In an earlier post I said that dream sequences are a writer’s crutch. They can mean everything and nothing all at once. Weird for its own sake is the realm of the art school film. Thankfully, the dream sequences in ? were very effective.
For one thing, they were literal. No BS symbolism or esoteric nonsense. [...]

This happens from time to time. Someone I know hasn’t seen a handful of episodes from season one of Lost and we head over to their house for a DVD marathon.
Strangely enough we ended up watching episodes that were rerun this past month. The Moth, House of the Rising Sun, and Confidence Man were the [...]

Actually, that’s exactly what my pal Sharon thinks of Libby’s shameless dress fitting shenanigans in The Swan’s modern laundry room.

Someone asked me why there’s a first season episode being rerun this week. We can all agree that Lost’s plot is convoluted and accomplishes, successfully or not, more plot twists that what most television series do in their entire run.
This week’s rerun from season one is “Numbers”.
Every time you see a rerun it’s a reminder [...]

“Save the baby Charlie.”

Lost’s episodes that favor character development over advancing the plot are precarious. It’s as though you’re telling a large part of the audience “Keep squirming and we’re going home. Now sit still and learn something.” Sometimes it pays in spades, as it did with Mr. Eko’s backstory in The 23rd Psalm; sometimes [...]