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All seasons of Lost are now streaming on Netflix – will you watch it?

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Minor spoilers for the TV series Lost.


We have to go back, Kate! As of Monday, July 1, all six seasons of Lost are back on Netflix after leaving the platform in 2018. I was a big fan of Lost when it first aired, as were a lot of my friends. When the news was first announced a few months ago, all of the Losties on my social media feeds were super pumped about this. (Lost is already available for streaming on Hulu, but apparently no one really does Hulu on the regular anymore?) The series, which reinvented the “Watercooler TV” genre and spawned a million wannabe shows, will be on Netflix for 18 months, so subscribers have until January 1, 2026 to get their “Man of Science vs. Man of Faith” on. If you’ve never watched Lost and are curious to check it out, here’s a brief explainer and case as to why you should:

What is ‘Lost’ about?


The original “Watercooler TV”, and a precursor to our current binge-watch culture, “Lost” is a television titan that continues to influence the industry even now. The sci-fi drama opens with an intense plane crash as Oceanic Flight 815 spins 1,000 miles off course and lands in the blue waters below. The survivors of the crash wash up on a lush tropical island, but this is no deserted paradise. This island is home to numerous threats including a mysterious, shadowy smoke monster, and a group of violent inhabitants known as “The Others”, and even a polar bear (spoiler alert: that last mystery is never fully explained).

Survivors of the crash include Jack Shepard (Matthew Fox), a troubled surgeon, Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), a fugitive on the run, James “Sawyer” Ford (Josh Holloway), a brash con man, and John Locke (Terry O’Quinn); a survivalist with a big secret. And those are just the big four, “Lost” is crammed to bursting with more memorable characters than I can name, including one of the best villains in television history.

Another critical element of “Lost” is its clever use of flashbacks. Each episode is interspersed with flashback segments that explore what a particular character was doing before the crash. This technique was groundbreaking at the time, and it allowed viewers to get a stronger insight into each of the main cast. Plus, these backstories often add to the bigger puzzle.

‘Lost’ is binge-watching perfection


If you want a TV show that will have you clicking the “play next episode” button as soon as the credits start to roll then you can’t get much better than “Lost”. The show’s ability to craft mystery, suspense and intrigue is second to none, and there are so many stunning cliffhangers in just the first season alone, that you’ll consume it all in mere weeks. Speaking of its early days, I have to give a special mention to seasons 1-3. I would strongly argue that “Lost”’s first half is the most consistently excellent run of television ever made (with only HBO’s “Succession” challenging it). And while some viewers felt the back half of the show stumbled — and I’d acknowledge a few too many mysteries go unanswered — even the weaker episodes of “Lost” trump the best of many modern series (apart from season 3 episode 9, “Stranger in a Strange Land”, which is infamous for being complete filler, and I’ll admit it’s a real stinker).

However, what sets “Lost” apart from its peers is its incredibly compelling characters. Yes, cliffhangers and twists are exciting, but they can only hold your interest for so long without an emotional core driving the momentum forward, and “Lost” has that in spades. You will come to love its massive ensemble cast with the likes of Charlie (Dominic Monaghan), Jin (Daniel Dae Kim), Sun (Yunjin Kim) and Hurley (Jorge Garcia) worming their way into your hearts. And I dare anybody to not get misty-eyed during that scene in season 4’s critically acclaimed fourth episode, The Constant, or get chills during the third season’s gut-punch of a finale.

As noted, I experienced “Lost” as it aired live. Discussing fan theories with my friends and family enriched my enjoyment tenfold. And while that aspect of the show is sadly not possible to replicate in the streaming era, the upside is you can consume all 121 episodes at your own pace. This is a serious boon because having to wait a whole week between episodes and months between seasons was pure torture. “Lost” has such a persistent reputation that I’m potentially preaching to the converted with this article. But if you happen to have missed this show up till now, I cannot implore you more to get started now that it’s returned to Netflix U.S. this week. I’ve watched, and rewatched, “Lost” several times already, but writing about it now has me itching to go back once again.

[From Tom’s Guide]

Like I said above, I was a huge Lost fan during its original run, which started when I was in college. And just like the Tom’s Guide mentions, a huge part for me was experiencing it with other people. My friends and I would have watch-parties and discuss theories, which was fun. I loved finding the different easter eggs in those early seasons, too. I went online to websites that would point them out, got into message boards, and listened to different podcasts to enhance my experience. And while I didn’t love the whole “flash sideways” thing in the final season, I loved the finale. I went to a finale watch-party and we had a blast cheering and crying together.

