It’s hard to wrap up a high-concept genre series in a satisfying way — just ask Damon Lindelof, who famously made a different TV show about characters trying to survive in a brutal other-world whose personalities are revealed through flashback. But while the deadly Japanese sci-fi drama Alice in Borderland is not designed to have the duration of a naughts-era American broadcast network TV show like Lost, it does have the same kind of Big Plot that demands a Big Payoff.
