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Daily Mirror
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Netflix fans have days to watch 'best show ever written' before it leaves platform
It has a huge fan following Netflix fans have just days to watch the 'best show ever written' before it leaves the platform. Sci-fi thriller Lost, is considered one of the biggest television series ever made. For some time now, fans have been able to rediscover the title or binge it for the first time thanks to its inclusion in the major streamer's library. However, as long time subscribers will be all too aware of, Netflix's offering is always changing. While this usually means exciting new additions, it also means titles no longer being made available. This is often due to agreements expiring between production companies and studios. In the most recent case, all seasons of Lost are set to be removed from Netflix on August 14. This is the case for every region around the globe with the exception for the US. It is reported that users stateside will be able to stream episodes until 2026. So if fans want to be binge all six seasons of Lost on Netflix, they have a limited time to do it. UK users do have alternative options however, as at the time of writing the show is currently available to watch for free on ITVX. However, of course streaming on the broadcaster's platform means that viewers will be forced to watch alongside advertisement breaks. That's not all though as Lost's run of 121 episodes is also available on Disney+. Users will need a premium subscription for that option though. It could be a viable option for those who want to experience what many consider as one of the best shows ever made. While it is full of mystery, twists and turns, the show's synopsis states it follows "the survivors of a plane crash who find themselves stranded on a mysterious island. They are forced to work together for their survival when they realise that they are not alone on the island." Overall the show boasts an 86% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and Empire magazine listed it as the 13th best show of all time out of 100. It was co-created by Star Wars director J. J. Abrams, filmmaker Damon Lindelof who went on to make The Leftovers and Watchmen plus screenwriter Jeffrey Lieber. Fans are still just as vocal with their praise of the show. One sharing their thoughts online simply posted: "One of the best shows of all time. Very rewatchable" Another added: "One of the most mysterious, magical shows ever presented. nearly every episode came up with new, often mind blowing, twist that left me totally transfixed and begging for more. I hated seeing it end." Someone else commented: "Lost is an absolutely amazing series right from the beginning to end. It is like a perfect blend of of sci-fi and supernatural thriller. There's not even a single episode which is not thrilling or engaging. It was really atmospheric to watch this especially at nights. A true thriller, a real mystery masterpiece." Meanwhile, one person said: "I love it!! I've seen a lot of TV shows but this one is different. I think is one of the best shows ever written."
Yahoo
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
‘One of the things that made it so special was that it wasn't for everyone': ‘The Leftovers' EPs and cast on the show's legacy
Damon Lindelof is the first to admit that The Leftovers was a bit of a hard sell for mass audiences. The critically acclaimed show, which ran for three seasons from 2014 to 2017 on HBO, attracted a devoted, passionate but relatively small fan base, who were drawn in by the haunting exploration of grief and its aftermath. More from GoldDerby David E. Kelley on the secret of his prolific career: 'Don't ever assume you're smarter than the audience' 'I'm glad I'm still alive': Jon Hamm and John Slattery on 'Mad Men,' 10 years later 'King of the Hill' cast and creators on revival: 'Bobby's got a little bit of fame and a little bit of swagger' Lindelof reunited with executive producers Tom Perrotta (whose novel inspired the series) and Mimi Leder and cast members Carrie Coon (Nora), Amy Brenneman (Laurie), and Ann Dowd (Patti) at the ATX TV Festival in Austin to "reheat" The Leftovers, sharing their first impressions of each other and the series, the most 'terrifying' scene, and the show's lasting legacy. Lindelof revealed he was nervous before his first meeting with Perrotta. 'It was a job interview in a lot of ways, but you just completely and totally put me at ease, and by the end of the meeting, that was the beginning of the next five years of our lives,' said Lindelof. As a fan of Lost, Perrotta said he felt like it was a 'blind date' — 'because what does he think of me?' he recalled wondering. 'And then what I remember feeling was, this guy has the quickest mind that I have encountered and I'm going to have to really be on my toes.' ('Somewhere my wife and son are laughing,' quipped Lindelof.) SEERemembering 'The Leftovers': Why do Emmy voters hate TV's best show so much? Dowd said she wasn't impressed when she first read the script. 'I thought it was ridiculous,' she said. 