Lower Decks

Contains spoilers through “Olivia,” originally broadcast 9/23/10. At this point, I’ve got to feel a little gratified, because show I like has managed to make it to a third season. Granted, I know that a lot of shows like that have lasted as long, a little longer, and I still feel a little cheated, for [...]

Before anyone knew it for certain, ‘Heroes’ completed its run pretty much as it had started out, and at pretty much the same point everyone last cared about it: Claire, the cheerleader, trying to kill herself, but because she obviously couldn’t, it was all about the meaning of the act. The first time, it was [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about the LOST finale, and the opinions seem to be split.  Some people loved it, seeing it as the perfect culmination of six years of storytelling.  Some people didn’t love it, as it didn’t explain some of the questions that were eating at people since the show began.  And [...]

Remember when Lost was about a bunch of people on an island? When it was about a paraplegic who suddenly discovered he could walk? A mysterious group with an equally mysterious number of mysterious stations? A drug addict trying to redeem himself? A doctor who believed survival depended on living together? A man willing to [...]

And there you have it.  After six years, the last “regular” episode of LOST is in the books. And after six years of questions have been raised on the show, a lot of people have been concerned that the answers wouldn’t be coming.  But with only the two and a half hour finale remaining, I [...]

What kind of show would make an episode where absolutely zero main characters appear in any new footage?  Where the main plot takes place entirely in a period thousands of years before any of us were even born?  What kind of show formally introduces characters that are immensely tied to the mythos with only three [...]

We all knew it was coming.  With LOST, you’d always had that fear inside that anyone could go at any time.  From Boone’s untimely death in the first season and Shannon’s surprising death in the sixth episode, we knew that no one was safe on the Island.  And with the shocking double murder of Ana-Lucia [...]

If you don’t know yet, Losties, this is it.  “The Last Recruit” feels like the final calm before the storm, and with only three regular episodes to go, you have to know that things are about to kick into gear.  Because the alternate universe is starting to come together, and all of the action in the [...]

With the final season of ‘Lost’ in full swing, ‘Entertainment Weekly’ wrote about the failure of subsequent attempts to replicate that experience on TV (including ‘Day Break,’ which I would wager was a wild if short-lived success, and the origin of the “Decision. Consequence.” theme recently referenced in one of my ‘Fringe‘ reviews). Steph Mineart [...]

Hurley-centric episodes are supposed to be fun.  For the most part, Hurley is on the show for comic relief, and that’s why it’s a pretty big treat whenever he gets to do anything meaningful.  Because the title is correct – everyone does love Hugo.  But in what is almost certainly the last Hurley-centric episode of [...]