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Lost: season 5, episode 16
"The Incident"
May 13, 2009 - 11:05p.m.
In homage to Lost’s most time-travel-y season, this review will be skipping around chronologically, with a segment-by-segment recap interspersed with immediate reactions and thoughts in retrospect.
Segment one: A man in white weaves in front of a fire, then ...
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Lost: season 5, episode 15
“Follow The Leader”
May 6, 2009 - 09:05p.m.
All season long—and for much of the last three years on the Lost timeline—the show’s official hero Jack Shephard has been acting anything but heroic, and has been more or less sitting around, sometimes peacefully and sometimes ...
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Lost: season 5, episode 14
“The Variable”
April 29, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
“How did you get back here?”
Well, that’s what we'd all like to know, isn’t it? When Daniel Farday opens tonight’s episode of Lost with that question to Jack, he’s asking specifically about how the ...
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Lost: season 5, episode 13
“Some Like It Hoth”
April 15, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
In last week’s podcast, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse implied that tonight’s Lost, “Some Like It Hoth,” would offer a little levity before the impending darkness of this season’s final four hours. Heck the title alone—with ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 12
“Dead Is Dead”
April 8, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
I love origin stories.The very first issue of The Uncanny X-Men I ever bought was #138, in which Scott Summers stands over Jean Grey’s grave and reflects on the entire story of their love affair, as threaded through ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 11
“Whatever Happened, Happened”
April 1, 2009 - 10:04p.m.
Two weeks ago, when I peeked ahead at Lost’s upcoming episode titles (and the character flashbacks associated with them), the only one that didn’t immediately interest me was this week’s episode, the Kate-centered “Whatever Happened, Happened.” I ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 10
“He’s Our You”
March 25, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
Carlos Castaneda’s book A Separate Reality tells the purportedly true story of Castaneda’s apprenticeship under the Yaqui mystic Don Juan Matus, from whom he learned—with the help of psychedelics—to “see” the secret energies that flow through ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 9
"Namaste"
March 18, 2009 - 09:03p.m.
Ride, captain, rideOn your mystery shipBe amazed at the friendsYou’ve got there on your tripRide, captain, rideOn your mystery shipBe aware of the thingsOthers just might have missed-The Blues Image -
Lost: season 5, episode 8
“LaFleur”
March 3, 2009 - 10:03p.m.
Here's something that popped into my head after last week’s episode, and something which I don't think has been properly picked over by Lost mythologists: Why are there two islands? We know that Hydra Island moved along ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 7
“The Life And Death Of Jeremy Bentham”
February 25, 2009 - 09:02a.m.
“We’re all convinced sooner or later, Jack.”-Benjamin LinusPrior to this past two weeks’ one-two punch of “316” and “The Life And Death Of Jeremy Bentham,” Lost has aired Jack episodes and Locke episodes back-to-back three times. It ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 6
“316”
February 18, 2009 - 03:02p.m.
Last year, writing up the terrific Season Four episode “The Shape Of Things To Come,” I wrote:Here's the acid test for whether you can get in the groove with tonight's episode: Can you handle Locke saying, with ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 5
“This Place Is Death”
February 11, 2009 - 03:02p.m.
There are two recurring storytelling gimmicks that I’ve always liked on Lost. One is The Big Split. Early in Season One, we learned that the castaways were stranded on an island with “Others”... and the factionalism didn’t end ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 4
“The Little Prince”
February 4, 2009 - 03:02p.m.
As rewarding as Lost’s back-and-forth storytelling style can be, it does have its limitations. Ever since Jack shouted “We have to go back!” to Kate at the end of Season Three, we’ve been watching him and the rest ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 3
"Jughead"
January 28, 2009 - 02:01p.m.
Last week I complained that for all the propulsive action in the first two Season Five Lost episodes, the emotional undertones felt a bit forced. Well, “Jughead” went a lot more smoothly, because it was anchored to the one relationship ... -
Lost: season 5, episode 1 & 2
“Because You Left” / “The Lie”
January 21, 2009 - 03:01p.m.
How many times during the first two episodes of Lost’s fifth season did you gasp? Chuckle? Sit on the edge of your seat? Scratch your head? And here’s the real question: Was it enough?After a stellar fourth ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 13
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 2"
May 29, 2008 - 07:05p.m.
A year ago, Lost's third season ended with Jack making two phone calls. Off the island, in a flash-forward, he called Kate, and told her they had to "go back." On the island, he called Charles Widmore's freighter ... -
Lost: season 3, episode 17-22
"Through The Looking Glass," etc.
May 23, 2008 - 12:05p.m.