'And I can tell you I have never loved a character more. I thought, 'Well, what's gonna happen if I'm not talking?' I can't believe the power you have in your room when you're not speaking. Everybody is waiting for you to do what you're going to do. I loved her. It took me a minute but only a minute.' Brenneman said she had 'whiplash' from the transition from her far more glamorous role on Private Practice. 'Damon said, 'Here are the reasons you shouldn't take this job: It shoots in New York, you can't wear any makeup, and you have no lines,' she recalled. laughing. But she said yes because 'I like new things. I don't think I've ever seen this, and you seem to be making it up on the fly.' For Coon, she said it was her first 'real job,' having done mostly theater and some commercials at that point in her career. 'I had no idea what was going to happen and I remember learning several years after the show ended that because I come from the theater and you respect the writer, I was the only actor on the show who wasn't constantly emailing and asking questions,' she said. 'I would just get the script and then I would do it. I still don't do it.' Joked Brenneman, 'That's why you work a lot.' Leder was brought on for the fifth episode, which happened to be the stoning episode. 'How am I going to direct this and not kill the actor?' she worried. (The answer: CGI rocks.) From there, though, she came on board as an executive producer to pursue 'the meaning of life, miracle of life. And I'm still in search of it.' 'You can make a TV show or a movie and it can be really good. But this was making this big beautiful baby that touched everybody's soul,' she said. 'If there's a theme it's that there is so much loss and we continue on. And we live with our loss and our grief we have beautiful lives sometimes.' Lindelof credited Perrotta with the idea of moving the show to Texas for the second season. 'Tom had the initial idea for a town where no one departed in Season 1,' he said. 'And when he pitched the idea, all the writers were like, that idea is so good, we can't burn out the four-week story. So it just sort of sat there in the back of our heads. And when the first season ended, we all sort of really good about this. This was the ending of the novel, we could just end it here. Let's not double down' But then HBO ordered a second season, and the ideas that had been percolating came to the forefront, including Perrotta's pitch for a place that had been protected from the Departure. 'The show ended up dealing with so many different ideas, and it's ultimately, I think, about faith,' said Perrotta. 'But I think for me, it was about randomness and the way people make sense of a random universe. What meaning does Nora derive from what happened to her? What kind of meaning do they derive from their protected status as they perceive it? What does it mean for Nora and her family to show up there?' For her part, Dowd was thrilled about Season 2 — because 'Patti got to talk,' she said. But when she asked Lindelof why, he gave an elliptical answer. 'I think ghosts are more interesting when they're annoyed,' he told her. (Dowd would go on to earn the show's lone Emmy nomination for guest actress in the show's third and final season.) The second season also allowed more joy and warmth and humor to infiltrate the show, recalled Brenneman. 'What I always loved about this premise was something unexplained happens and people have all sorts of responses,' she said. 'Some people go to a faith place, some people go to a nihilistic place, some people crack jokes, some people weep. It gives you a range of things that I feel like we accessed more and more.' Coon recalled her pivotal Season 2 episode, when she went face-to-face with Regina King, administrating the questionnaire. 'I've often said I've only been intimidated two times and that's Holly Hunter and David Thewlis,' she said. 'But that's not true because I was scared of Regina. I was scared of Regina because she's so uniformly excellent. But then you work with her and you realize that the work she has done to get there is in her bones. She's one of the best listeners I've ever worked with.' The scene 'was extraordinary and it was terrifying,' said Coon. 'And it was really a scene that people call back to it a lot when they talk about the show. My makeup artist remembers just the eyelash on my face,' she said. 'But they didn't want to stop the scene.' And the other famous scene that they all debated was Laurie's near-suicide. 'When Laurie went into the water, scuba diving, we as writers were absolutely and totally convinced at the time that we wrote that episode that she was dead,' recalled Lindelof. 'But then everybody was super depressed, and we couldn't generate ideas. 'Finally I walked into Tom's office and I said, 'I think Lori is still alive.' And he was like, 'Thank god, because we've all been talking about it.' That was a case of the show just out and out rejecting something that we were trying to force onto it.' Finally, Lindelof grew emotional talking about the audience's response in the packed Paramount Theater in Austin. 'All I ever wanted to do for a living was tell stories because I was inspired by the stories that were told to me,' he said. 