The Lost Season

“There have been some seasons when the show was nominated, and there have been some seasons when the show wasn’t nominated,” said Damon Lindelof of this year’s Outstanding Drama Emmy nod. “When it’s not nominated, it’s because the show’s too weird, or too genre, or it’s too mythologically dense. So…those are the three characteristics of the fifth season of the show. We did time travel the entire time, so it was incredibly genre, it was very sci-fi, and the mythology was more dense than it’s ever been. So we were like, ‘This is definitely not the year that we’re going to be nominated for an Emmy.’ And so when it happened, we were genuinely shocked.”