io9: Lost Recap

The Smoke Monster doesn't want lemonade. The Smoke Monster wants blood!

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:32:53 PDT

A whole bunch of characters achieved their capital-D Destiny on Lost last night - which mostly seemed to involve reverting to being the people they'd started out as. You can run from the Smoke Monster, but not yourself. Spoilers below! More »

Last Night's Lost Was Cheesy — And That's A Good Thing

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:05:44 PDT

Let's face it, if the big mythology episode of Lost hadn't been cheesy as all get-out, you'd have been disappointed. It's about time this show let its true over-the-top colors fly. But exactly whose fall from grace did we witness? More »

Is It Still Called A God Complex If You Really Are The Messiah?

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 05 May 2010 03:15:38 PDT

Last night's Lost was all about Jack's God complex, both in the Island and "flash-sideways" realities. Why won't people listen to Jack? He can save them all. Really, he can. Spoilers ahead... More »

Lost At Its Best: Tearful Reunions, Backstabbing And Defining Choices

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:20:43 PDT

Last night on Lost, everybody made his/her move. Sawyer, Jack, Sayid and Claire all made defining choices... we just won't know for a while what exactly those choices were. And the two universes really started to sync up. Spoilers ahead. More »

We'll Judge Lost By How It Treats Hurley And Desmond

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:52:12 PDT

Last night's Lost really underscored that there are two compelling characters remaining on the show: Hurley and Desmond. We're probably going to judge the show's ending based on how it handles these two characters. Are you with me? Spoilers ahead... More »

15 Things We Learned In Last Night's Lost

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:02:18 PDT

So are you a bit more convinced now that Lost's final season is going someplace amazing? The Desmond-centric "Happily Ever After" recharged our faith in the "flash-sideways." Here are 15 cool things we learned last night. Spoilers ahead, brotha... More »

Nobody Gets To Raise Their Kids On Lost

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:12:11 PDT

Lost's producers promised that season six would feel like season one all over again. Last night, I finally realized why that can never be true. We also discovered, yet again, that Lost hates love stories with happy endings. Spoilers ahead... More »

Richard Alpert's Still A Slave, Man

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 01:32:24 PDT

Tonight we learned the story of Richard Alpert, Lost's most enigmatic character. And it turns out that Richard's arrival on the island was something of a turning point for everyone concerned. But what did it mean? Spoilers ahead... More »

Sawyer Is The King Of Pain

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:56:34 PDT

Sawyer tells lots of different stories to different people in last night's Lost, but really the only thing he wants to share is delicious, wholesome pain. And we discover that mommy issues are the new daddy issues. Spoilers below. More »

Please Don't Redeem Ben! We're Begging You.

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:33:44 PST

Lost's Benjamin Linus has hit rock bottom, both morally and psychologically. So now is he going to have a miraculous transformation into the Island's noblest character? Please, no. Just no. Spoilers for last night's Lost ahead. More »

What's So Bad About Being A Pawn Anyway?

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:00:00 PST

Sayid used to be one of my favorite characters on Lost, but he took a few too many random turns — even before he shot a kid. Now it seems like even Sayid doesn't like Sayid any more. Spoilers ahead... More »

Hurley And Jack's Somewhat Excellent Adventure

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:21:52 PST

I kind of hope Jacob winds up being the big villain of Lost. He's just so smug and manipulative, as evidenced by last night's totally awesome episode. Spoilers ahead. More »

Go Ahead And Tell Locke What He Can't Do. He Doesn't Mind.

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:10:04 PST

Is it too soon to wonder if Lost's latest gimmick is falling a bit flat? At the very least, last night's episode was the second in a row that Sawyer stole, and that feels significant. Spoilers below. More »

So Yeah... What Does Kate Care About?

Charlie Jane Anders — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:16:31 PST

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Last night's Lost was much better than we'd expected from a Kate-centric episode. Partly, this was because Kate did a teeny bit of growing as a person. And partly it was because Jack and Sawyer stole the show. Spoilers avast... More »

So, Two Guys Are Sitting On a Desert Island . . .

