And I got troubles Lord, but not today
Cause they gonna wash away,
This old river gonna take me away.
I need to have this in my life.
The creation of Lost defies nearly everything we know about how successful television shows — or great ones — are made. The idea for Lost came not from a writer, but a network executive. The first writer on the project got fired. The replacement creative team had a fraction of the usual time to write, cast, and produce a pilot episode. The executive who had championed the show was himself fired before it ever aired. One of the two creators all but quit the moment the pilot was finished. Nearly every creative decision at the start of the show was made under the assumption that it would never succeed. Everyone believed it was too weird, too dense, too unusual to work. And it may have been. But it worked, anyway.
It really worked. So well.
Lost’s Elizabeth Mitchell is joining J.J. Abrams’s NBC series Revolution, an hourlong action-thriller that’ll star Giancarlo Esposito of Breaking Bad. “Mitchell will play the compassionate and concerned long-absent mother of the show’s two young leads, Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) and Danny (Graham Rogers), who set off on a dangerous cross-country journey,”EW writes. Compassionate, concerned, but also long-absent — drama!
Any excuse to bring Juliet Burke back into my life is a welcome one. Looks like I have a reason to care about Revolution this fall.
Fact. I am still not emotionally prepared to watch this show again.
In The Good Wife, as with Lost, punishments are few and far between. Our heroes are allowed to keep making questionable choices and getting away with them. They win cases with guilty clients, or get by on technicalities, or sacrifice others in the name of figuring out the island’s mysteries. And every time they get away with something without punishment, it’s as if they’re taking another shovelful from a hole at their feet, until suddenly they’re standing on the edge of a cliff, unable to move without being forced to confront their demons. Will’s acceptance of his punishment is the equivalent of deciding that getting on the submarine to return to the messy but real life before the island. It’s about deciding what kind of person you want to be, rather than preserving who you are.
Brilliant, Vulture. Just fucking genius.
LOST Trivia Question - In the opener of season three (“A Tale of Two Cities”), Juliet plays the song “Downtown” as she wanders around her house. Eventually, this scene is interrupted by Oceanic 815 crashing on the island. However, “Downtown” was a last minute replacement for another song for which the show could not afford the rights. What was the original song playing in this scene?
Best show ever.
I’ve thought about three different TV show-related tattoos:
- 4 8 15 16 23 42
- “Clear eyes. Full Hearts. Can’t Lose.”
- The photo shown above.
Yesterday saw the announcement of an enormous new company that has J.J. Abrams teaming up with his former WME agent John Fogelman, just as we’d predicted back in June. Their new company, FactoryMade Ventures, is a “hybrid entertainment, media business development and consulting firm,” according to the press release, that will develop projects by Abrams, Michael Bay, Robert Rodriguez and reality TV producer Thom Beers (The Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers) for “digital and mobile platforms” and for “cable and network television both domestically and in emerging markets.” In other words, it’s an endeavor that has one eye toward the obsolescence of traditional media models.
Le sigh. I will always be in love with J.J. Abrams.
Not only is this the best tumblr post of all time, but I love that it reduces the entire second season to one gif.
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I’m a complicated guy, sweetheart.
We have to go back.
I gotta testify, come up in the spot lookin' extra fly...
