Lost: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

6. Season 6 - "The One With The Alternate Timeline"

Best Episode Of The Season: Episode 09 - Ab Aeterno

After the previous season's finale saw a nuclear bomb detonated in the heart of The Island, the show led itself down a rabbit hole where audiences were no longer given flashbacks, but flash-sideways into an alternate timeline where Oceanic Flight 815 didn't crash, and the interference of Jacob and Richard Alpert had never occurred.

The sixth season had so much anticipation built up behind it, the ambiguity of the show and how it would end sent internet theories into overdrive. What made the final season so deflating was the show appeared to write itself into a corner, and then tangled itself up in absurd conclusions.

The origins of Jacob, The Smoke Monster, Richard and why the survivors were so important, should have been scattered across the whole series, instead a lot of these loose ends seemed to come out as unexplained payoffs. In hindsight, the mysteries of The Island should have stayed unexplained, but this was 2009 and audiences were desperate to know how and why events occurred previously.

In the end, the Afterlife reveal, and realizing the show boiled down between a conflict of light verses dark (good vs evil) just didn't land as well as it should have. Perhaps the show should have just been cancelled, and fans could have imagined their own ideal ending?