Lost
It's from 2004, before you were born.
- Network
- ABC
- Genre
- Sci-fi mystery
- Premiered
- 2004
- Premise
- plane-crash survivors on a strange island
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About
As of 2026, it's 22 years old.
Lost crashed a plane full of strangers onto a mysterious island in 2004 and spent six seasons piling up questions — a hatch, a smoke monster, mysterious numbers, polar bears in the tropics — that the whole world theorized about obsessively. It was the original weekly water-cooler mystery box.
Whether you believe it stuck the landing remains one of pop culture's eternal arguments, but the grip it had during its run was undeniable and genuinely unprecedented.
Mysterious, addictive, and endlessly debated, Lost is the show that turned a desert island into the biggest collective guessing game television ever played.
Lost season by season
Lost ran for 6 seasons (2004–2010) across 118 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
