Inside the controversial ‘Lost’ ending — and what the cast has said about it
The ending to “Lost” has been a controversial topic for television fanatics for the last decade and a half — and the conversation is reemerging now that the hit ABC series is streaming on Netflix.The mind-bending show, created by J.J.
Abrams and Damon Lindelof, premiered in 2004. It follows a group of plane passengers who crash on a mysterious island. The cast includes Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn, Jorge Garcia, Naveen Andrews, Ian Somerhalder, Maggie Grace, Emilie de Ravin, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Dominic Monaghan, Michelle Rodriguez, Henry Ian Cusick, Michael Emerson, Elizabeth Mitchell, Nestor Carbonell, and more.
During the series finale that aired in 2010, the islanders all reunite after their deaths in a “sideways timeline” that is revealed to be a form of purgatory.
They meet up in a church and “move on” together in the final scene of the show. However, many viewers misinterpreted the ending to mean that the characters were dead the entire time.
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