Lost - The Complete Sixth Season: BD Review
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Page 1 of 3 Buena Vista / 714 Minutes / 2010 / Unrated / Street Date: August 24, 2010 
For me, Lost is about unabashed love and dire, brooding hate. When that last episode of the third season was upon us, I literally felt like the show was changing everything - not surprisingly, this writer is a full-tilt TV snob (all self-respecting TV-on-DVD/BD geeks think they know everything about television), but the way Lost started slip-sliding into the future (a flash-forward? BRILLIANT!) completely knocked my socks off. I never knew it was exactly what I wanted from the show. Then that fourth season started, and the time-warps got waaaay overplayed. Sure, the way things ended up made sense to a degree, but what started as a novelty turned into what more often than not seemed like a narrative crutch: Whenever the show was painted into a dramatic corner, it dropped a time-switcheroo and started a new plot tendril. The moral of the story is that if I was desperately and fervently pro-Lost by the end of season three, my relationship with season four was on the rocks at best. And the Fifth Season was neither gorgeously inventive nor painfully misguided - with a handful of exceptions, it was simply kind of dull. Frustratingly, addictively dull.
But now the dullness is gone - and so is Lost. This final season box set was eaten up over here at the DVDFile offices - most of us had seen at least the series-ending episode, but we were nevertheless fascinated to take a weekend and plow through this truncated season with the nerd ferocity of a pocket-protector-wearing smoke monster. And I gotta say that while the final ten minutes of the last episode definitely manifests a certain unavoidable sense of relief - we all collectively exhaled as the show faded to black - the vast majority of this season falls right in line with season five, and that ain't a good thing. It's implicitly difficult to resist the show's twisty-turny storytelling, but this Complete Sixth Season set - like the one that came before it - has waaaay more downs than ups. Of course there's a feeling of accomplishment that comes along with hitting the show's last moments, but it's with reservation that I say that as frequently evocative as Lost was, they really could have cut the vast majority of the last two seasons out completely. It'd be a helluva lot sleeker, more finessed, and, well, better. |
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