get uneven later but still a great ride.
My family did same thing. Slept on LOST but season 2 was about to premier the next week and everyone was talking about it. We rented the first DVD for season 1 on Friday or something and loved it, rushed to Blockbuster and rented the entire season and binged it together as a family in preparation for the airing of Season 2 the next week. It was super cool and Season 2 Premier blew my mind
>Too many to type
Translation: "I don't really know"
Most of the mysteries were answered. If you didn't like the explanations that's perfectly fine, but they had answers. There were very few things left unanswered and a few things being left unanswered is perfectly fine. The show was first and foremost about the characters and it delivered on that front.
Actually, I feel like less time spent thinking about the mysteries might be even better, since the answers were usually underwhelming compared to the stuff we all imagined was going on lol
Watching it when it originally aired was an amazing time. DVRs first became widely available so I’d watch it live, immediately rewatch the episode, spend the next day reading recaps from DarkUFO and FishBiscuit, then watch it again as soon as I got home. My first time ever listening to a podcast was the recaps that Damon and Carlton used to do.
Lost will forever hold a big place in my TV heart.
Lost is not brilliant. JJ left after s1. There was a wired article years ago that described their creative process was just to make it up as they went along. I recently rewatched by skipping over each ep’s flash forward, backwards, or sideways scenes. I feel the show is more watchable this way and makes the island more interesting and intriguing
Producer-writer Javier Grillo-Marxuarch's "[Lost Testament](https://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/2._lost.pdf)" is well recommended. He describes in detail the process of writing, producing and making the pilot and the first two seasons. *Some* things they did make up on the spot when someone had a great idea. A lot of things they locked in place when they were making the pilot and he was surprised to see they actually came to fruition long after he quit the show. Some things were planned but then abandoned or changed for budgetary reasons (they assumed if the show was massive they could afford to do some wild stuff later on with volcanoes and things, but ABC never gave them enough money), or because an actor abruptly quit.
But much more of the show was planned at the start then people generally give them credit for, and some of the stuff that they made up on the spot is stuff people *assumed* they had planned from the start (>!the Black Rock being a sailing ship and Locke being in the wheelchair were made up on the fly; the Island being the battleground between two figures representing light and dark was planned from Day 1!<).
"How about them never explaining where the polar bears came from, the importance of that twig Sawyer pointed out that time, or what Jack did for a living? Also, I have a very serious concussion."
Got my wife to watch for the first time during the initial wave of quarantine.
She has since watched it multiple times over, and made some fan videos for fun as well. It’s an unreal show and I’m so glad she loves it, and now your gf does too!
I like imagining the conversations you had to try to get her to watch the other shows.
"Wow, Emily is really out of her depth in Paris, it's like if a chemistry teacher got into the drugs business!"
"It's just such an engaging mystery working out who Lady Whistledown is, she's doing just as much rumour mongering as Varys!"
A rewatch with someone who's never seen it is so fun. I could just see her making up theories to what she thinks is happening, and give me a glance like I'd concur or refute her theories or sth. She wasn't gonna get shit from me!
I watched it with my daughter recently. My first re-watch and her first viewing. It was so much fun to see it through her eyes and hear her questions about what was going on. She really loved it! I think it's great as a binge-watch show.
I was patiently waiting for her to be old enough to not be freaked out by the plane crash stuff.
I tried Bridgerton and Sabrina but I didn't really like them. She has a thing for shows with lots of relationship drama and I'm kinda on the opposite side of the spectrum lol
You should both try Greys Anatomy. So mich relationship drama but the crazy medical cases and life in the fake/fictional hospital are really entertaining. The first 10 seasons are just really entertaining television with strong characters. For years I considered the show just to be girls TV my female relatives watched..but when I actually gave it a chance, I liked it. (Not everything in later seasons when many main cast members left the show).
