“Weren’t they dead the whole time?” For 14 years, that has been the glib response to any conversation about Lost, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse’s game-changing sci-fi series. Running for six seasons on ABC, Lost was one of the last great shows of serialized broadcast TV — a bona fide pop culture phenomenon that sat on the tipping point of watercooler internet culture. Everyone talked about Lost. Then suddenly, they didn’t.
