PARADISE?

There is a new television show called "Wrecked" which will debut on June 14th on TBS. It is about a bunch of airplane crash survivors on a Pacific Island. Sound familiar?

But this show is a comedy. In the first trailer, it used images from LOST as a parody send up for this new show.

Can LOST work as a comedy?

IndieWire explains:


I don't think this is what Jack had in mind when he screamed to Kate that "We have to go back!" TBS has premiered the first trailer for "Wrecked," a desert-island comedy that looks mysteriously similar to "Lost." Rhys Darby, Zach Cregger, Jessica Lowe, Asif Ali, Ally Maki, Will Greenberg, Brooke Dillman, Ginger Gonzaga and Brian Sacca are all in the ensemble cast; no word yet on whether any of them are Others.

The 30-second clip, which parodies the opening sequence from the pilot of "Lost" — once the most expensive ever made, with a price tag estimated between $10 and $14 million — shows the survivors of a plane crash running around the wreckage in chaos. One man fires a gun into the air, another screams while cloaked in flames, a woman carries the dead body of a hog onto the sand...and a dead body falls from the sky.

"Lost" was as controversial as it was successful, with fans and detractors alike going back and forth on how much of it was planned in advance as opposed to written on the fly. Its series finale in particular has become a flashpoint of debate, despite clearly being the best, most moving episode of its kind ever. (Désolé, haters.) This show's very existence shows that the series created by J.J. Abrams continues to resonate.

 Whether the ending of the show was good, bad, disappointing or a fraud is not at issue. The current question is that whether a plane crash premise leads itself into a full blown comedy series. There were light moments on LOST, mainly through Hurley's interactions or Sawyer's crude jokes. Whether a large ensemble cast will mimic the original LOST characters or will they try to become their own, independent ones? From the initial trailer, it seems that at the very least the elements and critical scenes of LOST are in the forefront for a satirical tangent on the LOST popularity.