Wow. I wasn't sure that I would enjoy the series finale to Prison Break and I still don't think the final ten minutes beats out Six Feet Under, but the chills that ran down my spine the second that Sara bought the flowers was almost the same one I had throughout the Six Feet Under final sequence. This show made a living off of doing the unbelievable. This show made you sacrifice common sense and logic in order to follow it. Look at the finale as a terrific example. Kellerman is alive. What other show does that? When a character is "dead" that character is dead on any other show. Sara and Kellerman both effectivly came back to life in this show - but thats what Prison Break was about. That's what the show was about.

But for the final five minutes it was something more. For everything that we have been through over the four years of this show - in the end its a show about people. People who havent always done the right things and haven't done the right choices. The final five minutes showed how one man brought them all together. How one man saved everyone. Am I upset that Michael is dead after watching the show for four seasons and the "happy ending" for everyone wasn't acheived. I was at first, but I am so satisfied with the way that the show ended and where everyone is today. Michael Scofield was the change he wanted to see in the world. All the bad things that everyone did - he changed everyone. He mad everyone at the grave that day a better person and he lives on with our characters in that way. Amazing Show. Amazing Ending. Loved every second of the finale.

The finale of a show to me is everything. The finale and how everything ties together can make or break a shows position on my "all-time" favorites list. As it stands now...here are my rankings for shows I have watched every episode of...

1. Six Feet Under

2. Prison Break

3. Alias

4. Friends

I think that "Kings" has started with the best pilot episode since "Fringe" late in 2008. I do think that the two-hour episode was much needed in order to really draw me into the show and this is one show that I will be watching in the weeks to come. I think this pilot shows a lot of promise for the show. The show isn't going to come out and blow your mind with action every week. This is a show that is going to be good based on the quality of its characters and right now I don't think I've seen such a well put together cast since "Lost" and "Six Feet Under". I think this show has potential to be in my top five when its all said and done.

What Worries Me --> Only 6 million viewers for the opening episode in a very tough Sunday night timeslot. NBC has promted this show terribly. Outside of seeing 2-3 previews on an epsiode of Heroes, nothing. Nothing on any other station, newspaper, magazine. I think this show has a lot of promise and I would hate to see it get cancelled after only a couple of episodes. It is a big BIG budget show and it needs to perform better then it did opening night in order to really have a chance of surviving.

Main Idea (Two Main Characters, Plot Spoilers) --> I love the main idea of the show. A modern day country that is rules by a King. The King keeps notes on a blackberry looking device that he can get access too later. The King himself is a very good actor. On the surface he seems like the most powerful man in this kingdom, however, behind the scenes there is a man who is controlling all of the money in the kingdom and if the kind chooses to cross this man he is going to destory everything that the king has accomplished. We got right into this aspect of the show in this epsiode when the man (brother in law to the king) told him that he wanted to continue the war.

David is a great lead character too. I think that was the aspect I loved the most about the show. Two big stars will be able to carry this show into something really great I think. I do like David more then the king, but they are both great characters. The beginning scene kind of set up the episode well, but at the same time the two year jump seemed pretty quick and I don't think they are ever going to go back to the last two years. I think there are a lot of good stories that could have been told in those two years, but I think I will grow to accept such a huge gap right there at the beginning of the show.

Season One Top Five
1. Exodus, Part 2 - 10.00
2. All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues - 9.80
3. Deus Ex Machina - 9.80
4. Do No Harm - 9.70
5. Confidence Man - 9.70

Season Two Top Five
1. Live Together, Die Alone - 10.00
2. Man of Science, Man of Faith - 10.00
3. Orientation - 9.80
4. The 23rd Psalm - 9.80
5. Lockdown - 9.70

Season Three Top Five
1. Through The Looking Glass - 10.00
2. Flashes Before Your Eyes - 10.00
3. The Man Behind The Curtain - 9.80
4. One of Us - 9.70
5. The Man From Tallahassee - 9.60

Season Four Top Five
1. The Constant - 10.00
2. The Shape of Things to Come - 10.00
3. The Beginning of the End - 10.00
4. There's No Place Like Home, Part 2 - 10.00
5. There's No Place Like Home, Part 1 - 9.50

Season Five Top Five
1. 316- 9.80
2. LaFluer - 9.60
3. Because You Left - 9.30
4. This Place Is Death - 9.10
5. Jughead - 9.00

Welcome to Lost for the forseeable future - stuck in the Dharma days as we get to know the mystery of the Dharma Inititive, a mystery that we have always wanted to know for the past couple of seasons. I was so happy in the beginning of the episode when we saw a full version of the statue, but then I laughed when I realized we weren't really going to see the full statue in this episode - only the backside of it. I have thought for a long time that the statue was going to be Richard Alpert - because it makes sense. However, I have recently read a theory regarding Daniel Faraday which seems like it could be pretty good. Very happy to see them show the full statue and even happier (now) not knowing what it is because the rest of the episode turned out to be fantastic, pulling in right behind "316" as number one for the season for me.

I loved the Richard Alpert / Sawyer scene. Sawyer kind of takes his "Head of Security" role in this episode. I'm not sure if we will get more flashbacks to 1971 - 1974 or if that was kind of it. These are the kinds of things that the writers can decide and I'll be fine with either way. They could show some stories during the past three years or they could just go from here and use Kate and Hurley as the primary flashback devices in this time era.

Another big scene that I predicted (and enjoyed) was the Juliet Sawyer being together three years into the future. Everyone kind of saw it coming as soon as Jack and Kate hooked up off the island. It made sense that Sawyer and Juliet would do something on the island, making it interesting when Jack and Kate get back. I loved Sawyer's "I don't even remember her face" line. He seems like he could be over her, but I expect a dark future for Juliet and Sawyer. It's really hard to imagine the time difference here. Sawyer knew Kate for 110 days before she left the island, which took up 4 seasons of show and its hard to make the connection that Juliet / Sawyer have been going at each other now for over 1000 days because we have only seen it in one episode. I do hope that Sawyer stays with Juliet, but I sense some fighting on the horizon over the return of Kate.

