Get Your Lost On
It's one of the smartest, best acted series in the history of television. At a time when more and more tube time is consumed by amateur singers, cheating couples on lie-detectors and obese people trying to lose weight for rewards, Lost is a monument to genre-bending fiction that raises profound questions about religion, science and the human condition.
But try telling that to someone who has never seen the show, right? They look at you with the patience and sad sympathy one gives a homeless man who insists his shopping cart contains the Holy Grail. Only you can't give a Lost fan a dollar in the hope they'll go away.
It's an open secret that tonight another long-time cast member will die. In a salute to Lost mania, WTN offers a short film and a few clips:
First, a commercial urging that you get some Perspective:
And now a short film about Lost Love, or Lost and Love, or Lost and just plain Lust. It poses a profound question: how far would you go for disc 6 of a Lost box set:
And, as an afterward, a nice little mash-up between Lost and The Office, a show that frequently references Lost. Lost creator J.J. Abrams directed an episode last year:
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