Marketing people tend to try to associate a new project with something popular from the past to get people interested. With all respect to Harold Perrineau (I most strongly associate him with the HBO series Oz rather than with Lost) he was just one actor from an ensemble cast (and, if memory...
So, I just watched the first episode of this. Excellent, compelling drama.
I would've watched more, but there seems to be something wonky with our A+ account; I still got to watch Ep#1 free.
My wife deals with the streaming accounts, so we'll fix things during the day. I want to finish this...