Few series are as era-defining as Lost, the twisty ABC drama about castaways on a mysterious island that aired from 2004 to 2010. But even as the show was racking up awards, sparking trend after trend, and alternately enthralling and confounding its rabid fans, it’s clear that Lost “played right into Hollywood’s most long-standing patterns, in which auteurs wield enormous power with very little oversight,” writes Maureen Ryan in a bombshell excerpt from her forthcoming book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood. “I talked to people across all six seasons, half of whom were people of color and more than half of whom were women. Every person I spoke with is justifiably proud of the work they did on the drama, but by all accounts, they worked very hard on a job that could be quite grueling. And scarring.”
Elsewhere in HWD, we’ve gone all in on the Succession finale, interviewing the episode’s two most major players: Jeremy Strong and Matthew Macfadyen. Not moved by the Roy family’s boardroom machinations? Try David Canfield’s chatwith Barry star Henry Winkler, or Katey Rich’s assessment of how Ted Lasso season three went wrong.
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