Life After Lost-what shows to watch??

mkeano

I am really sad Lost is ending and I'll be even more disappointed if they don't give us answers but with no hopes of spin offs from Lost and with other shows like 24 being cancelled. What shows do you think are worth watching?

Flashforward? V? Stargate Universe? A new series?

Flashforward seemed like it was being prepared to plug the hole Lost would leave with two Lost actors being used Charlie and Penny. Lots of mystery and flashbacks in there along with the bus driver from Intermission but I haven't been able to get into it and I wanted too.

V likewise has a Lost alumni, Juliet...whom I like! But again, don't feel any connection or chemistry with the show.

Stargate Universe has promise and has a good character focus which I personally found helped Lost become so compeling.

Anyway, are there other shows out there people can recommend?

bob2oo7

mkeano wrote: »

I am really sad Lost is ending and I'll be even more disappointed if they don't give us answers but with no hopes of spin offs from Lost and with other shows like 24 being cancelled. What shows do you think are worth watching?

Flashforward? V? Stargate Universe? A new series?

Flashforward seemed like it was being prepared to plug the hole Lost would leave with two Lost actors being used Charlie and Penny. Lots of mystery and flashbacks in there along with the bus driver from Intermission but I haven't been able to get into it and I wanted too.

V likewise has a Lost alumni, Juliet...whom I like! But again, don't feel any connection or chemistry with the show.

Stargate Universe has promise and has a good character focus which I personally found helped Lost become so compeling.

Anyway, are there other shows out there people can recommend?

Flashforward starting so promisingly.. but in the end its absoutely brutal

I recommend

24 (first few seasons.. but then you will need to watch the rest)
The Sopranos and The Wire (best TV shows in History)
Oz

conor.hogan.2

Stargate universe - pretty much it as regards to tv shows to watch.

Nollog

I recommend Castle if you like crime drama's.
It has Nathan Fillion and everything!

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Deadwood - absolutely ****ing fantastic show, only got 3 seasons but still well ahead of most other shows in terms of quality

Kings - only got one series, which is a serious godwaful ****ing shame but it was a great show. Modern (like, tanks and guns and stuff) take on the biblical storyof king david, set in an alternate universe where the USA is a monarchy. Like I said,only got one season.. but you'll watch it several times, everything about it was quality.

someone else mentioned The Wire, seriously if you haven't watched this show yet..shame on you.


the new Battlestar Galactica, brilliant show. Suffers a little bit from the same wishy washy 'making **** up as we go along' bull**** that seems to have crippled lost, but even with that dragging it down there are few weak episodes and the plot doesn't suffer too much.

Irish Guitarist

I think Fringe is great. It was created by J.J Abrams and the best way I can describe it is a kind of cross between Lost and the X Files. If you haven't already seen it you should try watching it from the beginning or it won't make sense. Personally I think it's better than Lost but that's just my opinion.

mkeano

I like the sound of Kings as described above. The BBC announced yesterday that they are launching a new sci fi epic show called Outcast about human colonists on an alien planet. Sounds promising. Jamie Bamber aka Apollo from the new Battlestar Galactica is one of the stars.

Also...when is this Live Action Star Wars series ever going to come out, it was promised years ago and is always down as in development on IMDB

20goto10

Something with an f'ing story line and plot!!

The only other show I like is Mad Men. Not sure that has a plot either but you gotta love the 60's! Getting locked at work, sexist remarks, riding the secretaries, wild office parties. Man, where did it all go wrong?

techno-allah

I'll highly endorse The Sopranos, The Wire & Deadwood as mentioned earlier. Easily three of the greatest TV shows ever.

Deadwood actually has had a fair amount of it's main cast in supporting roles in Lost. Even the Man In Black is a main character.

To the list I'll add the wonderful Breaking Bad. Stars Bryan Cranston of Malcolm In The Middle fame as a lowly paid chemistry teacher with terminal cancer who makes a decision to cook and sell crystal meth in order to leave his family with money when he goes. One of the best dramas currently still going extremely dark dark humour.

