Televisionary: The Recap Episode

Ah, Memorial Day Weekend. That time of year which signals the end of the television season and the beginning of summer and, well, summer television.

As there have been a lot of new visitors popping up here at Televisionary lately, I thought this would be a good time to take a look back at some recent posts that may have caught your eye, sparked your imagination, or--at the very least--given you a reason to take a break (or sneak one) from work.

Without further ado, I give you the first Televisionary clip show.

Pilot Inspektor:
NBC's Kidnapped
NBC's Heroes
ABC's Brothers & Sisters
Showtime's Dexter

Hot Topics:
"May We Have an Awesome Blossom": When Does TV Product Placement Go Too Far?
"Gilmore" Guy: Who Is New Showrunner David Rosenthal?

Fall 2006 Network Upfronts/Schedule Coverage:
Musical Chairs: NBC Reshuffles Nearly Its Entire Schedule
What I'll Be Watching This Fall
Upfronts Scorecard: The CW
Upfronts Scorecard: NBC
Upfronts Scorecard: ABC
Upfronts Scorecard: FOX
Upfronts Scorecard: CBS

Lost and Found:
Messages in a Bottle: Lost Thoughts for "Live Together, Die Alone" (Season Finale)
Messages in a Bottle: Lost Thoughts for "Three Minutes"
Messages in a Bottle: Lost Thoughts for "?"
Messages in a Bottle: Lost Thoughts for "Two for the Road"
4 8 15 16 23 42...and 6 Inches?: An Island of "Lost" Toys
Before They Were "Lost": Sawyer Vamps It Up on "Angel"

From Across the Pond:
Jamie's School Lunch Project
The Thick of It
Waking the Dead

Reality Check:
Top Chef: "My Back Just Walked into Your Knife": The Winner of "Top Chef" Is a Cut Above
The Amazing Race: Brains Triumph Over Brawn on This "Race"
5 Takes: Pacfic Rim: My Take on "5 Takes: Pacific Rim"
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations: "No Reservations" About Watching Bourdain

Comments

Have a Burning Question for Team Darlton, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, or Michael Emerson?

Lost fans: you don't have to make your way to the island via Ajira Airways in order to ask a question of the creative team or the series' stars. Televisionary is taking questions from fans to put to Lost 's executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and stars Matthew Fox ("Jack Shephard"), Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen"), and Michael Emerson ("Benjamin Linus") for a series of on-camera interviews taking place this weekend. If you have a specific question for any of the above producers or actors from Lost , please leave it in the comments section below . I'll be accepting questions until midnight PT tonight and, while I can't promise I'll be able to ask any specific inquiry due to the brevity of these on-camera interviews, I am looking for some insightful and thought-provoking questions to add to the mix. So who knows: your burning question might get asked after all.

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What's Done is Done: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil on the Season Finale of "Lost"

Every story begins with thread. It's up to the storyteller to determine just how much they need to parcel out, what pattern they're making, and when to cut it short and tie it off. With last night's penultimate season finale of Lost ("The Incident, Parts One and Two"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, we began to see the pattern that Lindelof and Cuse have been designing towards the last five seasons of this serpentine series. And it was only fitting that the two-hour finale, which pushes us on the road to the final season of Lost , should begin with thread, a loom, and a tapestry. Would Jack follow through on his plan to detonate the island and therefore reset their lives aboard Oceanic Flight 815 ? Why did Locke want to kill Jacob? What caused The Incident? What was in the box and just what lies in the shadow of the statue? We got the answers to these in a two-hour season finale that didn't quite pack the same emotional wallop of previous season ...

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See You in Another Life: Thoughts on The Series Finale of Lost

"No one can tell you why you're here." I'm of two minds (and two hearts) about the two-and-a-half hour series finale of Lost ("The End"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender, which brought a finality to the story of the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 and the characters with which we've spent six years. At its heart, Lost has been about the two bookends of the human existence, birth and death, and the choices we make in between. Do we choose to live together or die alone? Can we let go of our past traumas to become better people? When we have nothing else left to give, can we make the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good? In that sense, the series finale of Lost brought to a close the stories of the crash survivors and those who joined them among the wreckage over the course of more than 100 days on the island (and their return), offering up a coda to their lives and their deaths, a sort of purgatory for found, r...

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