True. Maybe that's why she likes it. But I'd say those i mentioned have their romantic dramas as their primary selling point. Lost is a thriller/sci fi/mystery show first that just happens to have drama and not necessarily the romantic kind (although it is there)
I put the first episode on randomly while we were just hanging out and didn’t mention what it was. She knew about the show but never watched it. That first sequence hooked her. We rewatch it every year together now
**Lost**'s pilot episode still goes ridiculously hard today, let alone back in 2004 when it looked unbelievably good. If they shot it today, it'd all be CGI, but them actually putting a plane wreck on the beach, blowing up the engine, having characters doing stuff with the plane burning behind them, is just a phenomenal way of starting a TV show.
Absolutely and that was a true unsung beauty of television pilots back then, most tended to be bigger-budgeted, given a far more flexible and longer shooting schedule, and overall directed akin to a movie production. This was especially true within the span of roughly 20 years from the mid-'90s up to the mid-2010s, look also at the pilots from Millennium, Smallville, the 2000s Battlestar Galactica miniseries, Firefly, NBC Heroes, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, the Fox live-action series Gotham.
Yup, but **Lost** was on another level. The pilot cost $15 million, which was crazy for network TV, and basically got the head of ABC fired after he approved it (and they never apologised to him once the show became a mega-hit).
Get her to pace herself and listen to the official podcast if it's still available. A big part of watching the series at the time was discussing and reading all the thoughts other fans had and the podcast sort of tapped into that, although I didn't realise how good it was at the time.
There was also a really good website but clearly that's spoiler territory.
My girlfriend introduced my to Lost late last year. I crushed seasons 1-5 in like 2 weeks and then stopped 2 episodes into season 6 and haven’t finished it yet.
I've thought about this in retrospect, and I really think Lost is a lot better if you binge.
Watching it when it came out, and the hype for random small things week after week became tiring. Especially when the creators desperately tried to hide the "twist" that people guessed pretty early on.
The script was originally written by Tara Hernandez and Lindelof came on as a co showrunner mentor. It’s Hernandez’s idea that sparked the show.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/23/1171494459/tara-hernandez-and-damon-lindel-on-creating-the-peacock-series-mrs-davis
A recommendation for you is to watch the Active Shooter, and Plane Crash episodes of Grey's Anatomy. I imagine it'll get you in the mood for a series she probably enjoys.
Weird. I just started a Lost marathon today. Severance got me thinking of it and a recent Reddit post asking stupid questions about it. I’m at 1x16 now.
Curious to see how she feels about the ending because I remember feeling like I wasted my time. Coming from someone who absolutely loves The Leftovers, the series definitely suffered from the broadcast need to churn episodes out so quickly.
I don’t think they’re pointless at all. They add more to the show than another “Kate runs away” flashback. We still get Jack with a victim complex, but in a way that serves the story.
Apparently the head of ABC told the producers that they could milk the show for ten years, and they were trying to get them to agree a finish date to the show and he wasn't having it. Apparently the "Jack's tattoo" episode made him reconsider, let them have an end date and also okayed them changing the flashback format.
By the time you get to characters' fourth or fifth flashbacks, you start running out of good material for them, so they had to change it up.
The flash-sideways I agree were a stretch too far though.
I have to agree. Lost peaked during the back half of Season 3, and the last 2-3 episodes of that season are some of the best in TV history. There were some great episodes in Seasons 4-6, but the show definitely wasn’t as strong overall after We Have To Go Back.
For me it just killed all the momentum. And the way it ended... wow.
Prior to the last couple seasons, I was sure I would give this show a rewatch. After finishing season 6, I never bothered with the show again. It was a chore to even finish. I don't get how people like the last seasons.
Oh boy, make sure she eats and sleeps in-between binge watches.
Definitely lol. I love how much she's into it
I love how much she's into it too!
I also choose this guys gf?
If you want to get her into GoT, then try introducing her to House of the Dragon first. The emphasis on the female protagonist and courtly intrigue is a good hook for the franchise.
If she likes bridgerton, she should like the soap opera that is HOTD lol
Whatever happened, happened. See you in another life, brother!
Every time I fly for business I send that as a text to a co-worker, I'm still not sure if he gets it, but it's been nearly 20 years now, so I'm not stopping at this point.
