The film successfully argues that it’s through sensory details that we access the deeper aspects of our lives.
Although possessing far less than a hatchful of extra features, this is still a DVD set you’d want to take with you to that proverbial desert isle.
Lost is a show fairly obsessed by notions of duality.
The episode plays less like an individual segment of the show and more like a long prelude to the two-hour finale.
The more we get to know the people who are behind the scenes on Lost, the more we realize just how much our point-of-view characters are looking in on a battle they will never really understand.
Father issues are to the Lost flashback what cancer is to a diagnosis on House.
Michael Emerson maybe has the trickiest part to play on Lost.
What is the formula that drives most TV series but a pleasant form of inevitability.
The constantly dilating timeline of Lost continually forces the viewer to recalibrate what they’ve already experienced.
One of the more enervating things about Lost is the way that it will occasionally mistake name checking, say, a famous philosopher for depth.
One of the things that makes “Namaste” so much fun is the way it convolutes itself within the timeline we’ve already seen.
For the first time this season, we feel completely stymied by Lost.
It almost feels silly to complain about how overstuffed an episode was when all of the stuff going into it was as compelling as what happened in “This Place Is Death.”
I suspect when all is said and done that the history of Lost will cleave it pretty neatly into two different shows.
Though based on a popular video-game series, Xavier Gens’s Hitman plays like a music video without the music.
“Greatest Hits” is the closest Lost has come to a perfect episode since its pilot.
Lost’s viewership is more savvy than most.
Lost doesn’t just name check the pop culture phenomena that have inspired and co-exist with it.
The Others might be terrorists, but they have families, homes and moments of humanity just as real as the show’s protagonists.
There seems to be more Lost doubters than usual these days.