Features
Wednesday, January 12 2011
The Best TV Shows of 2010
Running the gamut from the ever-present to the new and novel, PopMatters' TV picks prove that, as a medium, the small screen challenges the big at every entertainment (and aesthetic) level.
Friday, January 7 2011
The Year in Television Conspiracies
Secret, usually evil, plots dominated TV drama in 2010, from Lost, Rubicon, and Persons Unknown to 24, V, Flashforward, and Terriers.
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Friday, May 21 2010
Love Lost
Here we stroll down memory lane, recalling favored episodes of Lost, past. We remember with fondness as we stumble into the final episode, true ‘til the end, still trying to find our way.
Friday, May 21 2010
Lost, Dazed and Confused
Theories, conspiracies, clues... these writers stumble blindly about on the little islands in their minds, tripping over things, becoming ever more disoriented -- seeing, but alas, never realizing...
Columns
Monday, March 15 2010
Chronic 'Lost' Sickness
The Lost Syndrome has consumed me for five years running, and I'm growing weaker. It’s like X-Filesioma all over again.
Reviews
Tuesday, May 25 2010
The 'Lost' Finale Makes the Obvious Choice
With all this talk about "letting go" and "moving on," Lost awkwardly, and perhaps inadvertently, seemed to be grieving over itself. More profoundly, it seemed unable to forgive itself its own flaws, much like its hero.
Wednesday, January 28 2009
Lost: Season Five Premiere
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.
Monday, January 12 2009
Lost: The Complete Fourth Season
The order of myth becomes manifest in Season Four.
Tuesday, June 3 2008
Lost
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.
Thursday, February 7 2008
Lost
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.
Blogs
Wednesday, January 26 2011
Dear TV Executives: A Few New Years Resolutions Notes for 2011
Television executives should resolve to do a few things for me this year.
Wednesday, December 1 2010
Lost - The Complete Series
Lost - The Complete Series - ABC Studios [$279.99]
Monday, August 30 2010
Sometimes, a Title Says It All: 'Lost - The Complete Series'
With its open-ended ability to be interpreted and dissected, Lost, viewed as a whole, becomes cinematic in nature, literary in style and deeper meaning.
Monday, August 23 2010
Consumerism and the Fan: A LOST Case Study
Just as LOST established a new baseline for television creativity and found new ways equally to mesmerize and frustrate viewers, so did the LOST auction set a new standard for television-based consumerism.
Monday, May 24 2010
Lost on Me: One Man's Attempt to Survive the 'Lost' Finale
Because of all the mythological hokum, the smoke monster poppycock and the supernatural rigmarole woven through the fabric of Lost, it was already likely bound to become a televised sci-fi tent pole for years to come.
News
Tuesday, August 24 2010
Final season of 'Lost' leads newest Blu-ray titles
Well, we finally got all the answers on "Lost," or did we? Check it out for yourself with "Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season"…
Tuesday, May 25 2010
'Lost' finale leaves behind two islands of thought
LOS ANGELES — If "Lost" guaranteed anything with its terrifically moving but mythology-deprived series finale, it's that the show will go on, as fans spend…
Monday, May 24 2010
New fall TV season has network execs feeling good
This is a world of slumming millionaires and poopy-mouth parents, of horny fat people and murderous bitches, of val-gal assassins and plane-crash survivors trying to…
Sunday, May 23 2010
May 'Lost' mysteries never come to an end
LOS ANGELES — "Lost," the most complicated series in the history of television, will come to its end Sunday and without having seen a second…
Thursday, May 20 2010
New malware uses search terms like 'Lost' as bait
"Lost" fans searching for secrets of the ABC show's final episode may be in store for a nasty surprise: An infected computer. PandaLabs, a unit…
