Lost

One of the season's biggest hits is scary, absorbing and thought-provoking | Gene Edward Veith

One of the biggest hits of the new TV season is ABC's Lost, a drama about 48 people stranded on a desert island. This is not to be confused with the game show Survivor, much less the goofy Gilligan's Island. Lost is scary, absorbing, and thought-provoking.

The show begins with a man in a suit waking up to find himself in a jungle. That establishes a theme that goes back to one of the very first novels, Robinson Crusoe, and that has continued to resurface ever since: What would we modern, sophisticated, technology-dependent people do if suddenly we lost all of the props from our civilization?

It might have been easier for Robinson Crusoe to do it alone, and then with his faithful companion Friday, than for a modern group of 48 people from various nationalities, personality types, and walks of life.

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October 16, 2004, Vol. 19, No. 40

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