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Has TV lost its nerve? Why engrossing dramas keep getting kicked off the island

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[6.Mar.09] :. Launching a broadly successful TV show is possible. No, really, it is. We hear a lot about the fractured media environment, and most of us - network suits and civilians alike - have accepted the...

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Lost: Season Five Premiere

by Daynah Burnett

[28.Jan.09] :. As the fifth season begins, the structural fluidity that makes Lost so exciting and unusual has been pushed to the forefront. That's right: we're officially talking time travel.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008 Feature

Back to Basics - The 30 Best TV Shows of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Jan.09] :. The Year in TV was a lot like the US economy: struggling until summer and then tanking under the hope of a 2009 comeback. Still, our staff found 30 solid reasons to be cheerful come entertainment investment time.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2008

 

TV Review

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[3.Jun.08] :. While I still maintain that this season of Lost, commenced with a lurch, I'm pleased to report that it closed out plain better than ever.

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TV Review

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[7.Feb.08] :. Sometime between Hurley's car chase and Naomi's resurrection, it occurred to me that I'm never going to get satisfactory answers to Lost's fast-accumulating questions.

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PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007 Feature

High Redefinition: The 30 Best TV Shows of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[18.Jan.08] :. In memoriam of a TV season cut down before its prime time, PopMatters staff celebrates the Top 30 TV Shows of 2007. Some are old favorites. Others have barely made their impression felt. But at a time when all broadcast fortunes are up in the air, they definitely deserve the recognition.

PopMatters Picks: The Best TV, Film, and DVD of 2007

 

Performance Art: The Best Acting of 2007 - Female

by PopMatters Staff

[9.Jan.08] :. From the most sweetly nuanced performance of Jennifer Jason Leigh's career to Cate Blanchett's revelatory portrayal of Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, the women of 2007 were stellar.

 

Part 5 - Beyond the Envelope

by PopMatters Staff

[12.Oct.07] :. The format forced the issue among cult and commercial products. And TV on DVD highlighted the cream of the creative, forward thinking crop.

 

Jodie Foster explains why her new movie is ‘subversive’

by Barry Koltnow [The Orange County Register (MCT)]

[17.Sep.07] :. That’s her word, not ours. Sitting in a posh suite at the Beverly Hills Hotel over a lunch of smoked salmon and blinis, the two-time Oscar winner points her fork as she makes her argument....

 

The Brave One

by Cynthia Fuchs

[14.Sep.07] :. For all the hubbub about the sensational girl shooter, The Brave One is almost more interesting for its flaws and omissions.

 

Woman with gun: Jodie Foster in ‘The Brave One’

by Steven Rea [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[6.Sep.07] :. Jodie Foster is in Queensland, Australia, on the phone, in a room looking over the ocean. It’s early morning, and a storm is blowing. “There’s rain and huge waves—sideways...

 

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[31.May.07] :. After Season Three's finale, Lost and I have made up now, and it looks like we're working towards a real future together. Finally.

 

“Asian mom torches spouse!“Provoked (2006)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.May.07] :. By offsetting Women in Cages-style throw-downs with Malcolm X-like uplift, it is simultaneously strange and familiar, inspiring and annoying.

 

Net-Works: The Best TV of 2006

by PopMatters Staff

[10.Jan.07] :. You won't have to look far along your television dial to discover the Top TV picks from PopMatters staff. From 20 upward, each entry represents the boob tube at its best.

 

Lost: Season Three Premiere

by Marisa LaScala

[11.Oct.06] :. Squabbles over book clubs, burned muffins, and broken plumbing are not what one would expect from the marauding band of brutes who have captured and brutalized some of the island's most cuddly inhabitants.

 

Lost

by Daynah Burnett

[3.Oct.06] :. Sometimes -- when I'm buying the Lost-companion novel Bad Twin or navigating the perplexing websites of the Dharma Project's sponsor The Hanso Corporation -- I think if Lost were my boyfriend, we'd have to break up.

 

Lost / The Amazing Race

by Jonathan Beebe

[3.Oct.06] :. Of course, we know that Lost's producers are an international '911' call away, should anything go terribly wrong, but for the most part, the contestants are left to their own devices.

 

Bride & Prejudice (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Jul.05] :. Lalita is daring independent whose education involves coming to terms with both her constraining heritage and her desire to fit in.

 

Lost

by Glenn McDonald

[14.Jun.05] :. This is a story about human beings who were, in some way, lost well before they boarded their flight.

 

Bride & Prejudice (2004)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Feb.05] :. In Bride & Prejudice, Lalita is at once the skeptic and the convert-to-be.

 

Lost

by Marco Lanzagorta

[4.Oct.04] :. In Lost, the remnants of civilization loom ominously.

 

Rollerball (2002)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[7.Feb.02] :. PULL.

 

Lost

by Jesse Hassenger

Lost survives because its mix of fantasy and mystery, character development and plot twists, predictability and sharp twists -- in short, its mix of cleverness and crap -- is like nothing else on TV.