Loved the explainations in the beginning by a very "out of it" Daniel Faraday. The island has stopped moving through time thanks to whatever Locke did down in the Donkey wheel area. Again - explained very well and acted out very well. Overall, blockbuster episode that I think really symbolizes the return of the season for me. I have a felling the second half is going to be far stronger then the first half as its more my LOST "style".

1. 316 - 9.8

2. Lafluer - 9.6 (For Now)

3. Because You Left - 9.3

4. This Place Is Death - 9.1

5. Jughead - 9.0

6. The Life and Death of Jeremey Bentham - 8.9

7. The Little Prince - 8.8

8. The Lie - 8.7

This was the episode. If you looked at all of the episode titles (like I did) before the season began your finger landed on this one and this was the one we were all waiting for. A mystery built on since the end of Season Three Finale and then continued in the Season Four Finale. The episode had high expectations and they were not met, at least not for me.

The beginning of the episode was very good. We get to meet Ceasar and Illana and we have a little bit of an extended scene before the show transfers into the flashback mode of the episode. My favorite moment of the episode was when Illana was talking to Locke and when asked what he remembered he answered "I remember dying." I do find it weird that Locke was pinpointed as "never seen on the plane." I thought that was a bit of a stretch. I'm positive that if I were on a plane I would never be able to tell you who was on it and who wasn't when I got off. I understood it in "The Other 48 Days" because that was right around the time they were trying to pin the traitor to the group and at least you had people frantically searching for a face on a plane and in order to agree they were like "Yea, I don't remember him being on the plane." It all worked out because he was on the plane - which actually kind of proves the point. This plane crashes and as soon as Locke wakes up he is questioned as to why he wasn't on the plane? I thought it was a really big stretch.

Into the flashback itself, it started off with great promise. Widemore being there when Locke woke up was a great scene. I also liked how Widemore knew what Locke was going through, even getting Locke to tell him that it had only been 4 days since he had seen him. Great stuff. Continue with Widemore, more great stuff. Widemore finding out that Locke left the island on his own free will basically gave Widemore the notion that he might be able to return to the island. I wouldn't be surprised if Ceasar and Illana end up being Widemore's people.

Matthew shows up, which was good to see. Locke then goes on a rough patch of people. The Hurley scene was not that good, the Sayid scene was very poor, and the Walt scene didn't even make any sense. He didn't even mention that he was Jeremey Bentham so I do wonder how Walt is able to make the connection when a man in Los Angeles dies under that name. Walt telling that he saw Locke in his dreams was the only real thing that saved these three scenes.

Skip ahead to Helen. First of all, love that he at least shows that he still cares about her by asking Matthew to hunt her down. A lot of people say that the gravesite was a fake, but personally I think they just needed Locke to see that there was nothing left for him in the real world. I do believe that she is dead and that we won't be seeing her character anymore. Matthew dying - not a big fan of this but with his commitment over at Fringe I guess they only had one real epsiode to use him. I loved the mystery surrounding his character in The Beginning of the End and the visit in Cabin Fever was amazing but I was not a fan of his role in this episode. I wanted him to have a much better, more important overall role in the show.

Locke and Jack. Worst scene of the entire episode. Correction, worst written scene of the entire episode. Terry and Fox did a great job acting in the scene, but this scene was so poorly written. Jack stated in s4 "He told me that a lot of bad things happened. He said it was my fault, for leaving."

Where? Where was any of this mentioned? This killed the episode for me and I was taken aback. Go back to your old scripts, look at them, and say what you were supposed to say. In fact, Jack said that Locke told him that Ben was off the island. He didn't even say that. Poor execution for the most hyped episode this season is going to have. I have a very strong feeling that this episode is going to fall on rewatch even more then it has all ready fallen for me.

Dubaku's attempt to flee the country is cut short when his decision to take his girlfriend along proves to be his undoing, and leads to a breakthrough for Jack and Renee. The moles within the FBI are uncovered when Chloe's decryption skills are put to the test by Sean who attempts a last-ditch effort to save himself. I liked the episode a lot. I see some people are not big fans of the scene in which Jack takes the car into the park and chases down Dabaku, therefore killing the woman that they were trying to protect. I did wonder why Jack would make such a quick move into the park when O'Brian was obviously three steps ahead of Dabaku anyway when it came to tracking them down. I think they just wanted the girl to die so that there could be a contrast between Renee and Jack Bauer. Jack and Renee are alike in so many ways, but at the same time Renee cannot just put something off as a sacrifice for the mission like Jack is able to do. I was hoping for a little Renee / Jack lip-lock when she was smacking him around, but we still have another 14 episodes to wait for that moment. The FBI portion of the episode was good for the second episode in a row. Sean covers up his tracks by using the woman he was having an affair with as bait. Right when it looks like he is about to get away he is captured and put into FBI custody. It also looks like there is going to be a full sweep in the next hour of a lot of government people that were working for Dabaku. It looks like Ryan works for the man at the beginning of the season who was trying to put Bauer away and is going to be a big part of the second half of this season. Tony returns - finally. Even though the past couple of episodes have been really good, Tony just randomly going away somewhere was kind of not cool. He returns at the end of this episode for a sunset scene where he asks Jack to join him one more time to take down another attack that is coming after Washington. I really liked this scene a lot and I think it plays off of what Jack lives for - saving America. Overall, fantastic episode from the team at 24 and I am very impressed with this season so far and think it is one of the best yet.

Pre-Review --> I do think that from 5x01 - 5x05 was one of the worst 5 episodes in the history of the show. I think you could also easily make a case for Whatever the case May Be, Hearts and Minds, and Special being along that same level of "what the heck is this crap?" I know that part of the blog everyone is going to disagree with, but I can't say how happy I was that "316" delivered in a way that the rest of the season has failed too. Also, just to throw it out there, yesterday was Day 49 on the new year, meaning there were 316 days left in the year. I found that to be...odd.

