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Spoilers for How I Met Your Mother’s season finale coming up:
We’ve reached the end of another season of How I Met Your Mother. How far have we come? Robin dated Barney, then dated Don, and is now single again. Barney is hooking up with as many people as possible. Ted is… well, Ted is blond. The people who have come closest to …
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The finale of Lost belonged to that rare, much-analyzed and treacherous category of series finale: the ending of a TV phenomenon while it’s still a phenomenon. Success or disaster, only a handful of series—Seinfeld, Friends, The Fugitive, The Sopranos—get this kind of send-off, much less at a time of their own choosing.
There are …
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I’m not going to be good for much today beyond reading other critics’ and bloggers’ writeups of Lost, so I can at least be of some use to you and refer you to some of the other opinions I’ve been reading this morning:
Myles McNutt, Cultural Learnings: “Beautiful and heartwrenching, ‘The End’ captures more than any other series finale …
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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, gather some of your closest friends together in a special place, and watch the last episode ever of Lost.
The great puzzle of the last season of Lost has been: how can both the flash-sideways universe and the Island universe mean anything? If Sideways is the universe in which Oceanic 815 …
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It is one of those cruel tricks of the calendar that the most unusual and very possibly best episode of Breaking Bad so far—and this following on a string of possibly-best-episodes—should come on the night of Lost’s finale. …
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Any last predictions, hopes, fears, questions? Post ’em here.
As a reminder, I’ll be putting up something on the finale here after it airs, at least for purposes of kicking off discussion. How much I write will depend in part on a mathematical equation involving how much I have to say versus how likely I am to say something really …
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Time’s tight, so I’m going to throw out some spoilery thoughts on the universe-straddling season finale of Fringe, entirely in hail-of-bullets form. Stand back; I’m using the 77 model.
* A random thought first: I can’t help but think that, however the parallel-worlds storyline of Lost is resolved in its finale, it will eventually beg …
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This is the second of two parts of a batch of actor interviews I conducted on Lost’s set in Oahu (and in the case of Matthew Fox, over the phone) in April for my feature in TIME. Part one, with Terry O’Quinn, Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway, posted yesterday.
As I said then, there’s nothing horribly spoilery in them (at this point …
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So many finales, so little time! It would be nice if the networks would have a little consideration for me and stagger their seasons, so that shows start ending in April and continue through June, just before I go on vacation.
Today, after a whopper of a night of finales, I have to spend much of the day feeling the cells in my body …
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This is it. The big one. T minus two days. A couple notes on what I’ll be doing to mark the finale of Lost this weekend.
First, for those of you in the New York City area, I’ll be at the Paley Center Saturday afternoon, talking about Lost on a panel that also includes Alan Sepinwall of HitFix, Dan Manu of Television Without Pity, Chris …
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Different people have criticized this season of The Office for different reasons. (At least different critics and blog commenters have; it’s worth noting that for all that it remains easily NBC’s most popular Thursday comedy.) For me, the problem has been the lack of stakes. The Office has been best when it’s about real problems that …
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Ending Modern Family‘s first season with a family portrait made sense on more than one level. From a simple storytelling perspective, it’s a natural, plausible way to get the entire extended family together for a season-sapping scene after following their separate subplots through the episode. …
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If your job is covering TV and not, say, Somali warlords, you do not expect ever to conduct an interview with someone who is holding a deadly weapon the entire time. But then I talked to Terry O’Quinn, in his trailer on location with Lost, last month. O’Quinn was sent, as a souvenir, an inscribed hunting knife from the SOG company, in …
