The Outsider’s Guide to Lost’s Last Season: Episode Four

“There’s a dawgness growing in him.”

A quarter of the way through this dense thicket of mystery and my addled brain can hardly stand the shock. The rapid plot line hopping—the dizzying cast from one time or place unto another—is taking its toll. I hardly have a moment to process a particular scene’s dynamics, to look [...]

The Outsider’s Guide to Lost’s Last Season: Episode Three

No earthly man could ever hold a stare like Zombie John.

Zombie John is on a mission. I can see it in his eyes, those fearless eyes, and they don’t betray a thing. They are nothing like Zombie Jacob’s eyes; no kindness, no empathy. Zombie John is a man of darker origins. He has answers, he’s [...]

The Outsider’s Guide to Lost’s Last Season: Episode Two

The air outside is thick with snow and Chicago’s streets are layered with frosty berms of powdery white. Inside, the air is thick with tension. Sawyer is asking Kate about the Temple guards—”How many of them did you see?”—and it’s clear that he’s contemplating his odds. “I’m going to bust out of here,” he says, [...]

The Outsider’s Guide to Lost’s Last Season: Episode One

Breaking bread and drinking from Lost’s cup.

I’m two hours into Lost’s final season and I already feel as though I’m trifling with a world of which I know too little. I have stumbled upon an ancient book of spells in the forgotten wing of the library and conjured the road to hell with a cursory [...]