“LaFleur” rebooted the Season 5, kicking off a major new story arc for the show which finds our beloved castaways living among the Dharma Initiative in the 1970s. Reviews were largely very positive for the ep, though a few critics had trouble with the back-and-forth-through-time nature o...

They went and done it again. It’s a whole new ball game, kiddies. So saddle up, and let’s find out just exactly why Lost’s showrunners have been calling Season 5 “the year of Sawyer.” It was a wild hour full of everything Lost does best, with one incredible moment of dr...

“The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham,” the 7th episode of Lost Season 5, generated the most mixed responses of any episode yet this year. Some are fiercely passionate about the show’s sudden return to more emotion-based storytelling, while others feel let down that John Locke̵...

He’s aliiiiive! But really, was there ever any doubt? The long-awaited flashback story of Jeremy Bentham, aka “John Locke off the island,” was remarkably straightforward, with very few real surprises. There were a few, though, and the best one came at the very end. Favorite line: &...

Spoilers for tonight's "Lost" coming up just as soon as I eat a mango... "There is no helping me. I'm a failure." -John Locke I sit here, typing this review, in simple awe of Terry O'Quinn. Structurally, "The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham" was almost identical to last week's "316": exciting scene...

By Todd VanDerWerff I’m sure ten million Lost fans have made this joke already, but “The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham� was essentially The Passion of John Locke (Terry O’Quinn). Not for nothing, apparently, did the last episode prominently focus on Jack’s (Matthew Fox) role as the doub...

The first six episodes of this season could have been an entire season all by themselves. There’s been more revelations and crucial plot developments per minute of screen time than in all the past seasons combined. And in this six-episode season scenario, “316″ would serve as the p...

By Todd VanDerWerff For the first time this season, I feel completely stymied by Lost , and I sort of don’t know what to say about it. It did a lot of the things I wanted it to (using the tale of the Oceanic 6 returning to the Island to delve more deeply into their characters), and it had a bunch ...

This week’s metareview of Lost 5.05 “This Place is Death” features a ton of new review/recap sources for your reading pleasure. There are no less than 19 reviews linked and excerpted. Enjoy! Entertainment Weekly ’s Doc Jensen: …let’s swipe one of Ms. Hawking’...

Charlotte: “This place is death!” Yup, it is! I love Lost! Recap: So tonight we see the return of the dreaded smoke monster! Yay! But it’s still as mysterious as ever. Boo. It’s supposed to be the island’s “defense mechanism” and apparently it also clones pe...