Dexter is certainly worth a watch. Season 3 is absolutely awful but season 4 is probably it's best.

As for others...

Mad Men
Six Feet Under
Californication

Fear not, there's plenty to keep you occupied, most less likely to make you want to pull out your own hair as well like Lost.

mkeano

techno-allah wrote: »

Fear not, there's plenty to keep you occupied, most less likely to make you want to pull out your own hair as well like Lost.

I have little hair left after the last episode!! What makes it so disappointing is that it promised to be so great and amazing and just was so flat. If they aren't going to explain the island, they would have been better off not having a mythology episode. Anyway don't want this thread to turn into another thread on Across the Sea.

24 was another show which i loved but also made me tear my hair out!! How many times has there been a mole in the CTU or the government been corrupted? Even though I like it I'm glad they cancelled it and will go down the movie route. Will breathe new life into the franchise.

Anybody think there will be any Lost books within a year to further delve into the island mythology and deal with all those scratched out names on the cave and in the lighthouse. There are so many additional stories that could be told after that revelation..in addition to the Ancient Eygptians who constructed the statue and the temple, the Dharma Initiative and the US Army in the 1950s etc

FutureGuy

The updated Battlestar Galactica series. Superb character-driven series. Honestly, probably the best show I have watched in the last 5 years. The pilot is about 2.5 hours long and can be bought seperaterly in HMV on the cheap. If you like that (and despite it being lenghty, it has plenty of intelligent twists), then you can pick up all 4 seasons for a good bargain.

Fringe is also great TV, and also created by JJ.

The Wire is meant to be brilliant also.

jimbling

Absolute Best:
The Wire
The Sopranoes

Second Tier:
Battlestar Galactica (this would be in the first tier if not for the last season... bit like lost eh)
Deadwood
Dexter
Six Feet Under
The West Wing
The Shield


Third Tier
24 (season 1 and 2... I gave up on season 3, same thing every time)
True Blood (still early days, but enjoyable so far)
Breaking Bad
Shameless
Oz (only started into this, just finished the first series... quality, and I heard it gets better... so it will prob move to tier two)

Short, fun and very enjoyable
Modern Family
Californication
Entourage
Weeds (first few seasons anyway)

Right, so that's what I can think of right now.


EDIT: Added The Shield and Modern Family

tunguska

mkeano wrote: »

I am really sad Lost is ending and I'll be even more disappointed if they don't give us answers but with no hopes of spin offs from Lost and with other shows like 24 being cancelled. What shows do you think are worth watching?

Flashforward? V? Stargate Universe? A new series?

Flashforward seemed like it was being prepared to plug the hole Lost would leave with two Lost actors being used Charlie and Penny. Lots of mystery and flashbacks in there along with the bus driver from Intermission but I haven't been able to get into it and I wanted too.

V likewise has a Lost alumni, Juliet...whom I like! But again, don't feel any connection or chemistry with the show.

Stargate Universe has promise and has a good character focus which I personally found helped Lost become so compeling.

Anyway, are there other shows out there people can recommend?

Yeah Im also gutted that Lost is ending. I know it gets a lot of stick for being cunfusing or whatever but I can honestly say that its been one of the greatest things Ive ever seen on tv. I'll miss it a lot.
As for other shows..........I cant think of anything. 24 maybe, but thats also ending. Doesnt look like theres anything on the horizon either. Hopefully the world cup will keep us occupied until something decent comes along

Rob30888

Fringe or else the criminally under-rated Dollhouse.

jArgHA

I recommend going on a David Simon binge and watching:

* Generation Kill (6 part series based on US soldiers in the Gulf War based on the writings of a reporter for Rolling Stone magazine)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0995832/

* The Wire, my all time favourite TV show
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0306414/

* The Corner, 6 part precursor to The Wire, hard hitting drama. I would recommend watching this after The Wire as it is not the easiest watching but will probably be more appreciated if you become a Wire nut
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224853/

There is a new show written by David Simon, called "Treme", but I haven't watched any of it yet so can't comment on it.

