Original Airdate: 1/5/2005
Written By: Damon Lindelof, Jennifer Johnson
Directed By: Jack Bender
Character: Kate
Days Twenty One-Twenty Two

Whatever the case may be, this episode is first and foremost about trying to dig up secrets that just want to stay hidden. We open playfully on Kate and Sawyer having sexy jungle banter. Despite Sawyer's professed ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 12/8/2004
Written By: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed By: Stephen Williams
Character: Jack
Day Sixteen

Some famous cowboys: Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, John Wayne, Will Rogers, The Lone Ranger and Tonto, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and everything Clint Eastwood has ever made. And then of ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 12/1/2004
Written By: Lynne E. Litt
Directed By: Marita Grabiak
Character: Claire
Days Fifteen - Sixteen

For Sayid, it's been five days; for the other Losties, it's been a week; but for you, dear readers, it's been five months. Five long months of life without these reviews. I'm sure you cried yourself to sleep nightly. Or maybe ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 11/17/2004
Written By: David Fury
Directed By: Greg Yaitanes
Character: Sayid
Days Twelve - Thirteen

I'm afraid I'm going to have to start this one off with an apology, too. August has dawned and with it comes my last semester as an undergrad. Which means I will be incredibly busy and might not want to spend my only day off taking five ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 11/10/2004
Written By: Damon Lindelof
Directed By: Tucker Gates
Character: Sawyer
Days Nine - Ten

Before I begin this review, I must take a couple sentences to apologize for my absence. It has been too long since my last review. I sat down to watch this episode not two days after I finished my review of The Moth, took notes and ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 11/3/2004
Written By: Jennifer Johnson, Paul Dini
Directed By: Jack Bender
Character: Charlie
Day Eight

This is is the second week in a row that the episode has been named after a song. This time, it's Aimee Mann's "The Moth". "The Moth" is a song full of longing, flirting with danger and temptation, all of which (big surprise) are ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 10/27/2004
Written By: Javier Grillo-Marxuach
Directed By: Michael Zinberg
Character: Sun
Day Seven

To begin this review, I'm going to pick the most obscure, throwaway part of the episode: when Kate and Jack find the black and white stones in the cave. I'm starting at this seemingly random point because, aside from their obvious good ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 10/20/2004
Written By: Christian Taylor
Directed By: Kevin Hooks
Character: Jack
Day Six

As I was watching this episode, I couldn't help thinking about The Matrix. Follow the white rabbit, Neo! Follow the white rabbit! Er, I mean, Jack. Follow the white rabbit, Jack! Alice in Wonderland references are very efficient ways to represent a ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 10/13/2004
Written By: David Fury
Directed By: Jack Bender
Character: Locke
Days Four - Five

I said in my reviews of the pilot that Locke had a very good reason for being the only happy person on the island. I also claimed that no one on the island, even Kate, comes close to the freedom and sense of belonging that Locke feels upon ( Read more... )

Original Airdate: 10/6/2004
Written By: Damon Lindelof
Directed By: Jack Bender
Character: Kate
Days Two - Four

And here we have it, the first "real" Lost episode. Centered around a single character and a main, central theme, in some ways it is much easier to get a handle on than the pilot. In other ways, it's much harder. The writers know many things ( Read more... )