Review --> 9.8 / 10 (10/10 tv.com)

I have come to this site week in and week out for the last five weeks writing reviews that I knew were going to get smashed. "This Place Is Death" got an amazing 4 Thumbs Up and 40 Thumbs Down. "The Little Price" got 3 Thumbs Up and 27 Thumbs Down. This week - I don't think I'll have any problems with the Thumbs Down.

I loved this episode from start to finish. This was the episode I was waiting for. I have been critical of the first couple of episodes of this season but this episode had everything in it that I love about Lost. They have established that they are going to go back to a flashback formula - which is amazing to me! Hurley comes out of nowhere and wants to go back to the island. Kate somehow shows up without Aaron and then wants to go to the island. Ben gets the crap kicked out of him, but still gets to the island. Sayid is arrested and is on the plane back to the island. I count at least four flashbacks in that group. Not to mention that the plane crash is sure to have some survivors that we will be introduced to. Maybe? The plane went back in time so it will be interesting to see what happens to the rest of the survivors that weren't on the island before. It seems they were dropping us some hints with the guy that Jack bumped into and who Hurley told to put his seatbelt on. I think he might be apart of the show now.

The establishing of mysteries really made this episode standout and the beginning of the episode was also really well done. Hawking explains everything to Sun, Jack, Ben, and Desmond. These scenes were really long, descriptive, and we got some answers. I loved the "That's why they call it a leap of faith" line delivered by Hawking. The only "whatever" part of the episode was the four minute long scene between Jack and his Grandfather. Some people have said that they thought it was cool to meet more of Jack's family, I never really thought I would meet any of them so I would have prefered Jack going back to his apartmennt, finding the shoes and then discovering Kate. Thus giving us a couple of extra minutes. But I mean if one scene is all I'm complaining about then I'm a very happy person. Great episode, loved every minute of it.

Trust me when I say that I hate getting on here to give a negative review of Lost, but I find that I was disliked (come out with a negative opinion of) every epsiode since "Because You Left". I have liked every epsiode of this season more upon rewatch, but not this episode.

The episode didn't flow at all, much like the show hasn't been able to get into a nice flow since the end of the last season. Losing the Flashes really hurts the transition from Oceanic Six to Island Storyline. They do the best that they can, but it's just not working for them. Desmond and Ben, without a doubt the two best characters, have gotten little screen time this season and when Desmond had his I just didn't udnerstand the point of it at all anyway. Ben has been a bright light in a season full of dull moments, scoring some of the better scenes of the epsiodes.

Josh Holloways portrayal of Sawyer is poor this season and he is getting too much camera time. His acting feels like that - acting. He doesn't feel like a natural in the role. The instance in the last episode when he was thanking the sky followed by the "I take that back!" was horrible. This episode was equally as bad when it came down to him needing to understand he time travel mechanic of the show.

We get Danielles backstory which we have been waiting for since the ninth episode of season one and it came with little to no surprise. The black smoke monsetr was the cause of everything. All of the details of her story were there. Montand lost his arm, she shot Robert after he didn't realize that the gun didn't have any ammo in it. The story was all right there, but in the end there were no surprises or any reason to really tell the story.

The other big question I have about the season is our characters are interferring with the past and I want to know why Danielle doesn't remember Jin in the future. I know she goes insane but she is still able to remember Roberts story and Montand losing his arm. Something tells me she would have remembered the random Korean guy who they found floating in the ocean and they ran off never to be seen again.

Locke has been another saving grace for the season and the scene with Locke and Christain was easily the greatest scene of the episode and one of the best of the season. Lockes conversations with Richard were the saving parts of some of the early episodes and he didn't fail to deliver in this episode either.

This show doesn't feel like Lost. The transferring into different time lines is not working. They always were on the island moving through time in a linear fashion and I loved the show for that. For as complex as it was - it stuck to a basic storyline and they devoloped the mysteries very well. The show would have been better off with flashbacks explaining the past (Richard, Danielle) while keeping our guys on the island for another season and then doign season four in season five. This season is without a doubt becoming the "break" in the "make or break" of Lost.

I don't even care to rate it.

Kate discovers that someone knows the secret of Aaron's true parental lineage. Meanwhile, the dramatic shifts through time are placing the lives of the remaining island survivors in extreme peril.

First things first - My ratings for season five have climbed with each rewatch. The first three episodes got a 9.10, 8.70, and an 8.80 after I watched them the first time. After watching them for a second time they now stand at 9.3, 9.0, and a 9.2. Season Four was my favorite season of Lost and I think the main problem I am having with season five is that the show is ending to quick for me and the endgame is too close. This show spent 3 years (63ish episodes) with flashbacks being the main part of the show. Flash-Forwards had season four and I just think I wanted one more season with flash-forwards but the writers simply don't have the time to wait around for that to happen. I'm going to give this episode a 9.10, putting it ahead of only "The Lie" - but it was still a solid episode.

This episode did a little something different - it started out really amazing and then kind of dulled torwards the end of the episode. The other three episodes have been the opposite, usually picking up steam as they went along. I usually break my reviews down into the two stories, so let's keep with the normal routine...

The island part of the storyline was good, but like I said it started out really well and then tagged off as it went along. I liked the transfer in time to the season one memorable scenes. I think this is a big hint to come from the writers. They are going to be bringing out island folks in contact with their old selves / past island people a lot. It's a good chance to bring back some people to. So referencing the light from the hatch and watching Claire give birth again, knowing Sawyer was standing there and watching the entire time was kind of cool. A lot of character building moments in the early going to, which I liked. Locke and Sawyer got a couple of nice scenes together and Dan and Miles shared a scene together as well. The more the episode went on though, the more this storyline seemed to drag. They seemed to skip ahead to the future, which was kind of cool and I think they went to a time when the Oceanic Six arrive back onto the island. The raft is gone, but they have a new form of transportation. They begin to get shot at by a boat full of people, which I think could be the Oceanic Six but at the same time I don't think it would fit their motive. The end of the episode transfers our guys again to the past, where Jin is alive and gets to meet a young version of Danielle. Hated this part of the epsiode. Jin should have died on the boat. He should not be alive and I'm not a fan of this. It's kind of one of those things that they are going to want us to just "let them have" but - just not my cup of tea. Sun watched him on the boat and she watched the boat blow up - enough said.

