Daily Rec [TV]
By: LD · February 21, 2008
Time for a one-day break from music recommendations. Lost is back with a furious vengeance, and if you haven’t been paying attention, it’s time. Every episode is packing at least one plot-related revelation, and to say the show has been reinvigorated by having a planned conclusion is to understate things. Lost was always intermittently capable of being the best show on TV, but it was equally capable of being a meandering disappointment. By putting a cap on the length of the series, the meandering isn’t necessary any longer, and the show has been condensed into a consistently rewarding state. If you’re missing out now, there’s reason to think that you’re missing something that’s going to be great.
(To go off on a brief tangent, I don’t think this supports the argument that all American series should be handled like British television, where each series is finite. If that improved the quality of shows, I wouldn’t have lingering psychic scars from exposure to Torchwood. Certain concepts are designed to be finite (Lost, Daybreak) and others can go on indefinitely (procedurals in general))