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in Series, Featured ShowsHow Lost’s Structure Expresses Its Themes
Introduction The structure of Lost is one of flashbacks, flash-forwards, flash-sideways, and more. It’s a show that from the beginning tried something new every episode. Sometimes these things worked and other times, not so much. However, I believe that the various structures are key to the show’s themes. I’ve always loved television episodes with flashbacks. […] More
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What’s in a Name? References in Lost to Real World Figures
One of the most striking things about Lost has always been the sheer number of character names that seem to allude to real world people throughout history. There are so many, in fact, that I’m prone to wonder whether perhaps some of them are incidental. I don’t quite think there are, but I’m also not […] More
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The New Man in Charge: Revisiting Lost’s Epilogue
The ending of Lost was inevitably going to be controversial. Years later, while it’s more accepted, it’s still a heavily debated topic any time you mention it on Twitter or elsewhere. About three months after the finale aired, an epilogue to the series titled “The New Man in Charge” was included in the boxset for […] More
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in Series
Beyond the Screen #2: Loki’s Variant is a Crisis for the Establishment
In a new weekly column called Beyond the Screen, author A. J. Black unpacks what we’re all discussing from the world of cinema and television. This time, he consider’s Marvel’s Loki two episodes in and what it might be saying about order and chaos… There was a moment watching Loki’s second episode where he was described […] More
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Live Together, Die Alone and Its Impact on Lost
I’ve said for years that Season 2 of Lost was the show at its finest. That’s in no way a knock on what came before or what would come after but Season 2 set the standard. Every season of Lost felt like a book in a series, each with its own stories and ways of […] More
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in Episodes
WandaVision S1E8: “Previously On” and Meta-textual Context
For a television show constructed on narrative tropes, ‘Previously On’ puts an exclamation mark on the point WandaVision has been making since the beginning: it knows there is an audience tuning in. From the beginning of the series, as we found Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) & the Vision (Paul Bettany) existing within the confines of […] More
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Lost: “Ab Aeterno“ Gives Answers But Leaves Room for Theories
When word got out that Lost Season 6 would feature a Richard Alpert centric episode, anticipation was at a fever pitch. While characters such as Jacob and the Man In Black’s backstories could have potentially yielded more mythological answers, fans such as myself had waited years to learn more about Richard. We’d seen glimpses of […] More
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Lost: How “LAX” Split The Timeline And Split The Fandom
The premiere of Lost‘s sixth and final season, “LAX” was a double length episode that dealt a lot with symmetry and duality. Two timelines, the episode is sometimes split into two parts, and then the episode itself cemented the divide within the fandom. There was a large, vocal group who weren’t completely onboard with the […] More
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“The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham” Still Haunts and Asks Big Questions
It had been over five years since I last watched “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham”. I recalled it being a really good episode of Lost, and one that sometimes gets overshadowed by others when thinking about standout episodes in the series. What I wasn’t prepared for when revisiting this episode was how emotional […] More
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“The Constant” Shows Why Desmond Is the Heart and Soul of Lost
S4E5 of Lost, “The Constant,” is one of the most memorable episodes of the entire series. And for good reason. It features plenty of mystery, it introduces a few key elements that will play larger roles later in the show, and it has one of the best displays of love ever to be seen in […] More
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Lost Season 2 and the Question of Faith
Most avid television viewers can rattle off a list of their favorite shows. Many of us can take that list and narrow it down to a few classic shows that will stand the test of time to us. Then, there’s that next layer of obsessives who take things a little bit further and examine their […] More
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Lost: “The Shape Of Things To Come” & The Beginning of The End Game
Lost‘s fourth season stands out for many reasons. It was the first season with “flashforwards” as a storytelling vehicle. It was the first season to begin after the announcement was made that the series would end after the sixth season, a groundbreaking decision that would impact television as a whole moving forward. The season also […] More
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