Psychedelic

What's the deal with Battlestar Galactica, it sounds like a good show from the amount of praise it receives, but it just looks like Star Trek to me, which I hate. It's not all that crappy Star Trek sci-fi stuff is it, i.e. stupid looking aliens and so on?

Is it like Lost, does it have good mysteries and WTF moments? Does it have a long storyline that goes over all the seasons, or is each episode resolved at the end of the episode?

FutureGuy

Psychedelic wrote: »

What's the deal with Battlestar Galactica, it sounds like a good show from the amount of praise it receives, but it just looks like Star Trek to me, which I hate. It's not all that crappy Star Trek sci-fi stuff is it, i.e. stupid looking aliens and so on?

Psychedelic wrote: »

Is it like Lost, does it have good mysteries and WTF moments? Does it have a long storyline that goes over all the seasons, or is each episode resolved at the end of the episode?

The only similarity with Star Trek is that it's set in space. That's it really. I can understand you might easily draw similarities based on that one fact, but if you let that hamper your judgement, you'll miss some excellent tv. Many of the people I know who love BSG actually hate Star Trek.

It's not about space, or crazy monsters...it's about the characters and their troubles during, (lets just say) difficult times. There are some characters, such as Gaius Baltar, who are in my top characters ever list


There are no "aliens" in it. Give the pilot a look and see what you think.

One or two people said it suffers from lack of time in the final season and they were heavily disrupted by the writers strike, but they ended it pretty well.

jimbling

Psychedelic wrote: »

What's the deal with Battlestar Galactica, it sounds like a good show from the amount of praise it receives, but it just looks like Star Trek to me, which I hate. It's not all that crappy Star Trek sci-fi stuff is it, i.e. stupid looking aliens and so on?

Is it like Lost, does it have good mysteries and WTF moments? Does it have a long storyline that goes over all the seasons, or is each episode resolved at the end of the episode?

No, it's awesome, and some extremely hot , looking robots instead of goofy aliens.

It's a great show. Yes, it's mysterious and has strange things going on, but it boils down to Humans vs Machine for the most part.

It has a long storyline and you wouldn't want to be skipping episodes. The first 3 seasons are brilliant television.

I am not a star trek fan either, although I did like the recent movie.... BSG is far superior to any star trek series I've ever seen....although to be fair, I never got into star trek.... but I got into BSG immediately. Just download the 2 hour pilot, you'll quickly decide if it's your sort of thing or not.

Sad Professor

BSG was the anti-Star Trek if anything. Moore frequently used Trek (which he worked on for years) as the template for what NOT to do in BSG. However, I wouldn't say it bears no resemblance to Trek. It's certainly nothing like "traditional" Trek such as TNG. But it is a lot like DS9 (which was the anti-Star Trek as well) and suffers from a lot of the same flaws as that show did.

BSG was a fantastic show. In terms of directing, acting and production values it was often second to none and superior to Lost. The writing sometimes let it down though, never more so than in the finale. However, I would still 100 percent recommend it.

It is not quite as serialised as Lost. More arc-based.

redfacedbear

Breaking Bad and Brotherhood are 2 programmes that I intend to seek out.

I've seen S1 of Breaking Bad on FX - it really was excellent. The final series of Brotherhood is about to begin on the same channel - but I've missed the previous seasons so I'll have to find them before I watch it.

Psychedelic

Cheers lads, I'll give the BSG pilot a look and go from there.

Just to give my own recommendations for other shows:

The Wire: can't recommend this highly enough, it's just essential viewing.

The Prisoner (2009): finished watching this short mini-series recently, only 6 or 7 episodes long, can be hard to follow and is very strange at times, well worth a watch if you like a good head****.

