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  1. 1FROM (2022)FROM (2022) 7.8/10 on IMDbFirst aired 20 Feb 2022If what you miss most is the dread of the jungle at night, start here. FROM traps a growing crowd of strangers in a small American town that no road leads out of, and whatever comes out of the woods after dark is genuinely frightening. The Lost lineage is right on screen: Harold Perrineau, Lost's…0
  2. 2The Leftovers (2014)The Leftovers (2014) 8.3/10 on IMDbFirst aired 29 Jun 2014Damon Lindelof's next series after Lost, made with novelist Tom Perrotta, and the closest thing to an answer to what Lost was really about. It follows the people left behind after two per cent of the world's population vanishes, and its single-character episodes do what Lost's best flashbacks did,…0
  3. 3Yellowjackets (2021)Yellowjackets (2021) 7.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 14 Nov 2021The plane crash survival story Lost fans keep coming back to. A high school girls' football team goes down in remote northern wilderness in 1996, and the show cuts between their months in the woods and the damaged adults they became 25 years later. That two-timeline structure is Lost's flashbacks…0
  4. 4Paradise (2025)Paradise (2025) 7.9/10 on IMDbFirst aired 26 Jan 2025The newest show to borrow Lost's playbook, and the one that does it most openly. Dan Fogelman, who made This Is Us, builds Paradise around a murder in a picture-perfect gated community, with Sterling K. Brown as the agent who knows more than he says. Whole episodes step back into one character's…0
  5. 5Fringe (2008)Fringe (2008) 8.4/10 on IMDbFirst aired 9 Sept 2008Lost co-creator J.J. Abrams launched this with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci while Lost was still on air, and it scratches the mythology itch with far less waiting. Early episodes are weird-science cases for an FBI agent, a brilliant, unstable scientist and his son, but each one feeds a much…0
  6. 6Dark (2017)Dark (2017) 8.7/10 on IMDbFirst aired 1 Dec 2017For the Lost fan whose favourite stretch was the time-jumping, Dark is the series that commits to it all the way. A missing child in the small German town of Winden pulls four families into a mystery spanning several generations, and keeping track of who is related to whom, and when, becomes the…0
  7. 7Manifest (2018)Manifest (2018) 7.0/10 on IMDbFirst aired 24 Sept 2018Pick this if the part of Lost you loved was the passenger list: the idea that a single flight bound strangers together for a reason. Montego Air Flight 828 lands after a bumpy few hours to find more than five years have passed on the ground, and its returnees start hearing callings that push them…0
  8. 8Silo (2023)Silo (2023) 8.1/10 on IMDbFirst aired 4 May 2023If the Swan hatch was your favourite Lost discovery, Silo is an entire series set inside one. Thousands of people live in a vast underground tower, forbidden to ask what lies outside, and Rebecca Ferguson's engineer starts pulling at the rules. The place itself is the mystery: every level,…0
  9. 9Severance (2022)Severance (2022) 8.6/10 on IMDbFirst aired 17 Feb 2022The Dharma Initiative, reimagined as an office job. Workers at the Lumon corporation have had their memories surgically split, so their office selves know nothing of their lives outside and vice versa. The orientation videos, strange departments and company rituals are exactly the kind of…0
  10. 10Person of Interest (2011)Person of Interest (2011) 8.5/10 on IMDbFirst aired 22 Sept 2011Come for Michael Emerson, stay for the best-kept secret on this list. Lost's Ben Linus plays Harold Finch, a reclusive billionaire whose surveillance machine predicts violent crimes, in a series created by Jonathan Nolan with J.J. Abrams producing. Flashbacks slowly reveal how Finch and his partner…0