Juliet Lapidos at Slate argues that the current an...

Juliet Lapidos at Slate argues that the current and 4th season of ABC’s Lost is the best one yet, in no small part because of the narrative jumps to the future. While I think there were some individual episodes in past seasons that surpass those of the 4th, I agree that the current season has been the most narratively tense and consistently good.

Submitted by crazymonk on Wed, 05/28/2008 - 5:00am.

Comments (11)

buh -- bwah -- huh?

that can't possibly be her real name! is it?

i agree that it's been the most consistent since season 1. though i never thought there was the huge dip that many others did.

jbg. | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 1:19pm

Four toed statue.

RumorsDaily | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 2:52pm

I am surprised that Slate would run a persuasive argument about something that is solely a matter of taste. Pardon me while I work on my 2,000-word feature about why strawberries are the best fruit ever.

Lorelei | Wed, 05/28/2008 - 8:55pm

Raspberries!

RumorsDaily | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 7:28am

"I am surprised that Slate would run a persuasive argument about something that is solely a matter of taste."

Isn't that pretty much what all tv/film/book/music criticism involves?

crazymonk | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 7:33am

Observations like "the acting was good but the script was lacking" are in a whole different ballpark from "X is the best Y EVAR."

Lorelei | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 7:57am

Well, it's not like the entire article was written in fan speak. In fact, the reason I posted it was because she provides a cogent argument involving the improved craft of the writing.

crazymonk | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 8:04am

Plus, you posted it because she was right. This season has been amazing. Possibly better than the first, though I was more fanatic about it back then. And this was a very well written article about comparing one season to the next, using well reasoned arguments. I think that every major publication has articles like this. Or don't you read "best movie of the year" lists. Or when reading No COuntry For Old Men reviews, did you not notice that all critics not only reviewed that film, but placed it in the context of the Coen's other films, many saying that Country was their best film EVAR.

Los Angeles | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 8:23am

You do raise an interesting point, though, about where personal taste ends and objective "goodness" begins. Maybe it's a continuum of personal taste (with stuff everyone agrees on at one end) and we're just fooling ourselves with arts criticism.

Lorelei | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 11:17am

HER NAME IS JULIET LAPIDOS!

AND SHE'S WRITING ABOUT LOST!!

THAT CANNOT BE HER REAL NAME!!

no one else is bothered by this?!

jbg. | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 1:36pm

ps. while i thoroughly enjoyed no country, and thought it was deserving of its awards and one of last year's best -- am i alone in thinking it might not even crack the top 5 best coen films?!

let's see (in no particular order):

raising arizona
miller's crossing
o brother where art thou
big lebowski

okay, yeah it makes it. but that's only because i won't put fargo in there. yell at me.... NOW.

jbg. | Thu, 05/29/2008 - 1:37pm