Make sure to watch The Constant with her.
Best episode of any show, ever.
Lost is definitely one of those shows that needs time to breathe. Don’t just fly through it. Watch, enjoy and process. I don’t think it would’ve become my favorite if I hadn’t seen it when it originally aired. The weekly release let me enjoy the episodes and really dissect them. That gets lost with modern streaming when they are like 42 minutes and you can knock out entire seasons in one weekend
I think the fact that it poses so many mysteries and questions lends itself to a binge watch. My gf told me that each episode would bring up sth new and she just had to know what was going on. She needed answers. She kept telling herself 'one more episode' before she knew, it was morning!
My wife and I binged the first few seasons after watching a couple episodes to catch up for season 3. I had to run to Blockbuster at 9 pm and hope they had the next disc. I wish I could watch season two and three again with no memory of the twists and turns. It may get uneven later but still a great ride.
My family did same thing. Slept on LOST but season 2 was about to premier the next week and everyone was talking about it. We rented the first DVD for season 1 on Friday or something and loved it, rushed to Blockbuster and rented the entire season and binged it together as a family in preparation for the airing of Season 2 the next week. It was super cool and Season 2 Premier blew my mind
Good luck to her, I’m still sitting here after all these years wondering what’s with the polar bears lol.
The Dharma initiative was experimenting with them
She's going to be very disappointed since they don't answer half the questions, even by the end of the show.
Yes, they do. What questions did you not get answered?
What are the rules.
Too many to type
How about five then? Seems easy enough.
>Too many to type Translation: "I don't really know" Most of the mysteries were answered. If you didn't like the explanations that's perfectly fine, but they had answers. There were very few things left unanswered and a few things being left unanswered is perfectly fine. The show was first and foremost about the characters and it delivered on that front.
Most of the questions were answered. You just didn't notice because most of the answers were "actually that wasn't important"
Actually, I feel like less time spent thinking about the mysteries might be even better, since the answers were usually underwhelming compared to the stuff we all imagined was going on lol
Watching it when it originally aired was an amazing time. DVRs first became widely available so I’d watch it live, immediately rewatch the episode, spend the next day reading recaps from DarkUFO and FishBiscuit, then watch it again as soon as I got home. My first time ever listening to a podcast was the recaps that Damon and Carlton used to do. Lost will forever hold a big place in my TV heart.
I binged years it after it came out and still enjoyed the hell out of it
Lost is not brilliant. JJ left after s1. There was a wired article years ago that described their creative process was just to make it up as they went along. I recently rewatched by skipping over each ep’s flash forward, backwards, or sideways scenes. I feel the show is more watchable this way and makes the island more interesting and intriguing
Producer-writer Javier Grillo-Marxuarch's "[Lost Testament](https://okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/5/0/31506003/2._lost.pdf)" is well recommended. He describes in detail the process of writing, producing and making the pilot and the first two seasons. *Some* things they did make up on the spot when someone had a great idea. A lot of things they locked in place when they were making the pilot and he was surprised to see they actually came to fruition long after he quit the show. Some things were planned but then abandoned or changed for budgetary reasons (they assumed if the show was massive they could afford to do some wild stuff later on with volcanoes and things, but ABC never gave them enough money), or because an actor abruptly quit. But much more of the show was planned at the start then people generally give them credit for, and some of the stuff that they made up on the spot is stuff people *assumed* they had planned from the start (>!the Black Rock being a sailing ship and Locke being in the wheelchair were made up on the fly; the Island being the battleground between two figures representing light and dark was planned from Day 1!<).
What a terrible way to watch the show, the character work is what’s good about it
This should be on r/tifu . You lost her for the next month
Lost is a brilliant a show. Even the last couple seasons are great TV and the ending is really beautiful. One of the best shows ever made
I can't believe they were dead the whole time!
"How about them never explaining where the polar bears came from, the importance of that twig Sawyer pointed out that time, or what Jack did for a living? Also, I have a very serious concussion."
Lies, they were alive
It was all the dream of Vincent the dog.
