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
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
Lost S5E11, “Whatever Happened, Happened,” begins with the aftermath of the previous episode (“He’s Our You”), which saw Sayid shooting a young Benjamin Linus. The logic for doing so is fairly clear. Sayid has found himself back in 1977, but knows of the terrible things that Ben will do later. He himself has gone around […] More
Spoiler Warning! If you haven’t read Doomsday Clock in its entirety or watched all of the Watchmen TV Show and you wish to do either, don’t let this article deprive you of a spoiler-free experience, as it contains major ones for both. If you’re still here, then you’ve done your research, so let’s continue. You […] More
Here at 25YL, we love music—so much so that we’ve just rolled out a music department! But what is perhaps all the more powerful than a great song is when the music in a TV show or film perfectly supplements the action, deepens the emotional stakes, or otherwise just fits so well that it becomes […] More
There is an entity that appears in our favorite science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories—a living substance that elicits both disgust and excitement in the human imagination. It’s related to the bad black barf and black blood TV tropes, but while those examples are relatively inert and formless, ‘black goo’ refers to a class of […] More
There’s something very fitting about this decade being bookended by shows Damon Lindelof was at the helm of. In January of 2010, television fans were abuzz about long-time ABC hit Lost coming to an end. As 2019 comes to a close, Watchmen, Lindelof’s third hit series to air in the past 10 years, is the […] More
For me, “Flashes Before Your Eyes” was one of the best episodes of Lost. It was the first time we’d seen the flashback formula used in an entirely different way. This wasn’t just a case of us seeing Desmond’s past; he had somehow traveled back to relive it. He was aware that he was in […] More
Let me start with a confession (there’s no other way around it): I am not an unconditional fan of Lost. In fact, as far as the work of Damon Lindelof, one of Lost’s main showrunners, is concerned, I think The Leftovers (where this article has taken its title from) is not only better than Lost, […] More
Let’s start right at the end: Jack’s in the back room of the church. On the stained glass window over his shoulder, we can see six religious symbols—one for Christianity, Islam, Taoism, Judaism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Jack takes a deep breath, and he finally musters the courage to look inside his father’s casket. There’s nothing […] More
Sometimes a TV show is more than just a TV show to us. It becomes a part of us, a part of our soul. When we talk about it, it sounds more like we’re talking about a friend or loved one rather than something we view alongside millions of other people. This typically happens when […] More
The discovery of the hatch in Lost was one of the biggest mysteries of the show’s early years. I can’t tell you how much time I spent theorizing about what was under that door. How many people were down there? What were they doing? Why did it say “Quarantine” on the hatch? Would opening it […] More
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