The Oceanic Six storyline was pretty good. I really like the relationship between Kate and Aaron and I thought the first scene was really well done. Jack calls Kate to meet her again, to which she realizes he has gotten rid of the beard. I liked the first scene in the episode with Kate / Jack on the boat basically staging the lie. I like how Aaron was Kate's ideas and not Jacks. I thought the first scene connecting with the story was done the best in this episode. The worst part of this storyline was when Jack went inside to talk to Claires mom. That was a storyline that went on for anywere between 4-6 minutes and it turned out to be nothing. I called Ben being the one sending the guy after Aaron / Kate to scare her, but I can't say it was predictable because I don't think that my theory got much support on the internet anyway. That was the big reveal in this episode anyways and I kind of sawit coming. The scenes with Sayid in the hospital were okay, but nothing amazing there either.

Overall - I think it was a good episode and I think I have been too harsh with my reviews on Lost for Season Five. I still think that this season is simply "good" and not "great" or "amazing", but I mean this show has the highest expectations to try and get me each week and I just haven't seen an episode worthy of a "I Cannot Wait Until Next Week" kind of reaction yet, but was something that I had for just about every single episode in season four.

Season Five

1. Because You Left --> 9.30

2. Jughead --> 9.20

3. The Little Prince --> 9.10

4. The Lie --> 9.00

Veronica begins college with Logan, Wallace and Mac, but is immediately drawn back into old detective habits when Piz, Wallace's new roommate, gets all his stuff stolen. Meanwhile, Keith helps reunite Kendall with an old love, recently released from prison.

If there is one show this show always did well, it's first episodes that start long storyarchs being nothing short of perfect television. Everything just seems like it flows well. Veronica's first couple of minutes solving the crime case in six minutes was actually really good. I like that opening a lot and I thought it was funny that she really does always seem to rub people the wrong way the first time that she mets them. The most interesting dynamic in this episode was the relationship between Veronica and Logan. They are back together again in college and things seem to be moving very well all things considering. Veronica's Dad is none to happy that they are off together, but he at least seems to ebe content with it. We are introduced to a new character named Piz. I'm glad that they didn't try and bombard us with a new cast right off the bat, though I must say I hate the new theme song with a passion. Piz seems like he is going to turn into a main character and the small confrontation between Logan and Piz seems like it could turn into something a little more drama-related sometime in the future. Keith's storyline was okay, but it was the worst of the episode. The ending to the story was good, it was getting there that kind of made the flow of the episode go away for me. All ready a different feel with Veronica being away at college insted of high school. I have a feeling Keith may have his own season long story this year while Veronica is off solving a campus related rape case.

Overall - amazing episode to open the season and I am very excited to see where the show goes from here.

Writing blogs that show the worst sides of Lost is something that I am not used to doing, although the feeling is becoming an all too familar one as I continue to watch Season Five of my "favorite television" series of all time. Perhaps the expecation level is too high because many others are still captivated by everything that the Lost team is writing. I, for one, am sitting on edge week in and week out wondering where my favorite show has gone. Season Four was an all-time high for me, finishing at 9.52 for the entire season. I have never rated any season of television that high, or even within the same ball park for that matter. Season Five has produced three episodes below a 9.5 for me, something I never would have thought of given where the storyline could have gone. But now - onto the actual episode itself, Jughead, which ranks below both "Because You Left" and "The Lie".

Let's break this episode down into its two main parts: Desmond and Island. Desmond usually has the backbone in this show to carry an episode by himself and bring it into my top 25. My favorite episodes of all time usually have something to do with Desmond (The Constant, Flashes Before Your Eyes, Live Together - Die Alone). In this episode he was given a storyline with some promise, but ended up doing nothing but running around on a wild goose chase for the entire episode. Let's begin with the beginning of the episode - solid start. Turns out Desmond and Penny settled down after the Oceanic Six left them and had a baby. Love that storyline because it gives the Penny / Desmond relationship that much more meaning that it all ready had. Naming the baby Charlie? Another great addition from the Lost writing team. From there Desmond goes on his mission to try and find Faraday's mother. Desmond runs to Oxford only to find out that Faraday isn't in the record books at Oxford, nor is his mother. He goes to Faraday's old lab to look around for a few minutes only to get bumped into by a man who gives him an address to go and visit. He goes to the address to find a woman in really bad shape, someone that we don't know. It seems that Daniel was performing some kind of an experiment on her and when it went bad Faraday left town, leaving Charles Widemore to finance the recovery of this woman. The connection that was made was pretty strong with Faraday and Widemore - but we all ready kind of knew that one exsisted because Faraday was on the boat. Seems like Mr. Widemore is looking into the possibility of time travel as well. Follow that all up with a confrontation between Widemore and Hume, which left a lot more to be desired. Widemore writes an adress for a woman in L.A. so he can get in touch with our guys and get back to the island more then likely. Overall - Other then the first and last scenes, Desmond's portion of the episode just lacked depth.

The island portion of the episode moved very slowly and you can start to see the effect the Oceanic Six leaving is having on the show. Sawyer and Juliet don't amount to much in this episode, just kind of standing around Locke until he breaks off to do his own little thing. There was a lot of time spent with our guys getting caputred by the Others. I thought finding out that they were Others was cool, but it took too long into the episode to find this out and get them to Richard. Daniel usually has really powerful storylines, but the bomb in this episode was just kind of random. I don't really even care how it got there, I just wanted the storyline to end. The island storyline wasn't all horrible though - we got a lot of answers right there at the end. Locke mets young Widemore on the island and kind of gives him a little smile, acknowledging that it was nice to met him. The scene with Richard in "Cabin Fever" makes a lot more sense now and you can see why Richard was at least there now. Locke still doens't know how to get off the island, but the island flashed again right there at the end of the episode giving our characters a new timeline to work with.

