Looking back at Alcatraz season 1 Caroline looks back at season 1 of Alcatraz, a flawed but promising new sci-fi mystery produced by J.J. Abrams
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As soon as Alcatraz , the new show from producer J.J. Abrams and his team, was ordered and, subsequently, aired, it couldn't move for the Lost comparisons. While that previous mystery show had its problems and detractors, it's still a grand legacy to live up to, and there was a worry this new prison drama/sci-fi mystery would fail at the task. Well, like Lost , Alcatraz has its problems, but it's also managed to avoid many of its predecessor's mistakes.
That's not something to scoff at, with so much post- Lost television crashing and burning before it could even reach one season ( Flash Forward etc.). Other efforts, like Heroes with its ensemble cast, fared much better of course, but nothing had managed to create (
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