'As proud as I am of the collaborative efforts that remain on other things that I've worked on, this is the one that is the closest to my heart. And one of the things that made it so special was that it wasn't for everyone. So much of the work that we all do and are asked to do is to make it as accessible to as many people as possible. And that isn't to say that we were purposefully trying to exclude people, but what we were after was going to be challenging. The first season in many ways is like, 'Stop f--king watching. You have to lean in. This is going to be a show that's about suffering, and then it's going to be about what people need to do to overcome it or live with it.' And so the idea that there is a theater filled with human beings who understand that and tolerate that and appreciate that, it truly means the world to us.' 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Irish Independent
30-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
‘Lost' star Matthew Fox breaks silence on finale: ‘People who were frustrated by lack of answers are missing the point'
The actor played heroic spinal surgeon Jack Shephard on the ABC series that follows survivors of Oceanic Flight 815, whose plane crashed on a mysterious island. Lost became a ratings winner on its release in 2004, and over six seasons generated a cult fanbase to rival that of Star Trek and The X-Files. Fox, who this week returns to TV in Kick Gurry's Australian comedy show Caught, has now reflected on his time in Lost during a rare interview with The Independent. 'I've never actually watched the show all the way through – I've seen episodes,' the 58-year-old said. 'At that time in my life, I was not keen on watching myself on screen. I felt like it was somehow going to corrupt my work.' That was clearly Damon Lindelof's intention. He wanted it to be something that could be interpreted by every single person's relationship with the show Fox's character was at the centre of some of the show's biggest twists and turns, and the actor recalled how he would be blindsided by such developments while speaking to the show's co-creator Damon Lindelof ahead of each season. 'I would always have a conversation with Damon at the beginning of each year and he'd sort of map out Jack's arc,' he said. 'He wasn't mapping that out for me to get notes – he was just mapping that out, kinda like, 'This is what your journey's gonna be'. And inevitably, there'd be stuff coming along in the script, because he hadn't given me a beat-by-beat play-out of the season, where I'd be like, 'Woah, holy shit – that's a turn that I didn't see coming'. And all kinds of other storylines I wasn't involved in.' He said he had faith in The Leftovers and Watchmen creator Lindelof's vision, stating: 'I trusted it was all gonna work out and it was all gonna make sense.' The show's finale, which aired in May 2010, led to many incorrect assumptions about the fate of the ensemble. ADVERTISEMENT Learn more While the ending has its supporters, some viewers decried the fact that some key questions were not answered, which has made it one of the most divisive conclusions to a show in TV history, but Fox counts himself as a fan. 'That was clearly Damon Lindelof's intention. He wanted it to be something that could be interpreted by every single person's relationship with the show,' he said. 'The people that were frustrated by the fact they weren't given the answers to why there was a polar bear on the island are missing the point a little bit. 'But for them to believe that six years of mysteries and asking questions were going to be wrapped up in the final two hours of the show, or even the last half of the last season – that's not how Damon wanted to do it.' With the way streaming works and the way you can find these shows on these platforms, there are new groups of people coming to the show constantly Fox, whose other credits include the Wachowskis adventure Speed Racer and violent Western Bone Tomahawk, said his feelings about the show remind him of his children as he and his wife Margherita Ronchi relocated to Hawaii when they were much younger. 'For me, when I look back on it now, it feels like a chapter in my life where the thing I remember the most about it is where our kids were during that period of time,' he said. 'When we went to Hawaii, they were really young – our son was two and our daughter was eight – and they were moving from southern California to an island in the South Pacific. It was almost a foundational part of their life, and so that's mainly how I reflect on it.' However, he acknowledged the 'legacy of the show is pretty incredible' and said he is continually 'blown away' by the fan response. 'I do think it's a show that will stand up over time,' he said. 'Considering where it takes place and what it's really about philosophically, it feels like it doesn't get dated quickly. I'm so grateful to have had the experience. 'With the way streaming works and the way you can find these shows on these platforms, there are new groups of people coming to the show constantly, and I think that's going to continue. There are new people finding it all the time.'
