I’ll post a Lostwatch overnight or early in the morning. In the meantime, I’ll leave you with a few questions to mull over in the hours before the two-hour premiere:  * We’ve seen Dharma, the Others, The Black Rock, the four-toed statues—just how long has the Island been inhabited anyway?  * What happened to the [...]

OK, this is cheating on Lost Day a bit, but as a service I should reprint my earlier review of what you won’t be watching if you’re watching Lost: the debut of Fox’s Lie to Me:  …Just as Zeitgeisty but less uplifting is Fox’s Lie to Me (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), which may be the [...]

…and what is Claire? When is she? How is she? Dead? Alive? Ghost? Human? None of the above?  Indeed, the whole Claire-Aaron axis is one of the most underexplained storylines of Lost in general—what’s so special about the kid, why did he need to be born on the Island, etc. I always thought Emilie de [...]

Gilbert Cruz of TIME’s Briefing section wrote the That Viral Thing column this week about “Previously on Lost,” a YouTube comedy clip about what happens to a foolhardy young man who tries to catch up with four seasons of Lost: All… at… once: Strangely enough, that’s pretty much the same spread I always have set [...]

One of the big topics we discussed at the Paley Center Lost panel was: how has Lost managed to draw in such huge audiences for what is basically a sci-fi show? And more important, now that it has blatantly introduced the elements of time (and space) travel (with the moving of the Island, Ben’s journey [...]

It is the most important holiday on the annual Tuned In calendar, which is to say: It’s Mrs. Tuned In’s birthday! And Mrs. Tuned In is getting a very special present this year—the return of Lost—which means that it’s also… Lost Day! Meaning that, unless Barack Obama manages to get himself inaugurated again or news [...]

  Spoilers for Big Love coming up after the jump:

Tomorrow, I’ll be liveblogging the Inauguration with the old gang from the election liveblogs: Karen Tumulty and Michael Grunwald. We’ll start around 9:30 a.m. or so, continuing until… who knows? I’ll post a link when one’s live, or find us through the main time.com liveblogs page. Yes! You can!

Watching We Are One, the inaugural celebration concert in Washington on HBO, I kept thinking of transformation. Not “change,” that politically-charged-to-the-point-of-meaninglessness concept, but rather the way that great (and even not-so great) American songs (and even not American songs) evolve over time.  Take the opening performance (after the National Anthem): Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising. The [...]

As part of my day of service to the nation, I will post a Big Love Watch later this morning, but as I wrote below, I’m only one man, so I’m officially throwing open this post for discussion of last night’s United States of Tara debut, Flight of the Conchords’ return, the Obama concert (which [...]

Just in time for tonight’s season premiere of Flight of the Conchords, time.com has posted the FOTC feature I wrote for the print magazine, based on a set visit last fall and having seen the first three new episodes. Bret really was duct-taped to the apartment door, though I believe he had some type of [...]

If you’ve watched last night’s return episode of Battlestar Galactica, and are the kind of person who is reading a TV blog on the weekend, then you are probably the kind of person who will want to jump over—like now—to Mo Ryan, who has an exhaustive interview with Ron Moore on “Sometimes a Great Notion,” [...]

Spoilers for the midseason premiere of Battlestar Galactica after the jump:

  Time for a housekeeping note. As my TV review this week notes, America’s programmers this month, the bastards, are debuting or returning too much good TV to the schedule. I feel a little like one of the patrons in the SNL Limits of the Imagination sketch about the “all-you-can eat” restaurant where the customers [...]

This Saturday around 4 p.m., I’ll be appearing at New York’s Paley Center in a panel about Lost, for which I have terrifyingly been misidentified as a “Lost expert.” (Without Lostpedia at my fingertips, I would be nothing.) We have a good panel, though, and besides a 30-minute preview of the season 5 premiere, the [...]