Dear JJ Abrams’ Drooling Fans,
It didn’t start with Lost.
Whenever you hear about anything new being produced by (or having anything to do with, really) JJ Abrams, it inevitably comes with the tagline “from the creator of Lost.” Entertainment reporters talk about how sci-fi fans will flock to anything with JJ Abrams’ name on it because he is the mastermind behind Lost.
Sure, Lost is a wildly popular show. In a television landscape of few hits and mostly misses, a show like Lost is a good one to be attached to. But…what about Felicity?
Felicity was JJ Abrams’ first television show. For those of you who can’t remember the golden days of the WB network, Felicity was an hour long drama that documented the life and times of a New York college student named, appropriately, Felicity. The show spanned the four years of Felicity’s undergraduate career, and every week fans tuned in to see what would happen to Felicity and her core group of pals.
Jennifer Garner, Greg Grunberg, Scott Foley, and Amy Smart are big names that were on this show. Arguably the show is what helped make them “big names.” It is also the vehicle that made Keri Russell, arguably, the Mickey Mouse Club member with the most successful acting career.
Among JJ Abrams’ earlier credits are Regarding Henry, Forever Young, and Armageddon. Felicity, however, is where his television fame started.
So, rabid JJ Abrams fans, please remember that your hero did not start his career with Lost. Sure it’s the most successful of his series, but what gave him his start in series television was a four year long show about a young girl named Felicity and her adventures as a college student in New York.
