Best of 2008; Best TV Series; Lost Season Four

I have heard many people who liked (or they said they liked) the first season of LOST, saying they hated the second and third seasons. I don’t know why. For me every single season, excepting for some few episodes, is amazing. For me, Lost is the best TV show of this century. It has been completely consequent and I really believe Lindelof know perfectly, since the beginning, how everything will finish (yes Lindelof; who for me is the real mastermind behind LOST, who cares J.J.).

But if there’s something I agree with almost everyone who watch Lost, is that fourth season was totally amazing. There are many cool things in it. First, the flash forwards. The end of season three was shocking thanks to the flask forward, this recourse changes completely the way we look at the show. And suddenly the show is no more about getting out of the island, but about getting back. Well, just in a superficial way, because we know it’s about much more. And taking about what is Lost about, I guess this season, more than any other, shows us the TIME is one of the main issues in it. And then, the flash backs and forwards, aren’t just a narrative recourse, but a symbol of the subjective and bending perception of time. This perfectly exposed in the absolutely best episode of the season, The Constant. In it, doesn’t exist flash forwards nor flash backs, they aren’t necessary and wouldn’t be enough to show us the brilliantly complex time relations. It is an amazing time paradox where the future affects the past making it affects the present. It reminds me the best works of Phillip K. Dick. Just amazing.

This and many other things (including the participation of Brian K. Vaughn.) makes Lost the best TV show of 2008.

PD: maybe I would write other post of the best of TV, maybe best new show, which by the way is The Mentalist, but I’m not sure, because nothing is even close to the greatness of Lost.