Lost: Every Season Ranked Worst To Best

Remember when Lost was a thing? A cultural, worldwide phenomenon that got everyone in colleges, offices and parties talking about their theories and how they thought the show would play out.

We've seen this take form in the likes of Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad - a series so enriched with twists and turns, that if you were a fan of the show and you encountered another fan, you could be locked in a conversation that could span hours, just debating and discussing ideas.

Ask any fan of the show today what they think of it and they might roll their eyes and sigh over how bad the finale was, but I would bet that a revision of the show might stir up reasons for why so many people loved the show to begin with.

The characters were well-rounded and creative, and the story was certainly a unique one - albeit with no direction. But within its six season run, there was something to behold about a show that went from plane crash survival, to saving the world from an unstoppable, immortal monster made of smoke.

For everything in between, there were peaks and valleys. And while it could be construed as one collective tale, each season had its own themes and arcs.

Without spoiling too much of the series, here are all six season of the show, ranked from bad to best - let's hope it can stir up some nostalgic support for the series.

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?