Trust me: Don't. Not even on a desert island, bored out of your skull, is this series worth your time. It starts brilliantly and well and truly disappears up its own backside, to deliver a finale that made me realise I would one day have to answer to God for spending my life watching six series of this rubbish.

Lost is also the reason that 1) I only watch serialised television once it has finished, and I am reliably informed the conclusion was good (hence why I didn't watch Breaking Bad, The Wire, Battlestar Galactica, and various others until they were finished), and 2) why my wife vets all my television viewing, pointing me in the direction of only that which is genuinely worthy of my time (and she is never wrong). My primary entertainment focuses are cinema and literature, so television plays third fiddle to all of that, and I'm very happy for my wife to act as a filter in this respect. I'm never going to be able to watch all the films I want to see, or read all the books I want to read. I don't have enough life left, and much of that life I must spend silencing the voices in my head by putting them in novels and short stories. Therefore, I can't afford to waste any of it on bad television. :)