Today at work, someone asked me to explain Lost to them, as they hate fantasy shows. He was like, "So they crash on an island. Then what?" That was literally all he knew about the show.
I then realized that verbally summing up 6 years of Lost makes a person sound clinically insane.
This is what I said, almost word for word if I remember everything correctly. He said he has no desire to watch it, so to explain it to him. So I tried to make it sound more ridiculous than it already is. :lol
"Okay well they crash on an island. And there's a smoke monster and there's these other people that live on the island. And they try to get off the island. That's season 1. Season 2, they're still trying to get off the island. Except they find a man living in a one room apartment underground who is saving the world by pressing a button every 108 minutes so that takes up a lot of their time. Then it blows up. Then in the season 3 finale instead of doing flashbacks to the characters lives, they do a flash FORWARD to the future and show that they get off the island. Season 4 keeps doing this and shows how they get off the island.
Then in season 5 they try to get BACK to the island because they left people behind. But when they get to the island they land in the 1970's. So they set off a nuke on the island which pushes them back to 2007.
There's also this cabin on the island where this guy named Jacob lives. And the cabin can teleport and it hops around the island. In the season 5 season finale you find out this Jacob guy has been visiting the characters since they were kids, PUSHING them to the island. And one of the characters is dead and this other guy who wants to kill Jacob is posing as the guy that's dead.
Oh, and there's a big wheel underground and this guy named Ben drives the island around."
He was just stunned and said that he likes shows where he knows the stuff could happen in real life. :lol