During an appearance at Dragon Con this past weekend, Ant Man And The Wasp star Evangeline Lilly completed her personal version of jury duty—answering questions about the Lost finale. But rather than hem and haw about the objective quality of the hit series’ conclusion, Lilly instead forced fans to confront their own…
No matter your thoughts on how ABC’s Lost evolved over the years (or its bizarre vision of “heaven”), nearly everyone can agree that its pilot is a pretty perfect piece of television. Not only does it introduce a rich, freaky mystery laden with possibility, but it compellingly introduces a core ensemble of no less…
We’ve all had the experience of watching a beloved TV show only to realize that the best episodes of said TV show are already behind us. In those cases, we usually begrudgingly finish the series due to some misplaced sense of loyalty or because we aren’t aware of the sunk cost fallacy. But what if, using the powers of…
Nobody in TV bats a thousand. Well, maybe the British The Office. But, by and large, even the medium’s most vaunted series have a dud episode or two in the mix. Just look at Stranger Things’ second season last year, which paired us up with a bunch of bargain-bin X-Men in one of the most disappointing TV episodes in…
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…
This week’s question comes from reader Matt S.:
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.
When it comes to the discussion of one season, “canceled before their time” television, few networks get as much finger-pointing as Fox does. Google search autocompletes “Fox cancels” with “Fox cancels everything” or “Fox cancels everything good,” and plenty of pop-culture sites have featured such compilations as “The…
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…
This week’s question comes from contributor Evan Rytlewski:
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…
