“Lost”

Tomorrow night at 8 on ABC

* * * (three stars)

A planeload of incredibly good-looking yuppies and Gen-Xers crashes in the mid-Pacific, killing everyone who isn’t a model.

We assume this to be true right off because all the survivors on ABC’s “Lost” look like they fell out of the Ford model book – not an airplane.

Only four survivors are not perfect, demographically speaking – a woman who looks to be mid-40s; a man in his 50s who may or may not be a pervert, but is for sure a weirdo; and a kid. (There’s also the kid’s dog who, even though he isn’t a Gen Xer, is a labrador, which is demographically desirable.)

Despite the fact that the plane breaks into three pieces, all the dead are conveniently stuck inside the fusilage so we don’t have to look at them. Better yet, none of the Gen Xer’s injuries are serious. Yes – it’s a miracle.

As luck would have it, all have survived the crash without having broken bodies, ripped off limbs or burnt faces. I don’t know about you, but I love a neat crash.

Most of the injuries appear to be restricted (thank God again!) to really attractive gashes on the left sides of faces.

The setup after the clean plane crash is good, too. There’s handsome doc Jack (Matthew Fox); Kate (Evangeline Lilly), a mystery woman; Charlie (Dominic Monaghan, formerly a Hobbit); and Hurley (Jorge Garcia), the one fat guy. (Will he turn out to be doomed like “Piggy” from “Lord of the Flies”? Nah. It’s TV!)

The other passengers, particularly Sayid (Naveen Andrews, the great actor from one of my favorite movies, “The English Patient”), add some spice to the stew.

Sayid is a former Iraqi soldier who fought in the first Gulf War. This brings up all kinds of prejudices – as does the Korean married couple (Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim) who don’t speak English but definitely don’t like to be around the African-American guy and his kid (Harold Perrineau and Malcolm David Kelly).

There’s one seemingly bad guy (Josh Holloway) who must be unredeemable because he is – oh God, no! – a chain smoker, although we never see any smoke come out of his mouth because, well, it’s TV after all.

At any rate, while they’ve had the damn bad luck to have crashed on the only Pacific Island with neither luxury hotel accommodations nor the cast of “Survivor” already camped out, there is a monster that eats people. (I’m not kidding.)

It sounds dopier than it is. In fact, it’s actually scary and kind of riveting.

The flashbacks to the crash from various the survivors’ viewpoints are harrowing and the storyline, once the dopey non-injury plane crash is gotten through, is very good.

What’s missing is any real diversity in the cast.

I mean, seriously, have you ever been on a plane with only gorgeous, young people? Neither have I.