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. [...]

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 [...]

“Year of med school before I dropped out. I’m a clinical psychologist.”

In “The Other 48 Days” Libby tells Ana-Lucia that she’s not a doctor. No, of course not, because then it’d be one more person on the island who probably met Jack “in another life,” as Desmond might say.
I’ve been waiting for the pay off [...]