Overall - the entire episode was veyr weirdly paced and I wasn't really feeling the way that I have felt in any of the past seasons. In terms of the opening three epsiodes I think it is safe to say, for me, that this is without a doubt the worst three episode opening that the show has had. The storylines are lacking any real merit at this stage of the game.

1. Because You Left - 9.30

2. The Lie (After A Rewatch) - Up to a 9.10

3. Jughead - 8.80

Season Five Average - 9.07

1. Through The Looking Glass - 10.00
2. The Constant - 10.00
3. The Shape of Things to Come - 10.00
4. Live Together, Die Alone - 10.00
5. The Beginning of the End - 10.00
6. Man of Science, Man of Faith - 10.00
7. The Man From Tallahassee - 10.00
8. There's No Place Like Home, Part 2 - 10.00
9. Exodus, Part 2 - 10.00
10. Flashes Before Your Eyes - 10.00
11. Catch-22 - 10.00
12. The Man Behind The Curtain - 9.80
13. The 23rd Pslam - 9.80
14. All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues - 9.80
15. Orientation - 9.80
16. Dues Ex Machina - 9.80
17. Confidence Man - 9.70
18. Do No Harm - 9.70
19. Lockdown - 9.70
20. ? - 9.60
21. Exodus, Part 1 - 9.50
22. Greatest Hits - 9.50
23. Something Nice Back Home - 9.50
24. Outlaws - 9.50
25. Enter 77 - 9.50

Season One - 7 Episodes

Season Two - 6 Episodes

Season Three - 7 Episodes

Season Four - 5 Episodes

Season Five - 0 Episodes

Season One
1. Pilot, Part 1 - 9.50
2. Pilot, Part 2 - 9.30
3. Tabula Rasa - 9.10
4. Walkabout - 9.50
5. White Rabbit - 9.00
6. House of the Rising Sun - 9.30
7. The Moth - 9.20
8. Confidence Man - 9.70
9. Solitary - 9.40
10. Raised By Another - 9.10
11. All The Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues - 09.80
12. Whatever The Case May Be - 8.20
13. Hearts and Minds - 8.50
14. Special - 8.00
15. Homecoming - 8.80
16. Outlaws - 9.50
17. In Translation - 9.40
18. Numbers - 9.40
19. Dues Ex Machina - 9.80
20. Do No Harm - 9.70
21. The Greater Good - 8.70
22. Born To Run - 8.20
23. Exodus, Part 1 - 9.50
24. Exodus, Part 2 - 10.00

Season Two
25. Man of Science, Man of Faith - 10.00
26. Adrift - 8.90
27. Orientation - 9.80
28. Everybody Hates Hugo - 9.20
29. And Found - 8.50
30. Abandoned - 8.80
31. The Other 48 Days - 9.30
32. Collision - 9.20
33. What Kate Did - 9.30
34. The 23rd Psalm - 9.80
35. The Hunting Party - 9.40
36. Fire + Water - 7.80
37. The Long Con - 9.40
38. One of Them - 9.50
39. Maternity Leave - 9.30
40. The Whole Truth - 9.20
41. Lockdown - 9.70
42. Dave - 9.30
43. S.O.S. - 8.50
44. Two For The Road - 9.20
45. ? - 9.60
46. Three Minutes - 9.50
47. Live Together, Die Alone - 10.00

Season Three
48. A Tale of Two Cities - 9.20
49. The Glass Balerina - 9.40
50. Further Instructions - 8.00
51. Every Man For Himself - 9.00
52. The Cost of Living - 9.20
53. I Do - 9.40
54. Not In Portland - 9.50
55. Flashes Before Your Eyes - 10.00
56. Stranger in a Strange Land - 9.00
57. Tricia Tanaka is Dead - 8.80
58. Enter 77 - 9.50
59. Par Avion - 8.70
60. The Man from Tallahassee - 10.00
61. Expose - 7.50
62. Left Behind - 8.70
63. One of Us - 9.10
64. Catch-22 - 10.00
65. D.O.C. - 8.50
66. The Brig - 9.40
67. The Man Behind The Curtain - 9.80
68. Greatest Hits - 9.50
69. Through The Looking Glass - 10.0

Season Four
70. The Beginning of the End - 10.00
71. Confirmed Dead - 9.30
72. The Economist - 9.40
73. Eggtown - 9.20
74. The Constant - 10.00
75. The Other Woman - 9.10
76. Ji Yeon - 8.80
77. Meet Kevin Johnson - 9.50
78. The Shape of Things to Come - 10.00
79. Something Nice Back Home - 9.50
80. Cabin Fever - 9.50
81. There's No Place Like Home, Part 1 - 9.50
82. There's No Place Like Home, Part 2 - 10.00

Season Five
83. Because You Left - 9.30
84. The Lie - 8.90
85. Jughead -

Season One - 9.19 (220.6 Points)
Season Two - 9.27 (213.2 Points)
Season Three - 9.19 (202.2 Points)
Season Four - 9.52 (123.8 Points)
Season Five - 9.10 (18.2 Through 2 Episodes)

No introduction. Let's just get right to the massive reviews.