I know a lot of people who are planning to spend their summer doing a Lost rewatch ahead of the 20th anniversary of it premiering on September 22, which will be marked by a new documentary about the series that interviews most of the cast and crew. Is anyone planning on watching it? You know how you revisit something that you read or watched when you were younger and suddenly, you “get” it differently? If I can find the time to rewatch six seasons of television, I’d love to do a rewatch of the entire series to see if I view it any differently now that 20 years have passed.

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Would it surprise anyone to know that ‘Lost’ was a hotbed of racism?

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I watched Lost during its original network TV run. While I still believe the premise of the show was great and some of the backstory episodes were beautifully done, the show went off a narrative cliff in Seasons 2 & 3 and never really recovered. Even back then, we knew that certain characters and actors were being consciously sidelined in favor of Evangeline Lilly, Josh Holloway and, of course, Matthew Fox’s Jack Shephard. The three white leads. Although I would put Terry O’Quinn in there too, there was a lot of focus on his character. It wasn’t even that Damon Lindelof didn’t know how to land the proverbial plane (ha), it’s that he bungled whole seasons and huge plots and storylines. Well, would it shock you to learn that the whole show was a hotbed of racist crap? There’s a new book called Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood, and the behind-the-scenes stuff on Lost was very bad:

In an excerpt of Maureen Ryan’s new book Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood published by Vanity Fair Tuesday, actors, writers and others behind the scenes claim racial pay disparities, stereotypes, offensive humor and demeaning actions on the set of the TV series. Lost showrunner Damon Lindelof acknowledged issues on set and partly blamed them on his inexperience and pervasive issues in the industry.

When plans to negotiate for equal pay as a cast fell apart, Harold Perrineau, who is Black, and an unnamed actor claimed the group was divided into different compensation tiers with the top level being held by White actors only.

“That affected relationships,” said the unnamed actor, who Ryan nicknamed Sloan. “A lot of us grew very close,” Sloan said. “The thing that kind of created a rift in the cast was money.”

Perrineau, who played Michael Dawson on the series before he was written off in 2008, also alleges that his White counterparts received more screen time during the show’s first season. “It became pretty clear that I was the Black guy. Daniel [Dae Kim] was the Asian guy. And then you had Jack and Kate and Sawyer [who received more screen time],” he recalled, according to the book excerpt.

A writer on the hit series, which ran from 2004 to 2010, claimed they were told Locke (Terry O’Quinn), Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly), and Sawyer (​​Josh Holloway) — who are all White — were the “hero characters.”

“It’s not that they didn’t write stories for Sayid [an Iraqi character] or Sun and Jin [Korean characters],” the insider told the author. The writer alleged they would receive feedback including, “Nobody cares about these other characters. Just give them a few scenes on another beach.”

Perrineau claimed that he brought up the issue to a producer and asked why the story was centered around the White character. According to the excerpt, he was told, “Well, this is just how audiences follow stories” because the characters were “relatable.” In one specific instance, Perrineau took issue with the original draft of the second episode of season two because his character showed little concern about finding his kidnapped son. He made the decision to speak up about worries he could be “another person who doesn’t care about missing Black boys, even in the context of fiction.”

He alleged his phone conversation with showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse — on which he was told the episode was not about Michael — ultimately led to his character being written off the show. Multiple sources claimed that following Perrineau’s exit, Lindelof said the performer “called me racist, so I fired his ass.”

“Everyone laughed,” writer Monica Owusu-Breen said of the incident, according to the book. “There was so much s—, and so much racist s—, and then laughter. It was ugly. I was like, ‘I don’t know if they’re perceiving this as a joke or if they mean it.’ But it wasn’t funny. Saying that was horrible.”

[From People]

There’s much more at that People link, and even more here at Vanity Fair, which published the excerpt from the book. It’s so painful to think of what could have been, what kind of stories that show could have told but didn’t because they needed to endlessly film Evangeline Lilly running around in a dirty tank top. I absolutely believe Lindelof said racist sh-t and wrote from a perspective of “how can we center everything on the white characters.” This was not some old-school TV show from the 1970s either – Lost debuted in 2004 and ended in 2010. There are still people who host podcasts about the show and do big rewatches and talk about Lost as if it was an important cultural moment of the early 21st century.

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Gigi Hadid Lost Weight Because of Thyroid Disease

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While the topic of Gigi Hadid weight loss is still hot, here’s a new twist – the model’s significant weight loss was not intentional, but caused by a thyroid disease.

On the fact that she never wanted to lose weight and her skinnier figure is the result of a thyroid disease:

“My metabolism actually changed like crazy this year. I have Hashimoto’s disease. It’s a thyroid disease, and it’s now been two years since taking the medication for it, so for the VS show I didn’t want to lose any more weight, I just want to have muscles in the right place, and if my butt can get a little perkier, then that’s good.”

… says Gigi.

