I just started binge watching LOST

Finish season 2 then decide. The first half of season 2 isnt the great. The second half was a lot better

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They are interrogating the OTHER guy "Henry" that lied about burying his wife by the balloon.

It's starting to break off into a lot of flashbacks and back stories and half way through season 2 im already losing interest.

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I'd say yes. Season 2 doesn't really have its own identity compared to the other 5 seasons. It's just doing what worked in Season 1 and really stretching out a mystery of a simple question for the entire season.

I'll say it's my least favorite of the 6 seasons. Get to the Season 3 finale before deciding to quit.

I hope it compares to season 4 Dexter finale or GoT 6. When 60-70% of the episode is flashbacks, the main plot drags ridiculously slow.

I'm asking because the difference between a movie and a hit show is 100 hours of my life.

I take it back. Michael just killed two people. shite is picking up. About damn time.

I'm four episodes from 2 finale. Not used to 25 episode seasons. shite is going to take a while. I'm not sure I can handle another all Korean subtitled episode.

If you can make it through Season 2, you are MOSTLY good to go.. It drags a few times later in the show but generally 2 is the worst by far.

Let's just say when it ended we wanted our 7 years back.

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Let's just say when it ended we wanted our 7 years back.

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I'm gonna agree here, personally. If it's all about the journey -- and it usually is for me -- go ahead and devote your time to watching the entire series. The endgame is very polarizing, so you're going to get people who love it and don't care about the -- and I'm not editorializing here, these things exist objectively -- dropped plotlines and dangling mysteries that ultimately have neither resolution or explored significance. These sorts of viewers just enjoy the experience and the ever-expanding universe. They don't consider the aforementioned as detriments so much as just reasons to keep watching, and that's a perfectly legitimate approach.

The rest of us, though, felt as though the showrunners had no coherent plan in place and no goal sufficiently worthy of the patience the show asked of us while the plots unfolded. Ultimately, I'd suggest that you ask yourself whether an ending that does little to clear up the overarching mystery of "Why?" would ruin the experience retroactively. If you don't think it would, have at it. The show itself isn't bad. It just suffers when viewed from the whole being smaller than the sum of its parts.

(On a possibly-inconsistent tangent, I didn't particularly mind the finale and the explanations it offered. It was what it was. My problem was more with the fact that too many plotlines and ideas prior to, and unrelated to, the finale went completely unaddressed. In a way, the final couple of seasons were the only ones that had a truly coherent and cohesive concept. People might not have liked it, but it was at least explicable and congruent with the plot.)

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Being only in early season 5; I can see how perhaps it played better as weekly for some watercooler talk and speculations but upon the binge I kind of find myself losing interest. Maybe because the way I thought it would go in my opinion would have been better writing, but the jury's still out because there's still more to see.

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Yeah, it was definitely watercooler stuff. The wife (GF at the time) and I watched it together every week and had conversations about it. But seeing as there were only 6 seasons, I'd say you might as well finish it out. You probably won't get a lot of the answers you were hoping for, but as my (edited) comment says, the last season was likely the most cohesive one simply because the overarching mystery specific to that season (and maybe hinted at in the previous couple seasons, it's been a few years) is actually resolved in the finale.

Do you like the 100?

Similar to that but with much better music, writing, and acting.