Lost has been voted the most confusing TV show of all time. Photo / Supplied
The most confusing TV show of all time has been revealed.
A study by OnBuy.com analysed the global average monthly search volumes for explanations for popular TV shows to determine which 10 programs left viewers scratching their heads the most.
The top spot was taken out by Lost which finished on TV back in 2010.
The finale was labelled by Rolling Stone as one of the worst TV show endings of all time for its failure to tie up so many loose ends.
“When the time came for this sprawling sci-fi mystery about aeroplane-crash survivors stranded on a mystical island to cough up the answers to its countless questions, Lost largely baulked,” Rolling Stone wrote.
“But as frustrating as that was … the series finale committed a far worse crime: It revealed that the ‘flash-sideways’ storyline, in which the main characters lived in an alternate world where they’d never crashed on the island, was some kind of corny new-age afterlife.”
“In other words, half of what the audience had spent the final episodes watching literally never happened.”
One of the show’s stars, Evangeline Lilly, defended the finale during an appearance at Dragon Con in 2018.
“You loved our show, because at the end of every week, we would leave you with an impossible and pressing mystery,” the actress told the crowd.
“It would force you to the water cooler, or the dinner table, asking each other the most difficult questions. Usually philosophical questions. Sometimes questions that touched on God or religion and reality, and what it means to be human.
“And then, on the finale, you sat waiting with bated breath, thinking, ‘They’re gonna give us the answer.’ Well, that’s what religions do.”
“So if you want the answer to the great big question of life, go to church, go to God, find the answer, but art … art is supposed to, every time without fail, turn the question back on you, and asks you to look at what you’re seeing, listen to what you’re hearing, experience it, and then look at it in the mirror of your soul, and figure out what it means to you.”
“And so there is no one interpretation of the finale of Lost. For as many people that are in this room, there are that many true, real, endings for Lost. Because it’s just a reflection of who you are, and it’s the ultimate question being posed to you, not the ultimate answer being handed to you.”
Here are the other shows that made the top 10 of most confusing TV shows of all time.
Lost – 43,000 monthly average searches
Game of Thrones – 24,950 monthly average searches
Westworld – 13,800 monthly average searches
Stranger Things – 10,160 monthly average searches
The OA – 9050 monthly average searches
Twin Peaks – 7280 monthly average searches
Riverdale – 6540 monthly average searches
The Leftovers – 6000 monthly average searches
Mr Robot – 4210 monthly average searches
Legion – 2150 monthly average searches
