Via USA Today:
This was a great decade for drama as shows such as The Wire, Rescue Me, Boomtown, Battlestar Galactica, Mad Men, 24, Grey’s Anatomy, True Bloodand Pushing Daisiesall made their debut after 2000 (and 1999’s The West Wingand The Sopranosjust missed the cutoff). But if you want one show to represent the stretch, go with ABC’s Lost for its sweep, grandeur, ambition, achievement and ability to play by, and yet ultimately alter, commercial TV’s rules.
Though quality clearly matters most, Lost also owes its success to timing. Lost was designed to create and encourage passion just when advertisers became willing to reward passionate viewing. And that passion has been amplified by the decade’s booming commercial arena: the Internet, which enabled fans to focus (some would say obsessively) on the show’s myths and feints and allowed the writers (some would say obsessively) to plant ever more clues for those fans to find.
It has created a community unlike any other — and it’s one of the reasons Lost will be one of those series people cherish and remember for decades to come.
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