For those who might've lost interest or faith in Lost (new watchers, never mind, you'll never get up to speed): the series suddenly rocks anew. A deft exercise in Tarantino-esque narrative manipulation, last night's installment "Exposé" recapped three seasons of the show through the POV of two minor, expendable characters, including a revisitation of the infamous pilot episode's "crash on the beach." (Which means the producers shot footage from that expensive opening for use many shows later in the story arc? Seems so.) What critic tedg calls "folding" abounds--one of the expendable characters guest-stars in a TV trash series called Exposé, a clip of which is seen at the beginning of her back story, an equally trash noir tale of a jewel heist she pulls off with another island crash survivor, all framed within Lost's own Survivors vs Others uber-narrative and climaxing with a macabre, Poe-like ending. Russian toy dolls-within-dolls that figure prominently in the story mimic the nested plots. Humorously, only the comic relief character Hurley has actually watched Exposé, but loves it.

Last week's show, "The Man From Tallahassee," also a keeper, featured flashbacks--finally--explaining how John Locke got in the wheelchair he mysteriously no longer needs. One wishes the writers would cut the poor bastard a break--the scheming cult leader Ben Linus (Torwald) immediately undermines Locke's moment of decisive heroism involving the Others' submarine: played again.

- tom moody 3-29-2007 9:22 pm

Just caught up last night. Great episode! Wish I had something more insightful to add, but there you go.

I agree it would be hard for someone new to get up to speed, but Expose did seem like some sort of attempt to allow this to happen. You'd have sort of a skewed understanding of everything if you started there, but at least you'd have a little taste of a bunch of it. And for short term memory impaired people like me it's always nice to go over the past a few times.

I wish it was on every night.
- jim 3-30-2007 7:01 pm


Yeah, I like it so much I'm putting up with commercials (muted).

I liked the scene of Ben and Juliet overheard from the toilet of the Swan station (or was it the Pearl?).

I really need to watch "Not In Portland" if I can schedule 45 minutes to goggle at your computer sometime soon.
- tom moody 3-31-2007 7:16 am





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