While on a 3 hour detour, the fuselage from a airplane hits turbulence and goes back in time, and our castaways from the sky land on a mysterious island home of the Sleestak who reveals that one of the passengers is a terrorist. To their surprise the survivors find that the world is ruled by apes and by the way, they are already dead.

I was going to make a snarky comment about how the writer's of the show must be Lost but I'll skip it and get right to the meat. I don't like this show for the same reason I don't like Lenny Kravitz: its a sickly-sweet frappe of the genre. Critics are raving "Television audiences wanted something different and ABC seems to be doing that" yeah, but they did it the ABC way which is they formed a committee to try to make a show be all things to all people.

Bring back something controversial like evil Dopplegangers terrorizing an already bizarre lumber town in the Northwest or a brilliant but flawed sports journalist keeping the journalism football with only the help of a Lipton-tea lover and a future wrongful death of his wife liablitier.