Lynn Peril — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:35:20 PDT

One's wearing a white shirt, the other black. Is it a smackdown between Good and Evil? Macs and PCs? Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Nope, it's the big Lost season five finale, with tons of spoilers ahead. More »

Lost's John Locke Has A New Social Contract

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 07 May 2009 16:08:09 PDT

John Locke, Lost's spiritual-questing outdoorsman, finally lived up to his name last night, offering his people a new social contract. But as with most contracts, you really gotta read the fine print. Spoilers below! More »

What Happened, Happened … Unless You Can Change the Past

Lynn Peril — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:48:07 PDT

Why did I read that huge Lost spoiler on io9 last week — and, more importantly, why did it turn out to be true? Spoilers and lamentation after the jump. More lethal spoilers, below. More »

Hurley Can See for Miles and Miles

Lynn Peril — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:34:15 PDT

The dynamic duo of Hurley and Miles teamed up again on last night's Lost for some soul searching — literally and figuratively. Spoilers and a confession after the jump. More »

It’s Judgment Day for Ben Linus

Lynn Peril — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:00:00 PDT

Mutton dressed as lamb in some bad wiggery, a monologue-ing villain, and one pissed-off teenager: Lost had it all this week. Get spoiled after the jump. More »

Kate Does The Right Thing

Lynn Peril — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:36:21 PDT

News flash! Last night's Lost was Kate-centric, and I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. Spoilers ahoy. More »

Sayid Jarrah, Natural Born Killer?

Lynn Peril — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:30:00 PDT

Oh, Sayid. You've done a very bad thing-or is it a very good thing? Oh, Lost, you've messed with my mind yet again. Spoilers ahoy! More »

Sawyer Is Right About Jack, After All

Charlie Jane Anders — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:24:41 PDT

Watching last night's Lost, I realized for the first time just how much I love this new version of Sawyer. I'd way rather follow him than Jack or Locke. Spoilers and snark ahead. More »

On the Island, Highs are in the Mid-Seventies

Lynn Peril — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:03:54 PST

Lost answered an all-important question last night (disco, punk, or Tony Orlando & Dawn?) when it showed us how Sawyer and crew spent the mid-1970s - the second time around. Let's dance, after the cut. More »

John Locke Gets Played Like A Card

Lynn Peril — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:00:00 PST

Last night's Lost was an hour-long festival of Locke, with a special guest appearance from the World's Biggest Kid (and I don't mean whiny Jack). Let's talk about it after the cut. More »

On Lost, They’re Leaving on a Jet Plane

Lynn Peril — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:12:31 PST

Though it featured lots of Jack and Kate, Lost delivered the goods last night... with a couple of exceptions. At least, I thought they were discordant notes, but let's discuss and recap after the jump. More »

On Lost, An Old Friend Stops By For A Smoke

Lynn Peril — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:30:14 PST

If last week's episode of Lost was one for the shippers, this week's was tailor-made for people like me, who dig the action and island mythology. Let's recap and discuss after the jump. More »

On Lost: As the Island Turns

Lynn Peril — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:00:00 PST

Last night's Lost was one for the shippers. Lots of Jack-Kate angst and a mopey Sawyer. Luckily there were some dramatic reveals for the rest of us. Let's talk about it behind the cut. More »

It’s Bombs Away on Lost!

Lynn Peril — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:54:23 PST

Hooray! Lost was 100% Kate-free last night. In fact none of the Oceanic 6 made an appearance — but, oh, yeah, it somehow managed to be an interesting episode nonetheless. Oodles of spoilers follow. More »

On Lost, the Island Skips, Skips, Skips in Time

Lynn Peril — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:54:58 PST

Lost is back! Let's sort through the tangle of weirdness, bad parenting and shirtlessness together, and may the flying spaghetti monster of your choice help us all. Spoilers follow. More »

Lost: The Beginning of the End—of Season 4, Anyway

Lynn Peril — Fri, 16 May 2008 14:40:41 PDT

Leave it to Lost to broadcast an episode titled "There's No Place Like Home" (the mantra Dorothy must repeat, while clicking the heels of her ruby slippers, to get back to Kansas) on May 15, the birthday of L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz series of books. Henry Gale, as you may remember, is Dorothy's uncle in the movie version of the Wizard of Oz, and the alias by which Ben Linus first introduces himself to the survivors of Flight 815. Anyway, as we go into the final two hours of the season (the week after next), the Losties seem closer to rescue than they've been since the crash. Spoilers follow. More »

Lost: Move It or Lose It

Lynn Peril — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:45:00 PDT

I love John Locke. I love Buddy Holly. And yesterday was my birthday, so it was nice that they both showed up in "Cabin Fever," last night's episode of Lost. Alas, "Everyday" wasn't released until 1957, which is a year after Locke's birthday (May 30, 1956). Maybe more time travel? Kidding, just kidding. Anyway, what a pleasure to get more of the story behind Locke's rendezvous with destiny. Recapitude and spoileration after the jump. More »

Lost: Just Who Is This Aaron Kid Anyway?

