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For around 6 years, TV Series "Lost" remained on my watchlist, but unfortunately, it was not available on any OTT platform, leaving me unable to watch it. While I had watched several good movies in the same genre during my quest for "Lost," such as "Welcome to the Jungle" and "Cast Away," both were good, the latter stood out as an absolute classic gem.

This time, I discovered an entire series that piqued my interest. The scenic locations portrayed in the series were truly spectacular and visually arresting. The name itself allured me, promising a great experience. Sometimes, we do watch contents based on the first-look and the name, however, they can be deceiving and could fool us.

Unfortunately, the writing in the series proved to be quite lackluster, greatly diminishing the potential of the entire script. The pace of the story's development was slow, and it failed to truly captivate me. Consequently, I couldn't help but feel disappointed.

Despite a few glorious moments and attractive scenes, including those featuring girls in bikinis, they couldn't salvage the overall justice of the series. Regrettably, I would have to rate it a mere 3.5/10.

See, i don't remember where but i remember reading somewhere for chaos to build up the characters need to give wrong unexpected decisions. I guess that's the motto of this series. But it is applying it wrong, really wrong. I guess this is what happens when the creators are not down to earth and trying to create "art" rather than being familiar. Every decision the characters make are laughable. Every act they proceed is unfamiliar and unreal. The four i gave is for the crew that had to work on that conditions.

It's a rip off of Lost, but gets just as weird even quicker.

The characters are unlikable. They're stupid. They're a bunch of 30ish year olds acting like teens in the first few episodes.

Then it's an attempt at sci fi, but worse. It's bland, its slow, it makes no sense.

While I think some reviews are extremely harsh, it's actually a pretty poor series too.

I kept watching this. I don't know why...maybe some kind of masochistic self hate?

The plot? Terrible. The main characters? Terrible. The secondary characters? Especially terrible (I'm looking at you, Warden). The dialogue? TERRIBLE. WHY? Why did I keep watching this? Why wasn't it better? Who made this? Can we stop them from ever making something again? Terrible. Just terrible. I truly cannot believe I finished it. It doesn't get better. It just doesn't.

Plot

When ten people wake up on a treacherous island with no memory of who they are and how they got there, they set off on a trek to try to get back home, only to discover the world is not as it seems.

Cast

Bruce McGill, Kate Bosworth and a whole lot of people you'll recognize but struggle to name.

Verdict

Me and the missus take turns in picking our next show, as mine wasn't out quite yet I rushed and picked this. Whoops! My bad. I quickly brought it up on my phone on IMDB and was stunned to see the low rating. TV shows consistently tend to have higher ratings on average than movies, seeing a very low rated mainstream tv show is rare and this was low!

We ventured in and saw that clearly this had a budget behind it, more than ever I questioned the low rating. Then the mystery begins to unfold, the characters are developed and we saw what we were dealing with and it all became clear.

The plot, concept and approach is very colour by numbers. They played this as safe as they could to generic popular formulas and it still didn't work.

The characters and consistently awful, I'm supposed to be rooting for these people? Sorry, simply can't.

The dialogue is absurd, it's not just that it's poorly written but it's done in such a way that makes the whole thing unbelievable. The way they react to their situation is silly, the way they react to almost everything is dumb.

It plods along like a filler episode of Lost, it's twists and turns are predictable and unsatisfying it's just a very poorly made show.

I'm not one to pay too much attention to average ratings, but wow this one deserves what it has.

Rants

This was advertised as a limited series which I'm beginning to appreciate more and more in this time where everything is cancelled on a cliffhanger. The trouble is limited series need to stay within realistic parameters and The I-Land doesn't, the premise is too big for its runtime and though it could be argued it as an ending (Though an ambiguous one) it still leaves too many questions that needed answering even if the show was pretty dire. Did it need a season 2? Probably. Did I want to have to sit through more of this? Absolutely not.

The Good

A couple of the cast weren't terrible, but I mean literally a couple Nice setting, not original but always nice to see

The Bad

Very weak writing Laughable dialogue Doesn't end sufficiently for a limited series Very generic.

Certainly this money could've been used for season 3 of The OA. Just Awful.

All of the episode titles are quotes from "The Tempest." ("Oh brave new world that has such creatures in it"-in light of the play telling us at once that pretty faces disguise dark hearts.) One subplot of "The Tempest" is that Prospero the magician has a ship carrying a variety of noblemen and courtiers to his island and has them wander around thinking they are alone and tested by various illusions in order to find out if they are good people at heart, mediocre people, or bad people. That's what happens in this series, more or less. Prospero uses a spirit being named Ariel to make this happen, much as two people show up to guide or warn and to watch the survivors. At the end of the play, Prospero makes his decisions. Knowing this makes the series more fun.

The shows first few episodes were poorly scripted but I persevered. By episode 3 it starts to pick up and the plot starts to develop and you start to think things will get better until the twist at the end feels like a slap to the face. If you like getting slapped in the face watch this series.

It is a weird show and the acting isn't the best.. but if you can make it through the first 2 episodes the concept gets better than what you might think. Keep an open mind and give it a shot.

Literally made an account just to say this show is actually pretty decent. Much, MUCH better than the first episode.... Not really even sure what was up with that. It's definitely a Lost rip off (the characters almost exactly) but it's entertaining and does have its own plot and twists. I feel like all of the bad reviews either came from people who didn't watch even through the first episode, or are just trolls. Give it a chance. It won't win any awards, but it's a great binge show.

I'm 100% behind most of these reviews when only applied to the first two episodes.

Beyond episode 3, however, is a nice sci-fi plot reminiscent of Black Mirror. Stick with it sci-fi fans and to Netflix, actually make good pilots!

Somehow, all the worst possible actors and actresses end up on the same island in this Netflix series. If that's not enough, they all react to situations in the exact opposite manner a normal human would. I'm still confused as to how Netflix put their name on this?

Poor acting, poor direction, and ridiculous dialogue. The characters are completely unlikeable and unrelatable. I don't see this show going anywhere, tbh.

You might THINK you want to watch this. Maybe you miss Lost... or maybe you like bad... I mean REALLY bad TV. This show is kind of like seeing the Room but with better looking production values. But the dialog is as bad, the acting is as bad. It's just not as much fun as The Room. There are some truly hilariously memorable moments. A woman shooting a guy in the stomack with a flare gun that goes straight through his body (not possible) but as he falls onto his back, he's not even really bleeding... As amusing as this is, it's not worth wasting your time on. How is it possible that Neil Labute's name is attached to this? Go watch Billy and Billie if you want to see how brilliant he truly is.

This is so bad that it's going to be studied by future generations. It's completely mind-boggling that something like this can be made in 2019. I'm impressed!

Yes it is difficult to watch in the beginning. Characters are very annoying. But if you manage to fight through first 3 episodes it might get a bit easier. Or maybe it's just my fascination for psychological stuff which saved it for me. But 1/10 reviews are a bit too harsh..

So Netflix price has went up £2.00 again in the UK They cancel great films and series, then make this... Really???

They had a fun show like Santa Clarita Diet, but cancelled it.

Use our money to get top actors and great writers, then I wont mind paying a premium.

Poor show Netflix

It wasn't the greatest show on earth but it was still better than the one average. It's only seven episodes just stick with it it's not that bad!

Predictable script until u get into episode 3. It gets better as you go so stick with it.

I'm on the 5 episode and I'm hooked!! Even though a few of the actors are not that great, I'm invested in the overall cast!!

Awful dialogue, no likable characters and not intriguing enough to wait for mystery reveal.