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Ordinary people wake up with extraordinary powers, and NBC's 2006 serial made watching them find each other appointment television. "Save the cheerleader, save the world" became the rallying cry of a show that felt, for exactly one season, like it could save television too.
The ABC serial drama that turned network TV into a mystery box for six seasons. When Oceanic Flight 815 crashed on a mysterious island, survivors discovered that their new home held impossible secrets—a smoke monster, a hidden hatch, a shadowy group called "the Others"—and a mythology so complex that fans spent years theorizing about every detail.