Russ McBee

During this season's ''Lost'' finale, ABC ran a commercial for a company called ''Octagon Global Recruiting.'' The commercial and the website seek volunteers to work on the DHARMA Initiative. Visitors to the site may register for email notifications of their recruitment drive, which will kick off at ComicCon in San Diego next month. This morning, ...

The fourth season of ''Lost'' ended with a bang. In my opinion, this has been the best season so far, due in no small part to the narrative discipline imposed by the writer's strike. With or without the strike, though, Season 4 has focused more on exposition than any of the previous three. Where each of the prior three seasons raised about ten ...

This week's ''Lost'' episode is the initial chapter of the Season Four finale. ''There's No Place Like Home, Part 1'' invokes the ending of ''The Wizard Of Oz'' in its title, although the homecoming for the Oceanic Six turns out to be substantially more complicated than merely clicking one's heels and thinking of Kansas. The Oceanic Six make it ...

''Cabin Fever'', this week's episode of ''Lost,'' brought us a little closer to the rescue of the Oceanic Six, reinforced the suggestion that Claire is dead, painted a picture of John Locke as some sort of Dalai Lama over the island, and revealed that the island is capable of being moved from one location to another. ''Lost'' is the only TV show ...

As I do every week, I watch ''Lost'' online a day or two after it airs on TV. In the meantime, I deliberately avoid reading any reviews or commentary online about that episode. Before writing this post, I've maintained that practice, so I still haven't seen what anyone else has to say about this week's episode, ''Something Nice Back Home.'' This ...

If the title of this week's ''Lost'' episode (''The Shape Of Things To Come'') is to be taken literally, we're in for a mighty exciting ride in future episodes. This episode was tight, the narrative was fast-paced and controlled, and the story jumped forward in several different respects. The episode blew several of my pet theories right out of ...

This week's ''Lost'' episode, ''Meet Kevin Johnson,'' told the story of how Michael ended up as Ben's man on the freighter. As Barry pointed out in comments here, Michael left the island, ''found rescue,'' made it back to New York under an assumed name, tried to kill himself in a car accident, recovered from his injuries, encountered Tom, got ...

This week's episode of ''Lost'' is named after Sun and Jin's baby, Ji Yeon, whose birth is shown in a flash-forward. Several tidbits are revealed in this episode. We now know the identities of all of the Oceanic Six: Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun, and Aaron. The last one assumes, of course, that the baby named Aaron we saw in the flash-forward ...

This week's ''Lost'' episode, ''The Other Woman,'' followed the familiar pattern of raising more questions (about 100) than it answered (about 2). Juliet's former therapist, Harper, appeared to Juliet amid the Whispers and a rain storm to deliver a warning (allegedly from Ben): the freighter people Charlotte and Daniel were supposedly on their ...

As I confessed in an earlier post, this non-TV-watching dude is now completely obsessed with ''Lost.'' The syndrome keeps getting worse. Last week's episode, ''The Constant,'' shows once and for all that the central mystery of the island, the DHARMA Initiative, and probably other aspects of the story all relate to time travel. I'm guessing that ...