When watching Lost, you become immersed in a world that is both terrifying and fascinating as people lose the polite masks that they wear in day to day life. The show first aired on September of 2004 and in the three season following, ABC has reaped the rewards of its popular and critical success. With around 15.5 million views per episode, this show has been a credit to its network and to its creators, J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, and Jeffery Lieber. One of the things that distinguishes this show is its large ensemble cast. At the beginning of the series, the viewer is introduced to characters that seem like they can be summed up in a glance. As the series unfolds, however, it becomes clear that no one is what they seem. This doesn't mean that everyone is secretly working for conflicting government agencies or anything so cliched; the secrets that are hidden are the ones that everyone hides, and some of them are quite dark and deep indeed. With a cast of 14 speaking characters, there is a lot of flexibility given to the writers and it can be seen that all of the characters' backgrounds were thoroughly thought out. The lead character Jack Shepherd, played by Matthew Fox, is a troubled surgeon who the surviving passengers turn to for leadership. Opposite Shepherd is the young Australian woman Claire, whose late-term pregnancy is the least of her concerns after the crash. The way isn't smooth on the island and group relations are often made more difficult by the many conflicting personalities. James "Sawyer" Ford is a conman played by Josh Holloway who creates much of the conflict for the first season, while Naveen Andrews plays Sayid Jarrah, an Iraqi Republican Guard who acts as a voice of reason but is hiding secrets of his own. Sun-Hwa Kwon is played delicately and with a great deal of restraint by Yunjin Kim, and her relationship with her taciturn husband, Jin-Soo Kwon (played by Daniel Dae Kim) provides a deeper view of the affect the crash has on the psyches of the survivors. These are just a few of the characters that are portrayed on Lost and absolutely none of them can be summed up in a few brief sentences.
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