Eps 4 and 5 are available. Obv The even episodes are going to be more current in terms of the timeline while the odds will be more reflections of previous times. Fwiw E4 was far more interesting than E2. Still prefer the origin or backstories but E4 was good

Some good poker action in the latest episode of Yellowstone.

I was inspired to start watching Lost after finishing the 1st season of La Brea. So far I've just watched 7 episodes of Lost and it will probably take me a long long time to get through it but what I will say is that my expectations were La Brea level and those have been greatly surpassed.

Lost feels like a bigger budget, better acting, better screenplay, pretty much better everything and I'm not even sure it's all that good.

It's a truly terrible show but I'm at a complete loss as to why you haven't been enjoying it.

Actually, La Brea is the first non-reality network show I've seen in about that long. It's truly awful in just about every way possible, yet I've been completely satisfied with my viewing experience.

The dialogue and acting are so terrible. I figured they were going back to the old tried and true network formula of sacrificing quality by pumping out as many episodes as possible. Lost had 25 episodes its first season, but that was probably the norm back then.

I was watching the show Chucky concurrently with La Brea. Chucky, which is obviously superior to La Brea in just about every way, does pretty low cable ratings and what I really couldn't understand is how the child actors in Chucky are way less terrible at acting than just about everyone on La Brea. La Brea has quite a large cast and there's maybe like 3 good/decent actors in the entire show.

Can't say enough good things about Dopesick and The Other Two.

Why are you comparing the two? One is the biggest and probably the most culturally significant network show of 00's, other is, well, La Brea. Sure, Lost had some mediocre moments (first half of season 3 comes to mind) and kind of collapsed under its own weight in the end, but there's a reason it ran for 6 seasons and had 23+ million weekly viewers during its peak. The show was absolutely huge (probably only matched by the later seasons of GoT) and everybody was talking about it/theorizing. And that was before the age of streaming. I would say if The Sopranos paved the way for what cable can do, Lost did the same for network television.

You seem to be vastly overrating Lost's popularity. Not a single season of Lost finished in the top 10 in TV ratings. The highest ratings it received were in season 1 where it ranked 13th. After that it finished 18th, 22nd, 20th, 29th, and 24th.

Sopranos not only paved the way for what cable can do, but also what streaming services can do as well. As for Lost paving the way for what network television can do...what exactly can network television do? Not much at all. It can do La Brea.

The biggest thing about was the production value compared to the contemporaries; the pilot episode rivalled triple-A blockbusters of the same period and remained high. Additionally, nobody had really done that kind of non-linear and overarching storytelling before on network TV. Before Lost, most shows might've had a general plot for a season, but more often than not, episodes were self-contained. Lost changed that in a way that everything was intertwined and the creators built a universe full of mysteries which kept people tuning in (hoping for payoffs, lol). That was actually one of its main disadvantages in the pre-streaming era as it made the show very inaccessible to new viewers and missing even a single episode could throw you completely off the loop. But that's an entirely different topic.

All in all, for a first-time viewer now it might be difficult to see how it was revolutionary during its original run because the same thing has been done better since then (e.g. one of the showrunners created The Leftovers), but it's definitely a pioneer.

Clearly Lost was a very ambitious show with high production value. Clearly La Brea was only ambitious in its marketing as the show itself seems to have very low production value. I'm truly amazed to read that La Brea cost $70 million to create, or $7 million an episode. That's less than the top streaming shows today but is still a huge number for a show that looks like a kid produced it on his cell phone.

The best thing related to Lost is The Leftovers.

Yellowjackets is getting a lot better, which in turn is making it infinitely more annoying that it’s a week to week show.....

The possibilities for casting in season 2 could make for some Tarantino level career-reigniting since it seems to be quite popular!

I actually gave up on Station Eleven after ep 4. Just seemed incredibly slow and self-important. It's too bad I liked the novel and the first ep was excellent. Don't care about anyone in the travelling theater troupe, if the Prophet character returns perhaps it would add some narrative steam but I gave up waiting for something to happen.

E5 essentially reveals the prophet and implies that his path will be a big part of the arc of the show FWIW

So far I like 1883. Narration is a little clunky but the daughter is smoking hot.

Just finished Gloria on Netflix. Believe someone here recommended it when I asked about foreign shows.

It is a Cold War spy drama set in Portugal. Was good. Enjoyed it. Probably 7.5/10.

A couple notes for the crowd:

Resident Alien S2 premiere 1/26 on SyFy.

Also, Dirty Jobs is coming back to Discovery, new show 1/9.

I will add a few:

1/7 Search Party Season 5, final season HBO
1/9 Righteous Gemstones Season 2
1/14 Ray Donovan Movie
1/21 Ozark
1/23 Billions

Also 1/15 All seasons of Fringe on HBO Max. It's been on my watch list forever.

Holy ****.... aside from Ray Donovan, all of those are eagerly anticipated by me!! Same with Cobra Kai which I haven’t started yet lol

Haven’t had this many things to watch at once in awhile......

fringe had some really fun parts. like i was really into it. but it got so bad that i just quit watching. don't know what happened in the end

fringe brought me back to network television, then after a few seasons reminded me exactly why i had grown to loathe network television

they tried upping the stakes and turning it from fun investigations of the week to a ham fisted the world will end unless two randos do x, y, & z

i actually liked when they started doing some more continuity between episodes but then it jumped the shark real bad when that became sole focus

Good ones. There's also Euphoria returning this week. Solid show IMO.

I remember liking season 1 and then what I thought was season 2 came out and it was different and stopped watching right away. But I guess that was just a few special episodes and the real season 2 is starting this week.

Gemstones is so so good

never see anyone mentioning Snowfall ITT except me i dont think

i really like it and season 5 comes out next month i believe.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6439752/

I have talked about it, I think there was some good drama in the final few episodes of last season. It's good.

Great episode of Dexter: New Blood tonight, even though Deb being a buzz kill. It's getting better every episode, season finale next week.