Movie Mondays!

LOST continues to thrill, amaze and please viewers! If you haven’t watched LOST yet, start with Season 1 and build your way to Season 5. If you start at the time of this writing (June ’09), you should be caught up right about the time the final Season (6) begins. Though many fans and the public at large have taken the series title quite literally to mean a group of survivors stranded on an island after a plane crash, LOST proves to be something more. Each of the lead characters are indeed lost in they are trying to find either a sense of purpose, a sense of belonging or simply their place in the world around them. What’s fascinating is how their lives crisscross each other’s and the question of if it is part of some grand design or merely chance and fate working their wiles. LOST is not firmly entrenched in a specific genre, taking elements liberally from sci-fi, horror, suspense, action, romance and drama. There is something in this series for just about everyone (one of the reasons it has proved so popular). Season 5 provided some great answers to questions fans had been pondering about since the series began and the 17 hours of Season 5 lived up and exceeded the standards set by the four seasons preceding it. Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Juliet, Hurley and Sayid are all prominent in Season 5 as well as holdovers from Season 4: Miles, Ben, Daniel and Charlotte. Ben is up to his old tricks and interesting connections between Charles Widmore, Ms. Hawking, Desmond and Penny (and one other) are also revealed. We get to see more of the ill fated Dharma Initiative and find out what happened to them. Along the way there are plenty of surprising twists and turns as even seemingly minor details can be integral to the story over time. If you've stopped watching Season 5 is a good reason to start watching LOST again and if you haven’t seen it at all you really don't know what you’ve been missing. LOST proves to be (in the words of another network) Must-See TV!

I’m repurposing content by taking my NetFlix reviews and posting them here on the blog. If I could figure out a way to do it, I’d post some kind of link for people to connect and make me their friend on the service. Unfortunately, it isn’t altogether clear how one would do that - so if you know a way, pass it along. In the meantime, I’ve got steady content for at least a year.