LOST - BECAUSE YOU LEFT SCORES A 9.25 / 10.00

The opening of the fifth season of Lost starts off just like season four did - dancing on the edge of a razor, ready to lose everything in a moment's notice. After "The Beginning of the End" and "Confirmed Dead" last year - the writers of Lost got off the razor and earned my trust for another year. After watching "Because You Left" and "The Lie" - the writers of this show are still dancing atop the razor as I worry that may favorite show is about to take us on a journey that will ruin the show forever. Let's begin the review with "Because You Left"

The opening scene of every season has been amazing - all except this one. The Pilot had the plane crash and it worked with sucking us into the rest of season one. Man of Science, Man of Faith had Desmond in the hatch, which helped us into season two. A Tale of Two Cities and The Beginning of the End also both captivated me into the season long arch with the opening scene. The very first scene of season five is poorly executed and finds itself finishing fifth in terms of all of the seasons put together. The record player is a good addition considering Daniel's explaination later in the episode, but the song choice is very poor and thye tried too much to make it look like seasons two and three. The big shock that the person running everything is Dr. Candle didn't do it for me either. The two-three minute follow-up with Dr. Candle being called down to the Orchid station is what I had a big problem with. Bad writing down here - with the one Dharma worker asking if they were going to kill Hitler Faraday shows up at the end for the 'real' shock, but the rest of the episode doesn't expand on that principal that Faraday is in the Orchid over 30 years ago. I get it - At some point in time Faraday will get there. But that's not what I want the opening scene to do. In season two Jack went into the hatch 20 minutes later. In season three Kate sat down with Ben for breakfast 20 minutes later. In season four we got more flashes into the future after the first one. The opening scene was without a doubt the worst of the five seasons. It seems they wanted to surprise us just to - surprise us.

We can then break the rest of the episode down into three very unique parts - Locke / Sawyer+Juliet / Oceanic Six based. Let's begin with Locke, who had the best scene of the episode I thought. Locke sees the plane crash, which I thought was a very cool addition to the time travel. Perhaps this explains why the Black Rock is so far inland. The island moves and causes these things to crash into them. I was hoping to see "Goldie" climb out of the plane and shoot Locke, but instead we get Ethan. The Ethan scene was terrible and is not the scene I was talking about earlier. The Ethan scene felt really forced and Quinn's acting felt off in that scene as well. Also - the "I'm about to kill you, but you teleport in time" thing is only going to work a couple of times before it gets old. The best scene of the episode came after Locke was shot and Richard meets him in the jungle. Richard gives Locke a compass, one of the items in "Cabin Fever" that Richard said all ready belonged to him. I thought that was interesting. This was the best scene of the episode, as Richard also seems to know what it going on with Locke and the rest of the group. To the Oceanic Six it looks like the island moved - but Richard seems to think that the people are moving. I'm thinking it has to be a combination of both in order for everything to work out.

Juliet, Sawyer, and Faraday seem to be the leaders of the other portion for the duration of this episode. Sawyer's line of "It's the ghost of Christmas future" was - awful writing. Just. Terrible. I liked the way Daniel explained everything to the audiance and I liked his scene with Desmond at the very end when he tells Desmond that everyone is in trouble that they left behind. Desmond shows up at the very end of the episode and that's it for him and Penny in "Because You Left". The main purpose of this group was to have everything explained to us and I thought that was good.

The Oceanic Six didn't really do much of anything. With the island traveling in time it seems like all of the discussion will focus on what's going on with the island. Jack and Ben scenes at the beignning were very good. Ben seems to have some form of a "team" that we will be learning about. Enjoying Kate + Aaron's relationship on-screen, though it looks like I'm one of a few in that section of the show. Sun runs into Widemore again, to which he is upset that she ran into him in public instead of doing it in private. There wasn't a whole lot really going on - Sun seems like a very dangerous member of the Oceanic Six right now. I don't really know her agenda. Sayid's fight scene was well done, though Hurley looking over the balcony was yet another face-palm moment.

Overall - this opening episode had a lot of things to talk about, but it wasn't as amazing as past openers. I do like the flashless format, I think we have learned enough about our characters to go the rest of the way without getting too much more flashes.

LOST - THE LIE SCORES A 8.90 / 10.00

This review will likely be shorter then my last review. This episode was a bit of a change from "Because You Left" - settling into a much more chill tone then the opener, which we all knew to expect considering they were written to be two seperate episodes.

The Oceanic Six - Hurley - takes up the main portion of the episode which ultimate is the reason that the episode comes up short in a lot of ways. I like Jorge Garcia as an actor and I think he plays Hurley very well - but the writing in this episode is just not good for him. Let's begin with the opening scene of the episode. It's a flashback to the days when the Oceanic Six were on the boat, coming up with the lie. Hurley tells Sayid that one day he is going to need his help and that he won't give it - ****c flashback / flashforward technique. Say something a long time ago and then it makes sense sometime in the future. This one didn't make sense because the entire episode is about Hurley telling Sayid. Maybe that was the point - but I just didn't see the purpose for Hurley to call out just Sayid out of everyone in the group, it made it seem too forced and the writers were trying to make too much of a conneection between something that happened three years ago and something that is going on right now. The Sayid / Ben twist in "The Economist" was done perfectly - Sayid says he will never work for Ben, but we find out he does, and then some episodes later there is a good reason why. In this - Hurley singles out Sayid and blames him and it fails to connect to the rest of the episode. Very poorly done.

Continuing with Hurley - the conversation with Anna-Lucia comes up short as well. Didn't like it. The entire scene could have been okay, but the thing is the writers tried to make the scene "funny" and failed in doing so. Anna-Lucia tries to joke on Hurley for his clothes and the entire thing kind of comes off like Miles' "3.2 million dollar" request back in "Eggtown". The tacked on "Libby says Hi" line at the end of the conversation just made me happy that the scene was finnaly over. In summary --> The first 5 minutes of each episode was done very poorly, which is likely why I was put into this midset for both episodes because I did the best I could to seperate them and judge them as their own episodes.

Continuing with Hurley - the scenes with his Dad were all pretty poor. I don't like Martin as an actor and I didn't think he did a very good job in this episode. Sitting down to watch Expose was a nice inside joke, but the minute it took him to make a sandwhich was just like - okay. Hurley's Mom shows up a little bit later. I did like the scene where Hurley gives the summary of lost in about 30 seconds, I should try that out sometime. She doesn't understand it, but I still thought the scene came out really well and it was one of the highlight scenes of the episode.

Continuing with Hurley - the scene with Ben was the most humerous scene of the episode. Loved the hot pocket through. The look Emerson provided was beyond amazing. Shocked the writers had Hurley run into the cops outside of his house, I would have thought they would have gone a different route with that. Hurley has always been one for doing what people tell him - so standing up to Ben out of everyone seemed a little - heroic and out of character? Like I said - Hurley took up a big portion of the episode.

