Lost was already approaching it's final season when I decided to catch up so I got to watch the first 5 seasons marathon style.
The first 2 seasons was some of the best television I've ever seen. Seriously I had never been so engaged or so consumed by a show. It was that good. It would be fukkin 1AM on a work night and I'd tell myself "just one more"... and before you know it, it's 4AM and I'm still watchin.
But somewhere in the middle of season 3 is when I caught wind of what was goin on. That's when the show stopped feeloing real to me. Don't get me wrong it was still great but you could tell you were bein jerked off. And once Season 4 hit the shyt just tanked. All these new characters came out of nowhere, plot threads took a complete 180 and went nowhere... it was awful. From that point on it became a little bit of a chore to watch.
The final season I watched live with everyone else so I shared in the disappointment. What a clusterfukk. Easily the most disappointing show of all time. The drop off from Season 1 onwards was so fukkin steep it's sad.
It reached the point where I wasn't even sure if I'd recommend the show to a new viewer. Because no matter how insanely epic those first 2 seasons were, I'm not sure if it's worth having to sit through everything else and never having those massive expectations met. It's like fukkin the hottest bytch you ever saw and not bein able to cum.