Two years ago, in a blog post called "The Perils Of Serialization," I wrote, "There are some things that television will always do better than movies, such as building characters and plots over long stretches of time, and playing out ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 12
"There's No Place Like Home, Part 1"
May 15, 2008 - 10:05p.m.
Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have said in recent interviews that this two-part, three-hour finale–of which we have now seen only a third–is going to be more action- and plot-oriented than prior finales, with less in the way ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 11
"Cabin Fever"
May 8, 2008 - 11:05p.m.
Which of these belongs to you: a vial of sand, an ancient book of laws, a compass, a Mystery Tales comic book (featuring the story "The Hidden Land"), a baseball glove, or a knife? A word of caution: Don't ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 10
"Something Nice Back Home"
May 1, 2008 - 09:05p.m.
After last week's rollicking outing, as soon as I saw the teaser for this week–with Jack crippled by appendicitis on the beach, and the rest of the gang methodically working their way through the jungle–I thought to ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 9
"The Shape Of Things To Come"
April 24, 2008 - 09:04p.m.
Hey, we're back! In our Dharma parkas, flat on our backs, in the middle of the Sahara. And ready for an adventure that seems like it will–as promised– race headlong to the Season Four finale.
So what was ... -
Lost: season 2, episode 19-23
"S.O.S.," etc.
April 17, 2008 - 06:04p.m.
When we first started doing Inventory a couple of years ago, I pitched one about "Most Startling TV Deaths," for which I planned to write about Roz falling down the elevator shaft on L.A. Law, Kellerman shooting Luther Mahoney ... -
Lost: season 2, episode 13-18
"The Long Con," etc.
April 10, 2008 - 12:04p.m.
When I interviewed Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse last week, Lindelof said something that stuck in my head while I was watching Season Two's third quarter. Talking about the much-maligned first six episodes of Season Three, Lindelof said that ... -
Lost: season 2, episode 7-12
"The Other 48 Days," etc.
April 3, 2008 - 11:04a.m.
After a shaky first six episodes, Lost's second season gets onto steadier footing in the second quarter, rallying with two remarkably tense installments, followed by three episodes with useful flashbacks, emotional swells, and actual forward momentum on the island ... -
Lost: season 2, episode 1-6
"Man Of Science, Man Of Faith," etc.
March 27, 2008 - 02:03p.m.
Rather than doing a strict episode-to-episode blog of Lost's second season–with grades and such–I'm going to continue what I've been doing, which is to take these earlier seasons in big chunks, to discuss how they ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 8
"Meet Kevin Johnson"
March 20, 2008 - 09:03p.m.
Well, that should satisfy everyone, yes?
I don't want to dredge back up the debate over last week's episode, because I do understand where the naysayers are coming from. There was minimal forward plot movement, coupled with a ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 7
"Ji Yeon"
March 13, 2008 - 07:03p.m.
Maybe it's because I just watched Season One's Jin/Sun episode "…In Translation" yesterday, but I was especially primed for "Ji Yeon," if only to see Yoon-jin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim get another showcase. I haven't ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 6
"The Other Woman"
March 6, 2008 - 08:03p.m.
The first time Juliet appeared on Lost, back in the first episode of Season Three, the episode started with a domestic scene that was meant to deceive us into thinking we were at an off-island location. But we weren't ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 5
"The Constant"
February 28, 2008 - 09:02p.m.
-"What do you expect to find when you get there?"
-"Answers."
That was the opening exchange of "The Constant," a delightfully mindbending Lost episode that was as explanatory as this show has ever been, while still retaining ample amounts of ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 4
"Eggtown"
February 21, 2008 - 09:02p.m.
First off, before we get into it this week, I have to share this clip with you. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it, but I just found it a couple of days ago. It's the ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 3
"The Economist"
February 14, 2008 - 09:02p.m.
I wanted to send you all a Lost valentine this week, but I couldn't decide whether to go with Desmond saying, "I See Love In Your Future" or Sayid saying, "Life Without You Is Torture." (Conspicuously absent: Mr. Friendly ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 2
"Confirmed Dead"
February 7, 2008 - 09:02p.m.
The day after I wrote up last week's Lost, I hit all the usual on-line spots for Lost obsessives–Jeff Jensen's EW.com write-ups, "What's Alan Watching?," Lostpedia, etc.–and after reading all the theorizing and speculating ... -
Lost: season 4, episode 1
"The Beginning Of The End"
January 31, 2008 - 11:01p.m.
And now it all starts to pay off.
Before this fourth season is over, Lost is bound to disappoint we fans again; and if it gets to the end of the planned 16 episodes, it'll probably win us back ...