I didn't like Frogurt's apperance in the epsiode. I like his character but the "We can't even get fire" line followed by a flaming arrow was a roll of the eyes moment. Juliet and Sawyer seperate from the group and run into some island inhabitants, likely thise who started the arrow war with the rest of our survivors. There wasn't a whole lot to talk about island wise in this episode, it was more about the Oceanic Six and Hurley.

Oceanic Six breakdown - Jack gets tossed Sayid, but nothing really gets accomplished. Sun invites Kate for a visit - I thought it was cool that we got to see that. I liked the Kate / Aaron elevator scene, another scene that seems to be coming under some scruntiny. Ben had a good part to this episode and had the best scene of the episode. The ending scene with Hawking and the "70 hours" was really well done and I liked that one a lot.

Overall - I think the two-hour opening failed on several levels. I think it was the worst 1-2 combination that the show has ever had to start off a season and ever since "Through The Looking Glass" the show has been on a razor to deliver in the final 48. This is not final 48 quality and I hope to see that change in the next episode. Somehow.

"Above Average" --> 9.0

A little bit of a slowdown episode when you look at this and try and compare it to the four-hour powerhouse that we opened up the season with. Overall it was a solid episode though, they needed to transfer Jack and Tony to a different location and they did it as best they could.

Let's break this episode down into a couple of parts. Jack and Tony obviously had the best part of this episode. All of the Jack and Tony scenes were of "10" quality. They begin the episode right where they left off and removed Matumbo and his wife from the room. Jack quickly puts together a home-made smoke maker and they get them out of the room that way. Renee joining Jack and Tony was something I didn't think was going to happen the first time around. I was stunned to see Jack shoot her, but I knew he would do it in a way that she wouldn't be killed. Tony realizes that Jack didn't kill her and kind of shoots Jack a little glance. We got the silent clock at the end of the episode, which hopefully doesn't represent the end of Renee. It would seem like a very poorly executed five episode arch for her if she were to no longer be on the show.

The FBI portion of this episode was an 8.5. I'm still trying to get the names down. Janis gets help from her boss to avoid being questions about the events of the last episode. The boss is concerned about Renee still being missing, which leads him to start losing it a little bit. Seems there is also a little office romance brewing between the guy technician and a woman in the office. He got his wife out of the sky, which shows that he still cares but - maybe that storyline will be built on in the future. My money would be on the girl being the informant for the bad guys.

The White House / Mr. Taylor storyline was another 8.5. There was nothing here to really get excited about. Alison continues to say the same things she has been saying for a couple of episodes - that she does not want to give into the demands and wants to go through with the attack. Mr. Taylor is betrayed by his driver and is on the ropes. These scenes were minimal, the way they should continue to be if this is the quality we are going to get. Some Bill / Chloe scenes would have filled in a lot better.

For anyone who didn't get a chance to watch the show when it was live, you should try and pick up the DVD's whenever you see them for about $19.99. This show is headed by a wonderful case of (to me) unknown actors. Kristin Bell was someone who I had seen once or twice, but never knew anything that she was really in. Season One finished up a little stronger then the second for me, but Season Two was still really well done. Here is how the season two finished up for me...

Normal Is The Watchword - 10

Driver Ed - 9.8

Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang - 8.7

Green Eyed Monster - 9

Blast From The Past - 8.9

Rat Saw God - 9.5

Nobody Put Baby In A Corner - 9.5

Ahoy, Mateys! - 9

My Mother, The Fiend - 8

One Angry Veronica - 8.5

Donut Run - 9

Rashard and Wallace Go to White Castle - 9

Ain't No Magic Mountain High Enough - 9.5

Versatile Toppings - 8.5

The Quick and the Wed - 9

The Rapes of Graff - 9.5

Plan B - 8.5

I Am God - 8.5

Nevermind the Buttocks - 9

Look Who's Stalking - 9.5

Happy Go Lucky - 10

Not Pictured - 10

SEASON TWO --> 9.13

SEASON ONE --> 9.25

I'm not so sure if season two is really better. Anything I would have given a 9.8, 9.7, or a 9.6 too became a 9.5. Anything that would have been a 9.3ish or lower just got dropped to a 9 because of the new tv.com rating system. I would say both seasons are just as good, neither one stands out as the dominate favorite. I know that the last 7-8 of season one were all amazing and I think season 1 had more episodes in the 8's but...either way. Amazing.

*Spoilers*

Favorite Season Two Storyline - Logan and Veronica

Least Favorite Season Two Storyline - Fitzpatricks (Everything about them)

Favorite Season Two Episode - Not Pictured

Least Favorite Season Two Episode - My Mother, The Fiend

Lily Kane Murder Versus Bus Crash Storyline --> Bus Crash

Lily Kane Murder Versus Bus Crash Conclusion --> Lily Kane Murder

Best Actor, Season Two - Logan

Best Actress, Season Two - Veronica

Worst Actor, Season Two - Weevil

Worst Actress, Season Two - Woody's Daughter

Biggest Turnaround - Jackie

Episode 1 Review: 800 - 900 AM (9.5 / 10.0)

A couple of things that I liked and a couple of things that I didn't like to bring in the new season of 24. The first episode starts right where we would expect it to - with Jack Bauer in a senate meeting getting drilled with question after question about his actions while he worked as a member of CTU for the past couple of seasons. I like how ten minutes into the new season Jack is pulled out of the meeting and is introduced to the threat right away. There was no long delays in trying to set this up - this was pretty straightforward right from the get go that this season was going to get started fast without playing around. I did like all of Jack's scenes, even the slow ones at the FBI building where he was forced to stay for about twenty minutes before he could make the connection that got him back out into the field. The lead ends with the man beging shot before any information can be obtained and also raises Jack's awareness that there may be a mole inside of the FBI. This is where hour one stops for Jack. Overall for this portion - A.

