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Lost Discussion Group: Do They Know Where They're Going To?

Just a couple weeks left of Lost summer school (I’m on vacation the last two weeks of August), so I thought I’d try a meta-question that’s kind of haunted the margins of the LDG, and, in fact, pretty much every discussion about Lost that anybody ever has: Do the producers of Lost have the series [...]

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JPTV: Summer TV Burns Its Corpses

Last hurrah for the Knights. ABC/PATRICK HARBRON It’s summer and that means the whiff of smoke in the air… charcoal, roasting marshmallows and–sniff? what’s that?–the acrid smell of the networks burning off their failed shows from the previous season. NBC has already torched Studio 60 over the summer and ABC did Traveler. Tonight, the alphabet [...]

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Damages Watch: Family Affair

SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, watch Damages. And check your mail. Carefully. So of course the week after I decide to do a Watch on Damages, the show serves up an episode that… well, I don’t have that much to say about. That’s maybe the peril of writing about a series that’s more [...]