Lost Isn't Alone: The 10 Most Controversial Series Finales Ever

When viewers settled in on Sept. 22, 2004 for the premiere of a new ABC show about marooned survivors of a plane crash, there was no way of knowing what the next six years had in store for them.
Little did fans know when Lost debuted on Sept. 22, 2004, that it would eventually go down in TV history as one of the most controversial endings ever.

Lost Isn't Alone: The 10 Most Controversial Series Finales Ever 

Very rapidly, Lost revealed itself to be a lot greater than a survival drama. The sci-fi sequence created by Jeffrey Leiber, J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof would introduce enthralled followers to hatches, polar bears, smoke monsters, the Dharma Initiative, the Others and extra obstacles meant to stop the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 (performed by Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway and extra) from leaving their tropical jail—or lure them again in the event that they managed to flee. Overseen for a lot of its run by Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, Lost inspired viewers to attempt to remedy the puzzle at its coronary heart whereas at all times promising that solutions would ultimately arrive.

But by the point the present signed off in 2010, it had launched extra thriller than may fairly be resolved and its finale selected to focus extra on the characters we might come to know and love over the specifics of why and the way each final unusual prevalence had come to cross. Naturally, followers have been left reeling on the perceived bait-and-change, incomes the present a spot on the checklist of TV’s most controversial sequence finales ever.