Lost

I won't pretend that last night's "Lost" — called "S.O.S." — was great in terms of advancing the overall narrative of the show, although there was some of that. Liked Jack and Kate in the net. Remain curious about the way the captive Other has played with Locke's head. And Michael's back, apparently setting up [...]

Still wondering what message we should take from the use of Les McCann and Eddie Harris's version of "Compared To What," the song playing when Locke is exercising. Great tune, of course. I've had the album for years, and saw McCann and Harris perform it at the Hampton Jazz Festival back in the '70s. I [...]

I am still mulling over last night's episode, since I was fighting sleep when I watched it. Not because it made me sleepy, though. There was a lot going on, and not — as was the case in the new episode two weeks ago — baby steps of information. This felt as if the show [...]

Regular blog readers will recall my Jan. 18 post, "Ladies and Gentlemen, M.C. Gainey," about the actor's appearance on "Lost" as the apparent leader of the Others (the one Sawyer nicknamed Zeke). Not long after that post appeared, I received a very nice thank-you e-mail from Gainey's wife, Kim, and today Gainey himself was on [...]

I wanted to like "Lost" more tonight than I did. Part of that is my weariness with Charlie's lost-puppy saga — the big wet eyes, the whole please-love-me thing. (Of course, Charlie's need for affection fit nicely with the blossoming of other relationships among the survivors — and gosh, would it be nice to see [...]

"Lost" is one of those shows that I watch several different ways, and sometimes I forget that I'm doing it. Tonight I sat, a little uncomfortably, through most of the episode in my move-the-mystery-along mode. There really wasn't a lot of that. And even the promised reunion of the two survivor groups (I keep wanting [...]