Review: ‘Lost’ Season 6 Premiere

LOST – SEASON 6 PREMIERE

Stars: Matthew Fox, Josh Holloway, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Emerson and more | Directed by Jack Bender

(The cast of Lost in a promotional photo that has been deemed ‘The Lost Supper’)

After two straight hours of Lost, I’m still confused – along with the rest of the Lost population. With enough twists and turns to give Mr. Shyamalan a headache, the premiere rose to the occasion under immense expectations. Without giving anything away to those who have yet to see the spectacle, I’ll just say the premiere was a classic episode of Lost despite the creators’ (J.J. Abrams and Jeffrey Lieber) warnings of a fairly noticeable departure from past seasons.

From the very beginning your thrown into mystery and divergent time lines (a Lost staple at this point) that gives some insight to those early moments of Oceanic Flight 815 and it’s seemingly doomed passengers, While also showing the aftermath of the Hydrogen bomb set off by Juliet Burke (portrayed by actress Elizabeth Mitchell) during the last seconds of season 5, which to Lost fans seems to have been an eternity ago. Never slowing down, the premiere keeps you enthralled from beginning to end, half answering some questions left unanswered in Season 5 while introducing even more disturbing questions left to be answered.

Even though it leaves more questions than answers the premiere was exciting, mysterious… and utterly undecipherable to the uninitiated. Bottom line, the premiere episode promises to leave you frustratingly yet gleefully confused until the next episode one very long week from now. Until then, Namaste.

*** (4/5)