The Pacific: 10-part series set in the Pacific during WWII, can be a bit boring at times but watch it for the amazing action sequences, especially in the latter half of the series.

RolandIRL

i wouldn't recommend fringe (it's very episodic and squeezes the main plot into 3/4 episodes in the season - very unlike Lost!).
someone above mentioned V but i find it to be very predictable and unoriginal. not worth it imo

stargate universe, BSG and true blood are all favourites of mine.
you don't need to have seen any of the previous stargate series to know what's going. SGU tends to focus more on the character development than anything else.
BSG is just awesome and it's nothing like star trek imo.
true blood is excellent and it's almost told like a novel (no filler episodes, i think)

i'd recommend FlashForward but the fact that's it's cancelled means you don't want to see a cliffhanger ending and not know how things end.

corryworry

Flashforward and Heroes cancelled ..... what a shame ...... well if they hadn't got really crap it'd be a shame!
Can you imagine if Lost had gotten cancelled, how would we ever find out what all the answers are .... i'm sure we'll know all the answers after the finale
I don't know anything that i'll be watching instead of Lost, hopefully JJ Abrams goes back to the drawing board to think up something as fantastic as Lost (cause he didn't do that wit Fringe if you ask me!) hopefully starring Terry O'Quinn cause he's the one i'll miss the most.

Kettle316

The Shield - If you haven't watched it yet thats the show to get into when lost is over!! 6 series and its hard to pick 1 bad episode its that good!! I dont care what any1 says its much better than the wire!!

True Blood - Like vampires?? Like lots of boobs?? This is the show for you!!

Modern Family - 1 of the funniest things on the telly at the minute!! its awesome!!

cooker3

I'm in the minority here but BSG just never really did it for me. I wanted 3/4 of the cast dead after about 6 episodes and well I guess I'll put tags on this

Moore didn't have the balls to kill anyone of importance off until the final season

I found it very hard to give a crap about any of them..and I hated the religious stuff.

But as I said I'm in the minority so should likely try the pilot anyway!

Dexter and west wing are must watch though imo. Awesome tv.

jimbling

Kettle316 wrote: »

The Shield - If you haven't watched it yet thats the show to get into when lost is over!! 6 series and its hard to pick 1 bad episode its that good!! I dont care what any1 says its much better than the wire!!

Modern Family - 1 of the funniest things on the telly at the minute!! its awesome!!

Can't believe I forgot about The Shield. I watched all 7 seasons of it

It's definitely up there in Tier 2 as well... really really got into it. Especially the first 5 series.

And Modern Family.... Absolute best comedy on TV at the moment.

The guy

I'm going to start watching Breaking bad and the wire, I heard great things about both of them.

Sea Sharp

If you want good intelligent story-lines I'd suggest looking into Japanese animes.
Neon Genesis Evangellion & Death Note are the best two I've come across.

johnmct77

Battlestar Galactica- i know its been said before but the whole show was deeply moving and thought provoking especially the ending and it haunted me---actually moved lost to been my 2nd favourite show ever---BSG's characters and their dilemmas were so real that you really felt 4 them :eek: certain parts of the show made me wince due to its brilliant writing (season 2 finale i'm telling ya!)

I only wish I cud wipe my mind and watch it all again!

randomchild

If you want to see some one truly just making it up as they go along (and it actually works for the first season) Twin Peaks.

bunnymunro

no one mentioned supernatural yet!!had first series recorded and used to watch it when i had nothing else to do..starts off poorly enough to be honest and i was giving up on it it but towards the end of it it picks up ...from season two on the show just gets better and better.. the finale of season five aired stateside last week..its the perfect mix of frights laughs and mythology and unlike lost.. pretty much all makes sense.

JohnK

I really enjoyed Sons of Anarchy about a biker gang of the same name; season 2 is finished and its been picked up for a 3rd which is due to start in the US next September.

