(W) Emily St. James, Noel Murray. Before it premiered in the fall of 2004* LOST looked doomed to be an expensive* disastrous plane crash of a TV show. Instead* LOST was a massive hit* debuting with the biggest audience for a new drama on ABC in over a decade* reaching heights of over 23 million viewers at its peak* and holding on to a hefty fan-base for its entire six-season run. In LOST: Back to the Island* TV critics and veteran LOST recappers Emily St. James and Noel Murray revisit what made the show such a success and an object of enduring cultural obsession* twenty years later. Through essays* episode summaries* and cultural analysis* they take us back to the island and examine LOST's lasting impact and its complicated* sometimes controversial legacy with a clear-eyed and lively investigation.