SPOILER ALERT!
So Lost ends with the sacrifice of someone with bloody hands and feet and a wound in his side. Whereupon everyone, including everyone who died in the series, ends up in a church–complete with a statue of Jesus–where they forgive each other, are reconciled, and experience a joyous reunion. The door opens and they walk out into the light.
I can’t remember any prime time series with so much explicit, overt Christianity. It’s given in symbols, but symbols are far more evocative than prose in a work of art. In addition to the Baptismal imagery that ran throughout the series, we also had in the last episodes Holy Communion imagery, with the mysterious God-figure saying “take this cup, and you’ll be like me.”
Pundits were saying that Lost has unique significance for our culture at this time in our history, to the point of proposing that the first decade of the 21st century–lacking a good name so far–be called “the Lost decade.” So what does it mean that it takes Christianity to resolve all of those intractable problems and unravel all of that confusion?
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