Varied reactions to the Lost finale

27 September 2006 Rob Buckley US TV 2 Comments

Lost, C4

“On the surface it’s good TV: glamorous, gripping, addictive even. That’s precisely the problem […] Lost is crack TV.”

Sam Wollaston, The Guardian

Lost, C4

“It should have run one season at most, at which span its empty enigmas and casual indifference to its own inventions might not have been quite so obvious.”

Thomas Sutcliffe, The Independent

Lost, C4

“There’s a real stirring sense of the writers letting their imaginations fly.”

James Walton, The Daily Telegraph

Lost, C4

“Lost has become the pub bore of the TV schedules, propping up the bar whenever you happen to be channel-surfing, forcing you to take swift avoidance action when you spot it.”

Joe Joseph, The Times

Lost, C4

“The longer Lost limps on for, the more viewers it will lose for the simple reason that, as Phineas T. Barnum said, you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

Matt Baylis, Daily Express & Daily Mail

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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