After like 3 month of advertising, today finally the first episode of the series “Lost” aired on german, and therefore austrian television. After all the hype the local broadcast station made about the show pre-release I set great expectations in it - and have to say, the show lived up to them!
To american readers this is sure old news, because the show is probably in the second season over there now. But anyway, for all who don’t know about the show yet, here is a quick synopsis:

Darkness. Pain. Then the shining sun. A bamboo forest. Smoke and screams.
Slowly Jack regains conciousness. And realizes the gritty truth - the plane he was in crashed into the jungle.

The surviving passangers are made up of families, friends, foes and strangers. Some do not lose hope that a rescue team will come and find them, therefore staying calm. But others freak out and show their very darkest sides in this exile.

But in order to survive, they have to work together. Because not only weather and the rough terrain of the island they are stranded on are their enemies, also there are bone-chilling sounds and screams all day and night. A deadly power - the island has its own gruesome secret.

So 48 people struggle to survive the horror.

What I really liked about the first episode is that you don’t really see the plane crash in the beginning of the show, rather it is shown in perspective of some characters in flashbacks - which makes it even more thrilling and dramatic. And what showed up in the first episode too, was that almost everyone of the survivors has some secret the others shouldn’t know about.
And of course another reason to watch the show, is that it’s got Dominic Monaghan. Who was absolutely brilliant in the role of Meriadoc “Merry” Brandybuck in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

So to finish this long post up, if you haven’t done yet, you should really check out this series, very well done, both actor- and director-wise. Pick your local station for airdates (in germany it’s on ProSieben every monday evening).

Edit: For those in germany or austria who missed the first episode, on next Sunday the first episode gets aired again, on 10-something in the evening, on ProSieben.