Lynn Peril — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:31:44 PDT

Appendectomies! Everybody's getting them — a major character in last night's episode of Lost ("Something Nice Back Home") and my brother-in-law last week. Of course, BIL had fancy-pants arthroscopic surgery in a hospital, not on a piece of airplane wreckage with Dharma-brand instruments—and I'm pretty sure he didn't want to stay conscious through the procedure. (Maybe they're both lucky the little devil wasn't pulled out through the closest possible orifice.) Lucky for me—and the rest of you who prefer action Lost to melodrama, Lost—"Something Nice Back Home" didn't turn out to be the Jack/Kate/Juliet soap opera I feared. Oh, there were some soapy/sappy moments to be sure, but on the whole it was a solid episode. More about the show, and nothing about my in-laws, after the jump. More »

Lost: Ben and Widmore Play a Game of Risk

Lynn Peril — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:20:00 PDT

Lost returned last night after a five-week break at a new later time with an action-packed (maybe a little too much so) episode. In the words of my Lost-loving friend Karen, Ben and Widmore are playing a giant game of Risk, as they fight their own personal war around the world and throughout time. But more about that and the rest of the "The Shape of Things to Come" after the jump. More »

Lost: Island Says Murder OK, But Suicide A No-No

Lynn Peril — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:30:23 PDT

Sad to say, my first thought on the return of island-escapee Michael to Lost was "ho hum." Quite possibly this was because of the everybody-saw-it-coming reveal, or the fact that I'm still mad at him for selling out everybody on the island. Maybe it's just the annoying way he bleats "WAAAAAALT!" I'm happy to say, however, that "Meet Kevin Johnson" was anything but boring. Michael may be as complex and flawed a character as there is on the show and kudos to Harold Perrineau for making me care what happens to him. Spoilers and discussion after the jump. More »

Lost Serves Up Lima Beans, Pandas, Blood, and Babies

Lynn Peril — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:35:23 PDT

Dear Sun, thank you, thank you, thank you for delivering that well-deserved smack to Juliet's smug little kisser last night. I've wanted to just that for, oh, a couple seasons now, and boy did it feel good when you did it for me. And that's not the only reason I enjoyed the most recent episode of Lost, which came back strong after last week's stumble. Spoilers and discussion after the jump. More »

Everyone Loves Juliet — And Mayhem Ensues

Lynn Peril — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:20:21 PST

Oh, Lost, Lost, why must you toy with me? Last week so good, this week so dull. We did, however, learn that I am not the only person holding on to VHS technology past its prime. Ben's got his secret videotape stashed away in a safe — and he also got one of the evening's best lines. I chose today's clip not only out of a sense of Luddite solidarity with Ben, but because one of the things I most enjoy about Lost is the rickety, antiquated nature of the island's technological infrastructure. We didn't get to see much of that last night, other than Faraday furiously typing code at the Tempest station. Instead, we got Juliet — lots and lots of Juliet. My least favorite character. Spoilers and discussion, after the jump. More »

Lost Goes Time Traveling and We Sort It Out for You

Lynn Peril — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:42:48 PST

When my husband got home from band practice last night, I had good and bad news for him. Last night's episode of Lost was the best in a long time, I told him, maybe one of the best ever—but, alas, our VCR didn't record it. (I know, we don't have TiVo, we live in the dark ages.) "The Constant" was a return to first- or second-season form: fast paced, entertaining, and enlightening. When it threatened to end on a note veering into soap opera territory, it came roaring back with one of those great Twilight Zone surprise twist endings that make Lost, when it's good, so very good. Let's get down to spoilers and discussion after the jump. More »

Kate Goes Baby Crazy in a Locke-ocracy

Lynn Peril — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:20:15 PST

Last night's Lost slowed down the pace a bit with a Kate-centric storyline, after three action-packed episodes. The weakest episode so far this season, "Eggtown" was nevertheless entertaining (Xanadu and box wine with Sawyer — now that's a date!) and enlightening (we learn about a cover story concocted by at least part of the Oceanic Six). Get spoilery in a bullet-point format after the jump. More »

Free the Oceanic 6!

peril — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:40:09 PST

You've got a pile of mangoes and a clean-shaven Future Jack mixing up his breakfast screwdriver: Welcome to Lost, season 4. Despite my whiny complaints and misgivings about the last season, I'm officially completely hooked again. Minor spoilers and recappage ahead. More »