Yahoo
29-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Matthew Fox shares thoughts on divisive Lost ending in rare interview about hit series
Matthew Fox has issued rare comments on the hit US drama Lost, 15 years after it ended. The actor played heroic spinal surgeon Jack Shephard on the ABC series that follows survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 whose plane crashed on a mysterious island. Lost became a ratings winner upon its release in 2004 and, over six seasons, generated a cult fanbase to rival that of Star Trek and The X-Files. Fox, who this week returns to TV in Kick Gurry's Australian comedy show Caught, has now reflected on his time starring in Lost during a rare interview with The Independent. 'I've never actually watched the show all the way through – I've seen episodes,' the actor, 58, admitted. 'At that time in my life, I was not keen on watching myself on screen. I felt like it was somehow going to corrupt my work. I don't really feel as intensely now about that as I did.' Fox's character was at the centre of some of the show's biggest twists and turns, and the actor recalled how he'd be blindsided by such developments while speaking to the show's co-creator Damon Lindelof ahead of each season. 'I would always have a conversation with Damon at the beginning of each year and he'd sort of map out Jack's arc for the season. 'He wasn't mapping that out for me to get notes; he was just mapping that out, kinda like, 'This is what your journey's gonna be.' And inevitably, there'd be stuff coming along in the script, 'cause he hadn't given me a beat-by-beat play out of the season, where I'd be like, 'Woah, holy s*** – that's a turn that I didn't see coming.' And all kinds of other storylines I wasn't involved in. He said he had 'faith' in The Leftovers and Watchmen creator Lindelof's vision, stating: 'I trusted that it was all gonna work out and it was all gonna make sense.' The show's finale, which aired in May 2010, led to many incorrect assumptions about the fate of the show's ensemble. While the ending has its supporters, some viewers decried the fact that some key questions weren't answered, which has made it one of the most divisive conclusions to a show in TV history. But Fox counts himself as a fan. 'That was clearly Damon Lindelof's intention. He wanted it to be something that could be interpreted by every single person's relationship with the show. The people that were frustrated by the fact they weren't given the answers to why there was a polar bear on the island are missing the point a little bit. 'But for them to believe that six years of mysteries and asking questions were going to be wrapped up in the final two hours of the show, or even the last half of the last season – that's not how Damon wanted to do it' Fox, whose other credits include the Wachowskis adventure Speed Racer and violent Western Bone Tomahawk, said that his feelings about the show remind him of his children as he and his wife Margherita Ronchi relocated to Hawaii when they were much younger 'For me, when I look back on it now, it feels like a chapter in my life where the thing I remember the most about it is where our kids were during that period of time. 'When we went to Hawaii, they were really young – our son was two and our daughter was eight – and they were moving from southern California to an island in the South Pacific. So they're still really connected to that place. It was almost a foundational part of their life and so that's mainly how I reflect on it.' However, he acknowledged that the 'legacy of the show is pretty incredible' and said he is continually 'blown away' by the fan response. 'I do think it's a show that will stand up over time,' he said. 'Considering where it takes place and what it's really about philosophically, it feels like it doesn't get dated quickly. I'm so grateful to have had the experience. It was great and I'm glad people are still finding it. 'With the way streaming works and the way you can find these shows on these platforms, there are new groups of people coming to the show constantly and I think that's going to continue. There are new people finding it all the time.' Caught is released on ITVX on 1 June. Lost is also available to stream on ITVX as well as Netflix and Disney+.
Yahoo
17-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
28 Years Later's Trailer Shows A Terrifyingly Weird World Most Zombie Movies Don't
It's probably fair to say that zombie movies and TV shows have something of a pattern. There's an outbreak, we cut to years later when only a few survive, then follow a small band of survivors who get stuck on the roof of a mall. I think that's about 90 percent of them. Which is why the complete weirdness featured in the latest trailer for 28 Years Later is so incredibly welcome. One of the greatest TV shows ever made was Damon Lindelof's 2014 series The Leftovers. Where many shows have previously covered the territory of large numbers of people mysteriously vanishing, In The Leftovers, two percent of the Earth's population inexplicably vanished in a single moment. The program was set two years later, focusing on a small New York community, exploring the repercussions of this event. And it was weird. It was rooted in the unknown, in the lack of an explanation, and the consequences on society, whether it was the formation of deeply peculiar cults, or the personal trauma of losing loved ones. But also, other stuff: dogs were turning feral, deer became less timid, and there was this one waterfall... I bring this up because it's that same vibe of humanity's spiraling into strangeness that seems most key to this new footage from 28 Years Later. Rather than exploring the horror of the immediate zombie apocalypse, here director Danny Boyle seems to be using the three-decades-on approach to envisage a society that's known little else, and the bizarre, uncomfortable, and spiritual effects this has had on people. Plus, you know, people running away from brain-hungry undeads. The movie is out on June 20, so there's still a fair amount of waiting to do. But this is looking like it could be something very interesting. . For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