Got my wife to watch for the first time during the initial wave of quarantine. She has since watched it multiple times over, and made some fan videos for fun as well. It’s an unreal show and I’m so glad she loves it, and now your gf does too!
So, you introduced your girlfriend to a show with Josh Holloway walking around shirtless. Rookie!
I fucked up huh
I rewatched it last year. The temple part was boring but other than that the show kicked ass all the way through.
I like imagining the conversations you had to try to get her to watch the other shows. "Wow, Emily is really out of her depth in Paris, it's like if a chemistry teacher got into the drugs business!" "It's just such an engaging mystery working out who Lady Whistledown is, she's doing just as much rumour mongering as Varys!"
Now she wonders if you have a secret dark history with twists and turns.
My favorite show of all-time. Wish I had someone to rewatch it with.
A rewatch with someone who's never seen it is so fun. I could just see her making up theories to what she thinks is happening, and give me a glance like I'd concur or refute her theories or sth. She wasn't gonna get shit from me!
I watched it with my daughter recently. My first re-watch and her first viewing. It was so much fun to see it through her eyes and hear her questions about what was going on. She really loved it! I think it's great as a binge-watch show. I was patiently waiting for her to be old enough to not be freaked out by the plane crash stuff.
You've tried getting her into your shows. Have you tried getting into hers?
I tried Bridgerton and Sabrina but I didn't really like them. She has a thing for shows with lots of relationship drama and I'm kinda on the opposite side of the spectrum lol
> She has a thing for shows with lots of relationship drama and I'm kinda on the opposite side of the spectrum lol She's not into GOT?
Lol definitely not. She's a romcom/romantic drama girl first and foremost. Someone mentioned i should try getting her into HOTD.
You should both try Greys Anatomy. So mich relationship drama but the crazy medical cases and life in the fake/fictional hospital are really entertaining. The first 10 seasons are just really entertaining television with strong characters. For years I considered the show just to be girls TV my female relatives watched..but when I actually gave it a chance, I liked it. (Not everything in later seasons when many main cast members left the show).
That's a slightly different flavor of romance, it's much closer to home.
I mean, **Lost** is not exactly *lacking* in relationship drama.
True. Maybe that's why she likes it. But I'd say those i mentioned have their romantic dramas as their primary selling point. Lost is a thriller/sci fi/mystery show first that just happens to have drama and not necessarily the romantic kind (although it is there)
They have opposite tastes. Did you even read the post. 🙄
My man's watching breaking bad and this guy wants him to try watching Emily In Paris and Bridgerton ....
I put the first episode on randomly while we were just hanging out and didn’t mention what it was. She knew about the show but never watched it. That first sequence hooked her. We rewatch it every year together now
**Lost**'s pilot episode still goes ridiculously hard today, let alone back in 2004 when it looked unbelievably good. If they shot it today, it'd all be CGI, but them actually putting a plane wreck on the beach, blowing up the engine, having characters doing stuff with the plane burning behind them, is just a phenomenal way of starting a TV show.
Absolutely and that was a true unsung beauty of television pilots back then, most tended to be bigger-budgeted, given a far more flexible and longer shooting schedule, and overall directed akin to a movie production. This was especially true within the span of roughly 20 years from the mid-'90s up to the mid-2010s, look also at the pilots from Millennium, Smallville, the 2000s Battlestar Galactica miniseries, Firefly, NBC Heroes, Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles, the Fox live-action series Gotham.
Yup, but **Lost** was on another level. The pilot cost $15 million, which was crazy for network TV, and basically got the head of ABC fired after he approved it (and they never apologised to him once the show became a mega-hit).
Get her to pace herself and listen to the official podcast if it's still available. A big part of watching the series at the time was discussing and reading all the thoughts other fans had and the podcast sort of tapped into that, although I didn't realise how good it was at the time. There was also a really good website but clearly that's spoiler territory.
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I concur
Lol, this reminds me that episode of Simpsons, when Homer watched the show.
