Fathers don’t get a great press in the TV series Lost. Only one dad (Jin’s father) is presented as a good man. The rest are never mentioned, or [as of the end of Season 4] …

Jack’s father is an alcoholic who performs surgery while drunk

Claire’s father (same man)

Kate’s father is a wife-beater and makes sexual advances to his daughter

Hugo’s father deserts his family for 17 years, reappearing only when Hugo wins the lottery

Sawyer’s father commits murder and suicide after being conned by the ‘real’ Sawyer

Sun’s father is a millionaire who views murder as a legitimate business tactic

Locke’s father is a con man who robs his son of a kidney and tries to kill him

Walt’s father (Michael) is a murderer

Aaron’s father deserts his pregnant wife

Ben’s father blames him for Ben’s mother’s death, continually belittles him.

– I wonder about J.J. Abrams’ father !