How many seasons of Lost are there?

Lost is ABC’s fictional adventure drama, created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof. The show aired from September 22, 2004, to May 23, 2010, for 6 seasons.

Lost focuses on the survivors of a plane crash - Jack, Kate, Charlie, Sayid, James, Hugo, Michael, Sun and Jin Kwon, Claire, Boone, Shannon, Rose, and John, as they find themselves on a mysterious island and must learn to trust each other and work together to survive.

List of Lost episodes

Here is a list of episodes of Lost:

Season 1 (2004–05)

Season 2 (2005–06)

Season 3 (2006–07)

Season 4 (2008)

Season 5 (2009)

Season 6 (2010)

List of Lost Specials

In addition to its 6 seasons with 121 episodes, Lost also released 28 specials including an epilogue titled “The New Man in Charge.”

Here is a list of all Lost specials:

Mobisodes: Lost: Missing Pieces

Recap specials

What is Lost about?

Lost begins with the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 crash landing on a mysterious island during their journey from Sydney, Australia, to Los Angeles, California. The survivors of the crash are forced to team up to survive, if they can’t find a way to live together, they will die alone.

Throughout the series, flashbacks reveal the past of each of the survivors. Jack Shepard is a spinal surgeon, who married and then divorced a former patient. He was in Sydney to pick up the body of his recently deceased father, Christian Shepard, to bring it home for a funeral in America. Kate Austen is a fugitive, wanted for murdering her abusive father, and was being transported back to America by a US Marshall to await trial. Charlie Pace is a heroin-addicted washed-up rock star, known for his band Drive Shaft’s one-hit wonder, “You All Everybody.”

Sayid Jarrah is a former torturer and interrogator for Iraq’s Special Republican Guard. After abandoning his post, Sayid cuts a deal with the CIA to infiltrate a terrorist cell in Australia in exchange for the location of the love of his life, Nadia.

James Ford is a con man who takes on the name Sawyer, after the con man who tricked his mother out of a large sum of money, causing his father to then kill her. Sawyer was in Sydney to kill the original Sawyer for revenge but was given bad intel and killed the wrong guy.

Hugo “Hurley” Reyes won over $100 million in the lottery after playing numbers he heard from a fellow patient during his brief stint in a psychiatric hospital. After winning the money, Hurley’s life became incredibly unlucky.

Michael Dawson flew to Australia to pick up his young, estranged son, Walt, following the death of Walt’s mother. Michael hasn’t seen Walt since he was a baby, putting a strain on their relationship.

Sun and Jin Kwon are a married Korean couple on the brink of separation. After falling in love and getting married, the lower-class Jin took a job working for Sun’s powerful father. This job required Jin to do a lot of violent and criminal acts, hardening his personality straining his relationship with Sun, and leading to her having an affair.

Claire Littleton is a young Australian woman on the verge of giving birth. She was traveling to America to give her unborn child up for adoption. Boone Carlyle and Shannon Rutherford are vapid and well-off step-siblings who also have complicated romantic feelings for each other.

Rose Nadler is a woman who desperately believes that her husband Bernard has somehow survived the plane crash, despite him being on the back of the plane that broke off and landed somewhere in the jungle. And then there’s John Locke, who despite being the most adept survival expert on the island, is revealed to have been an oft-abused paraplegic before the crash.