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

To the cast of Lost and its creators: Thanks for the memories! We’ve done it again, folks—another Tuesday in the bag and one more Lost episode to digest. I’m chewing over the minutiae like a boy who’s been tasked with finishing an extra stalk of broccoli before he can leave the table. Tonight’s episode was [...]

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

I wonder if Lost’s creators sit down to watch the episodes as they air. I imagine the two of them sitting together—there’s two of them, right?—on a sagging couch in the dark somewhere, the light from the TV illuminating their lumpy bodies. They watch the recap of the previous week’s episode and joke about the [...]

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

Dude, you can’t triple stamp a double-cross! No erasies. Michael Landon’s on TV. He’s on a TV on my TV, inside this episode of Lost, and he’s teaching Laura about life and death. It’s a snip from Little House on the Prairie, and the curly-haired saint is sharing his thoughts on achieving eternal life through [...]

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

No one should ever dig their own grave. Not even Ben Linus. Episode six, people! Let’s do this thing! Lives hang in the balance, opposing armies grow in ranks, and ABC’s voiceover talent sets the stage for a dramatic comeuppance—Will Ben Linus, hapless murderer of the revered Jacob, finally get his? Spoiler: his life is [...]