It may seem like every TV show people used to like has come back in some form, but ABC doesn’t have any plans to hop on a doomed plane yet for a Lost revival. That’s according to TVLine, which asked ABC president Channing Dungey if the network is planning to send a new batch of survivors on a mystery-filled adventure…
For those of you who missed out on the lively debates and fanatic digging during the series’ original, 2004-2010 run on ABC, or were similarly unable to join in on that obsessive discussion during the seven years it was available on Netflix, here’s some welcome news: The entire run of Lost is now streaming on Hulu,…
We recently reported that @Midnight, the Comedy Central quiz-and-hashtags show hosted by Chris Hardwick, is coming to an end. While that may be a source of sadness—or relief, who knows, perhaps you agree with Hardwick, who thinks it has run its course—fear not: Now the Nerdist creator and stand-up is taking his…
Using flashbacks in your story is a lot like doing drugs. Use them the wrong way and the entire trip gets muddled and confusing (Lost, for example); use them too much for all the wrong reasons and it leads to an abrupt, nauseating ending (like How I Met Your Mother). But utilized correctly (and responsibly, kids) a…
This post contains discussion of plot points from Game Of Thrones and Westworld.
Unless you’re one of the proud and stubborn few who are willing to defend it (we should probably form a club and have hats made, or something), the ending of Lost bummed you out. As it turns out, having every character enter a magical happy church and disappear in a feel-good gauze of light is a great way to royally…
Movie shoots naturally seem like a risky business, what with all the harnesses and green screens and car crashes. But it turns out that filming a TV series also poses some inherent dangers. Today Whatculture posted the short video “10 Actors Who Almost Died Filming Major TV Shows.” With Whatculture being based in the…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
Big Hollywood memorabilia auctions are always a lot of fun, because they let us normal people get tantalizingly close to owning a piece of movie history. An actual screen-used prop like a Stormtrooper blaster from Star Wars or an animatronic Facehugger egg from Aliens seems priceless, but could actually be possessed…
One week a month, Watch This offers television recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: In honor of The A.V. Club’s Comics Week, television episodes about our favorite origin stories.
One-Season Wonders, Weirdos, And Wannabes considers the merits of short-lived TV shows. In this installment: John Doe, which ran for 21 episodes on Fox in 2002 and 2003.
Among its 100-plus lists, the 2009 Inventory book (now available for the low, low price of a penny!) contains “TV Guides: 5 essential books about TV.” The books it highlights—The Late Shift by Bill Carter, Live From New York by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, Total Television by Alex McNeil, The Glass Teat by…
Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…
In a mystery befitting a strange island full of mysteries, some Lost fans recently noticed that the version of the show’s series finale that’s streaming on Netflix is 18 minutes shorter than the full, 104-minute behemoth that originally aired on ABC in 2010. Entertainment Weekly asked Lost…
Damon Lindelof has spent the years since he escaped ABC’s endlessly polarizing Lost engaged in the healing process, writing screenplays and serving as showrunner for the relatively placid The Leftovers. (After all, his new show might be inconsistent, but at least he doesn’t have to worry that people are going to…
People love to hate series finales. Reddit user ChallengeResponse has taken up the task of exploring fans’ tumultuous relationships with television conclusions in a graph that charts a show’s finale reception when compared to the average rating of the rest of its run. There’s a catch, though: All the data used for the…
Sonya Walger is extending her stay in Shondaland. The Lost actress, who guest starred on Scandal last year, has been cast as a series regular in Shonda Rhimes’ latest project, The Catch. Walger will play Zoe, the wife of a con man (played by Peter Krause) who is probably also a bit of a con artist herself. She’s…
HBO has announced the slate of directors for the sixth season of its hit fantasy epic Game Of Thrones, with five men tapped to direct two episodes each of the 10-episode season. The list is a mixture of newcomers and Thrones veterans, including the director of the fifth season’s biggest action set piece, the massive…
“Through The Looking Glass” (originally aired 05/23/2007)
“Greatest Hits” (originally aired 05/16/2007)