After Gigi made the revelation about her illness, various media sources started to do a little research and pointed out that Hashimoto’s disease causes weight gain, not weight loss – in addition, others said that patients do not experience symptoms major once they get the right treatment, like Gigi has for the past 2 years.

 

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Amber Heard & Johnny Depp’s restraining order hearing has been postponed

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I was being completely selfish about Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s scheduled restraining order hearing. All I kept thinking was, “Is every entertainment journalist and gossip blogger going to have to hang around for hours on a Friday afternoon and evening to learn the details about the hearing?” But it looks like the much-anticipated hearing has been postponed. And Amber Heard wants you to know that it wasn’t her call. The postponement came after a conference call between Depp’s lawyer, Laura Wasser, Amber’s lawyer and the judge. Wasser asked for the continuance and Wasser also wanted the judge to give both sides to talk about a settlement.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s hearing on domestic violence claims has been pushed to August, and a temporary restraining order against the actor has been reissued, PEOPLE has confirmed.

The former couple were set to face off in a Los Angeles courtroom to address Heard’s domestic violence restraining order request.

The hearing “was advanced and vacated,” the L.A. County Superior Court said in a statement after a phone conference involving Depp and Heard’s lawyers. The official hearing on Heard’s permanent restraining order request has been rescheduled for Aug. 15 and 16, but a status conference has been set for Aug. 2. Heard and Depp are not required to attended the status conference. A source tells PEOPLE that Depp’s attorney Laura Wasser asked for a continuance to postpone the hearing.

[From People]

It doesn’t surprise me that the hearing has been postponed, although it would surprise me if Amber and her lawyers were seriously considering a settlement. Just my opinion: Amber has Depp by the short hairs and she could probably run the table for a possible settlement, but everything seems to indicate that she wants her day in court. Will Amber hold out until August? It could go either way, depending on Depp’s ability to agree to Amber’s terms, I would guess.

In the lead-up to the postponement, Amber and Johnny’s teams were sniping at each other in the press too. TMZ reported earlier Thursday afternoon that Depp wanted the postponement and he was willing to come to the table and negotiate a settlement for everything, including spousal support. Amber’s team then leaked stories about how she would never settle and that Depp is “terrified about what she’ll say on the stand.”

There was also some question about why Amber was in LA this week when she had told everybody that she would be in London for costume fittings. According to TMZ, she returned to LA early because the Aquaman/Justice League costumers thought she was too skinny for a fitting. Apparently, she’s lost 20 pounds in the past few months just from the stress. And here are some photos of a very slender Amber out in West Hollywood yesterday:

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Kate Bosworth doesn’t eat wheat, sugar or dairy, follows 80/20 diet

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These are photos of Kate Bosworth in New York on June 3rd. She was at the launch of an acne treatment, where she was quite overdressed in a pink gown, and out casually dressed in bell bottoms, fug patent flats, and a sleeves striped scoop neck sweater. Self Magazine spoke to Kate at the skincare event about her diet and exercise regime because that’s their subject matter and no one wants to hear what she thinks about fashion. Kate said that she’s on an 80/20 diet, similar to the diets that Gisele Bundchen and Olivia Munn follow, in that she eats a very restrictive diet 80% of the time with indulgences the other 20%. She said that she doesn’t eat wheat, dairy or sugar most of the time but does make allowances when she’s on vacation. I would assume that she eats a very calorie restricted diet regardless, just because she’s so small. She doesn’t look as thin as we’ve seen her in the past though and she does seem healthier overall.

“One day in my mid-20s it hit me that I can’t have a burger for lunch. I’m going to fall asleep,” she said in a recent one-on-one interview with SELF during the launch of Aczone Gel 7.5 percent, a topical acne treatment.

So what’s in her fridge to keep her going through the post-lunch slump? Bosworth stocks up on lean meat, fruits, avocados, walnuts, eggs, and olive oil—ingredients packed with healthy fats. And while she’s filming The Art of More, she is following a wheat-free, sugar-free, dairy-free meal plan (except for goat cheese and goat milk). For Bosworth, a typical breakfast might include a goat cheese omelet with avocado and tomatoes. But of course, the 33-year-old actress has that one thing she could never cut out. “Ketchup is the indulgence that I never give up. Ketchup on everything,” she said.

Bosworth knows that although this diet is delicious, it’s a bit strict. And she revealed that she only eats this way 80 percent of the time. When she goes to Montana to spend time with her husband Michael Polish, it’s a totally different story. She’s drinking whiskey, chowing down on burgers, and cooking ragu in between riding horses and swimming.