Wikipedia wrote:

Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, CA, as well as the other members of the local Sons of Anarchy (SAMCRO) charter, their families, various Charming townspeople, and the various rivals and associates who undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises. Sons of Anarchy follows the Sons of Anarchy motorcycle club but also features a number of ally and rival gangs, such as the Mayans, 1-9ers, Nords, True IRA and a white separatist group called the League of American Nationalists (LOAN).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124373/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Anarchy

Mackman

bunnymunro wrote: »

no one mentioned supernatural yet!!had first series recorded and used to watch it when i had nothing else to do..starts off poorly enough to be honest and i was giving up on it it but towards the end of it it picks up ...from season two on the show just gets better and better.. the finale of season five aired stateside last week..its the perfect mix of frights laughs and mythology and unlike lost.. pretty much all makes sense.

+1

I never watched it before, but a few months ago, the OH convinced me to give it a go. I love it, we rented out season's 1,2,3, and we're in the middle of 4 now. Fantastic show.

+1 on The Soprano's too, one of, if not the best TV drama ever

Marcaiocht_Tonn

The Wire is the greatest TV show I have ever seen. Currently at the end of season 4. It is literally so good that I can't watch anything else now. I was a huge 24 fan before and now I'm finding it hard to get through the latest season, having witnessed the quality that is the Wire.

Magic Eight Ball

I'm gonna go old school and recommend Space: Above & Beyond

jimbling

JohnK wrote: »

I really enjoyed Sons of Anarchy about a biker gang of the same name; season 2 is finished and its been picked up for a 3rd which is due to start in the US next September.



http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124373/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons_of_Anarchy

I've heard that's excellent all right. It was a hardcore biker that told me though, so I took it with a pinch of salt

I'll give it a look when I'm done with Oz and The West Wing.

MisterAnarchy

Another vote for Battlestar Galactica.
One of the best TV drama series of the past 2 decades and quite similar to Lost in many respects.
Its character driven ,has lots of mythology ,great acting ,very good production values and arguably the best soundtrack of any tv series ever.
The first 2 series are flawless ,the latter two arent as good but still good.

gsxr1

Spartacus is starting on Bravo tomorrow.

lots of blood and sex.

I liked the series.

Battlestar was fantastic.

The Wire was great.

I have ashes to ashes on my hard drive and half way through. it quite good also.

ScrubsfanChris

Ashes to Ashes or Life on Mars probably the best UK based.
Fringe had an awesome second season but you should really watch form the start.

Flashfoward has been cancelled, it went down hill from a few episodes in which is a shame becasue the concept was good.

Different genre, but House is pretty good.

Benny Lava

Everybody has been raving about The Wire.

Could it fill the LOST void???

gsxr1

Benny Lava wrote: »

Everybody has been raving about The Wire.

Could it fill the LOST void???

yes. I found it very entertaining. Get the boxset and lockyourself in your bedroom for a week

jonnyfingers

For a quick fix post-Lost I highly recommend the Sci-Fi miniseries "The Lost Room". Absolutely fantastic.

pablomakaveli

jonnyfingers wrote: »

For a quick fix post-Lost I highly recommend the Sci-Fi miniseries "The Lost Room". Absolutely fantastic.

I remember watching that a couple of years ago. It was actually a pretty cool show thoug it think it's only 3 episodes long.

As for other shows i'd highly recommend The Wire. Once i started watching it i could'nt stop, just like Lost it has great well-acted characters.

The Shield is also brilliant. I've watched the first 3 seasons and its a great fast paced show.

Generation Kill is also worth getting. It's only a mini-series but it's still great.

Skerries

current shows still airing at the moment i would recommend

Dexter - A serial killer who has a code to only kill other killers
Breaking Bad - ordinary decent teacher gets cancer and becomes a crystal meth manufacturer
Supernatural - 2 brothers who who track down and kill thing that go bump in the night
Fringe - weird science stuff happens which federal investigators and a mad scientist investigate
Spartacus - slaves, sex, gore, sex, violence, sex, swearing, sex, gore