The second portion of episode one involved introducing Cherry Jones as the female president, something that doesn't shock me with David Palmer's amazing run on this show as the first African-American president. I liked half of the white house plot. Cherry Jones trying to deal with the international problem was done very well, but the part I didn't like was the off the book operation that her husband was running in regards to what we saw in Redemption. It seems like a waste of a time plot, but in the end I think that's the connection that will bring Jack Bauer and the President to one another. It's just going to be very annoying to watch devolop. Overall for this portion - B-

The first episode ends with the sniper on the roof, which is about the last place you would have seen Jack about 50 minutes earlier. 24 is back and ready to go for the new season...

Episode Two Review: 900 - 1000 (9.0 / 10.0)

Picking up right where we left off, the second hour of 24's long awaited opener fell just a bit short from the expectation level that I had set in regards to the hype of the episode. Tony and company take over Air Traffic Control and take us on a wild ride for the first ten minutes of the episode, but it all ends up doing nothing. Tony allows the planes advanced notice before they smash into one another and the new terrorist receives an "F" for his first assignment. I understand the need to "test" something - but what better way to test something then by killing a lot of people. I do like the fact that the Africa storyline overlapped with Tony and company, but I was not a fan of the fake-me-out provided earlier in the episode. Bauer's storyline is stalled in this episode, as he is forced to sit in the car for the first 15 minutes while everyone else searches the building. He then switches off into a car which eventually (35 minutes later) leads him to Tony on his boat. The new FBI woman gets the first kill, which I had to laugh at. And then Jack shoots someone else but has to share the kill with the FBI woman. Jack Bauer's Kill Total For Hours 1, 2 = 0.5. I predicted 6 for the four hours total. He better crash a lot of parties tomorrow night. Bauers part in this episode was an A-.

The presidetn remained an interesting draw, but not like David Palmer or Charles Logan. I like her as a character a little better then Wayne though. Her part in this episode earns a B, but her husband brings down to storyline with his investigation into his son's attempted suicide. Once again we have whispers in the government, something I was hoping that we would avoid in this season. His role in the show so far is a "D". Overall I am very happy to see that 24 is back and I will continue my extended reviews tomorrow when the opening event comes to a close.

Most Shocking Moment So Far - Tony is captured a mere 2 hours into the season. I would have thought it would have taken a little longer then that.

Just finished watching Season Three of Criminal Minds, the first 20 episodes I watched out of everything that I got for Christmas. This is without a doubt the most consistent show that I have ever seen use a standalone format. One of the main problems people comment on the show is that there isn't enough character devolopment. This is true to an extent. In a 42 minute episode I would say 30-34 minutes are devoted to the case while the rest is devoted to getting to know our main cast. The best thing about that though is the main cast (for the most part) stays the same throughout the show. So now by the end of season three we have a healthy idea of our characters and the cases are just as good as they have ever been. Season Three did rate the lowest when I did my calculations, but the 6.0 in season three is likely what hurt it the most.

The Sheild is good - but I got season two on 12/25/2008 and it's not even out of the packaging yet. Criminal Minds took over everything I got and if this show isn't on your rader it should be. If you haven't seen an episode, keep an eye out for a $19.99 price tag for season one somewhere and pick it up. The characters are all really good - I've never been apart of a show where I loved EVERY main character. Six Feet Under made me cringe with Ruth most times. I don't like Jin/Sun Lost episodes. T-Bag scenes in season three of Prison Break and Veronica scenes in season one were bad. Every single character is someone you want to see more of. Trust me, if you have seen nothing - you should pick it up.

It's my 21st birthday today!

Finished up my school semester with A, A, A, A-, B+. Happy to be on a break right now, I needed one! Hope everyone is having a good holiday season!

After I write this blog I have to go right back to work trying to finish this fall year up strong, so this will likely be my last blog for about two weeks. My final blog is going to be about a new show this year called "True Blood". It's an HBO series written by Alan Ball, who wrote the now classic "Six Feet Under".

I have mixed feelings about the first season, which I watched most of during Thanksgiving Break. I made it from 1x01 to 1x09, so I have 3 episodes to go next weekend when I return home. The first 2-3 episodes are the best episodes of the season (so far). If I had picked up this show in the middle of the first season I likely wouldn't be watching the final three episodes. The best part of the show is watching how the vampires interact with the humans and during the middle episodes they simply do not play on that dynamic at all. The main vampire (Bill) and Sookie (Human) have a lot of scenes together, but the middle episodes (1x04 - 1x0 really was a big letdown. The ending looks to be promising.

Another negative aspect of the show is the poor "side-stories". Aside from Sookie/Bill there really is no other reason to watch the show. All the other characters do is make love to one another. Over and Over and Over. It gets boring to watch at some points. It's an interesting story on the whole, but the middle section was a little bad.

Average Episode Ratings (Through 9) - 8.60

I can't express how happy I am with this season of Prison Break. The ratings may be sinking, but the quality of writing has gone nothing but up. It's looking like this will be the last season and with the way the season is going I am very happy with that. I know they had it planned out for one more season after this but I think that if they end it with the quality of episodes that they are giving us then I will be more then happy.

"Quiet Riot" was a fun episode to watch, mainly because of the creativity used in making sure that no one talked in the episode. I always give a little more credit then normal to writers that think outside the box. The ending was forseeable (get all the way there for Michael to trip some kind of alarm) but it was fun either way. One of the biggest storylines that began to impress me was T-Bag's return to glory. I thought his entire season in the gate office has been average, but his speech about Brad in this episode was simply amazing no matter what reaosn he did it for.

"Selfless" was the episode that the entire season was building torwards and now our convicts are on the run again from the law. I didn't really see it coming from Self so I hope we get a big explaination because this seemed way out of character. I thought the girl was going to turn out to kill Self, not the other way around. T-Bag's pretty much dropped right into Self's lap, which should make for an interesting tag team.

Overall - I think season four > all other Prison Break seasons - up to this point in time.