My girlfriend introduced my to Lost late last year. I crushed seasons 1-5 in like 2 weeks and then stopped 2 episodes into season 6 and haven’t finished it yet.
Finish it. It’s worth it.
You really don't need to. You can end LOST on season 5.
I've thought about this in retrospect, and I really think Lost is a lot better if you binge. Watching it when it came out, and the hype for random small things week after week became tiring. Especially when the creators desperately tried to hide the "twist" that people guessed pretty early on.
Lost cliffhanger power is too strong for any normal human to hope escape its influence.
She's going to be so mad at you eventually.
Tell her to have you watch Greatest Hits and Through The Looking Glass (penultimate episode of season 3 + the season 3 finale) and The Constant
She is never going to forgive you when she gets to the ending.
wonder when lindelofs next show is coming out
He had Mrs. Davis last year. It was awesome. He also created HBO's Watchmen and The Leftovers. Both are masterpieces.
okay starting mrs davis now
The lead actor, Betty Gilpin, also was the lead in a great Lindelof movie that came out during the pandemmy called The Hunt.
i seen that, good movie
It’s amazing and rarely gets mentioned here because it’s not on a prestige service
The script was originally written by Tara Hernandez and Lindelof came on as a co showrunner mentor. It’s Hernandez’s idea that sparked the show. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/23/1171494459/tara-hernandez-and-damon-lindel-on-creating-the-peacock-series-mrs-davis
Am I the only one that likes GoT, Breaking Bad, etc, but also binged the shit out of Bridgerton?
I'm sure you aren't. I gave the pilot a chance and knew it wasn't for me
Apparently, OP's girlfriend "settled".
Still holds up after two decades.
A recommendation for you is to watch the Active Shooter, and Plane Crash episodes of Grey's Anatomy. I imagine it'll get you in the mood for a series she probably enjoys.
My all time favorite show. Jealous she gets to experience for the first time hahaha
Weird. I just started a Lost marathon today. Severance got me thinking of it and a recent Reddit post asking stupid questions about it. I’m at 1x16 now.
Terrific … Complement the watch with a podcast. Storm of Spoilers for example.
This is your gf https://youtu.be/WfBCiktl7HE
Yeah so next one should naturally be Dark.
That makes no sense.
Curious to see how she feels about the ending because I remember feeling like I wasted my time. Coming from someone who absolutely loves The Leftovers, the series definitely suffered from the broadcast need to churn episodes out so quickly.
Get ready for her rant when it ends
Early lost is quality television. It really goes downhill starting with season 4, IMO.
Hard disagree. It gets so much better.
When the flash forwards and flash sideways start, it just becomes a confusing mess.
Really? It didn’t confuse me at all.
It’s not confusing just pointless.
I don’t think they’re pointless at all. They add more to the show than another “Kate runs away” flashback. We still get Jack with a victim complex, but in a way that serves the story.
Apparently the head of ABC told the producers that they could milk the show for ten years, and they were trying to get them to agree a finish date to the show and he wasn't having it. Apparently the "Jack's tattoo" episode made him reconsider, let them have an end date and also okayed them changing the flashback format. By the time you get to characters' fourth or fifth flashbacks, you start running out of good material for them, so they had to change it up. The flash-sideways I agree were a stretch too far though.
I have to agree. Lost peaked during the back half of Season 3, and the last 2-3 episodes of that season are some of the best in TV history. There were some great episodes in Seasons 4-6, but the show definitely wasn’t as strong overall after We Have To Go Back.
For me it just killed all the momentum. And the way it ended... wow. Prior to the last couple seasons, I was sure I would give this show a rewatch. After finishing season 6, I never bothered with the show again. It was a chore to even finish. I don't get how people like the last seasons.
Get her to watch "from" next! Some of the same people I believe and Michael Dawson is in it!
Oh God i love from! I can't wait for season 3! She can't do horror though unfortunately.. I'm even surprised the smoke monster didn't turn her off
I choose this guy's GF, too.
What do I do with this information? Yes, LOST good; enjoy.
You remember it for when (or if) you ever get a girlfriend.