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Turns out, people were up for that. Although it was neither a reality series nor a procedural cop show--the dominant formats of the past few years--Lost (Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.) was an instant top-10 hit. ABC last week moved Alias, a cult favorite whose ratings never matched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling used the eerie-tale genre to get around broadcast strictures, and in a way so does Abrams. Networks have long been afraid that audiences would lose interest in talky, character-driven shows about relationships. So Abrams lets viewers believe they're getting something else. Alias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

Felicity's romantic drama did not seem like a springboard to an action series like Alias, whose typical plot has Garner going into a European nightclub dressed like a hooker and blowing something up. But Abrams is the sort of storyteller who seems to want to tell every kind of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

Colleagues describe him as a kind of computer-era Renaissance man--or simply a computer. "We call it downloading," says Lindelof. "We could be talking about a story line for Lost, and he's walking out of an Alias editing room or on the phone about Mission: Impossible. He comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

Abrams' ever juggling style is reflected in the enjoyable narrative ADD of his series. Their themes--deception and mystery--mean that Abrams can, and does, remake them on a dime. Good people turn out evil and vice versa. Characters are killed ... or are they? Even Felicity had two series finales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Welcome to His Unreality | 1/10/2005 | See Source »

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