So you could say that her healthy living plan subscribes to the “all things in moderation” adage. And that’s her same philosophy when it comes to exercise. “I had a hard time with my exercise routine because I felt like it had to be an hour, and it had to be really rigorous and intense,” she said. “Then, I realized you can go down and get on the treadmill for 20 minutes, and you’ve done something.” And something is always better than nothing!

[From Self]

I have the same question I had about Olivia Munn’s 80/20 diet, how do you count that exactly? Do you just eat well 8 days out of 10 or is it only a rough estimate? In terms of burgers making you tired, on Saturday I actually had a burger for lunch and noticed that I got very sleepy afterwards. (I do eat burgers but only once every couple of weeks and for dinner, so my body wasn’t used to it.) I also can relate to pushing yourself too hard while exercising, just because I don’t feel like I accomplish anything if I don’t work hard for an hour or more. As one of my spin instructors says however, abs are made in the kitchen. It looks like Kate’s kitchen is very regimented. I hate this idea that you have to give up entire food groups to lose weight or keep it off though, it makes a lot of people think it’s impossible.

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Garry Shandling has passed away at the age of 66

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Garry Shandling passed away on Thursday, March 24, in Los Angeles at just 66 years old. Shandling was one of the most beloved and influential comedians of his generation, with a dry, deadpan wit and a penchant for observational humor. He was well-regarded, respected and adored within the acting and comedic communities. He was most famous for his two popular and Emmy-winning shows, The Larry Sanders Show (where he played a late-night talk show host) and the It’s Garry Shandling’s Show. You can see his IMDB here. I had actually forgotten that he was still getting acting work – he’s been in a handful of Marvel movies over the past few years.

Shandling had recently been diagnosed with a hyper parathyroid gland, which he discussed on his last episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. He apparently collapsed at his LA home on Thursday, then he was rushed to the hospital, which is where he passed away. Many are talking about Shandling’s appearance on that Seinfeld show – it’s an episode called “Isn’t It Great That Garry Shandling Is Still Alive” and you can watch it here.

Twitter and the late-night shows were full of tributes to Shandling. Here are just a few along. RIP Garry Shandling and thank you for all the laughs.

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John Goodman’s Kristen Wiig story: was she rude to him or was he rude to her?

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John Goodman sat down with Howard Stern this week to promote his new movie, 10 Cloverfield Lane. We rarely talk about Goodman, not because we dislike him or anything, but because he usually isn’t much of a newsmaker. He works all the time, people love him, he seems like a really normal person. There’s no real scandal, you know? Even Rosanne Barr loves him, and she hates almost everyone. While chatting with Stern, Goodman talked about New Orleans, drinking, SNL, weight loss (he’s lost a lot of weight in the past year, after he gained weight back from his 2010 weight loss) and more. The biggest headline is probably the Kristen Wiig story though, and I still don’t know how to feel. Some highlights:

He was so excited to meet Kristen Wiig, he interrupted her conversation: “She was talking to somebody else, and I was just – I think she’s so great, and the social barriers broke down and I interrupted the conversation. And I would just hate for somebody to do that to me. And she goes, ‘yeah, I’ll talk to you in a minute.’ [makes sound of bomb dropping] It was like the Atom. I shrunk down to Atom size. …I really like her, and it was embarrassing, so I’ll never speak to her again.”

He’s sober now, but he used to drink at work: “I was drunk a couple of times during ‘[The Big] Lebowski,’ but that was way too many for me. That was something I swore to myself I would never do – drink at work. And then that – on Roseanne I started doing that.”

Whether he avoided the Vietnam draft: “I got a lottery number of 30,” Goodman revealed, but said they didn’t ask him to serve because when he went into for his physical they marked him down as being too heavy for his height after recording his height incorrectly. “I would have been the big baby of the Army,” he admitted though.

He loves Brie Larson, his ‘Kong: Skull Island’ costar: “She was so charismatic. She was like the only girl on set and every weekend she would organize stuff to do. We would look at kangaroos. She would organize a trip to an amusement park after it closed … Just stuff for people to do, because she’s nervous about people getting angry or getting on each other’s nerves.”

On politics: “I keep it to myself and it will, you know, give me the cancer… I hate political ads. I hate seeing people … getting swept up into a mob mentality.”

On Obama: “I just feel bad for Obama. As soon as he got into office they started kicking the s–t out of him. For no reason. … He could have a cancer cure and it’s like, ‘No, it’s not good enough.’”

an, I get it, she was in the middle of a conversation and God knows I hate it when people interrupt me or talk over me or anything like that. But still… it was John Goodman! The man is a national treasure! When John Goodman comes over and wants to fan-boy all over you, you hit pause on your conversation and talk to him, you know? It’s like… being interrupted by Tom Hanks or Jeff Bridges. You just let it happen because they’re awesome people.

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