Need a season 5 recap?

Bone up on last season before the new episodes begin next year.

Yeah, it's still kind of far off, but Season 6 will be here soon. I hope.

Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly gives us the nutshell for each episode and gives them grades.

Do you agree or disagree with his marks?

Recapping "Some Like it Hoth"

You already have an opinion about last night's show. Check out these recaps and reviews for insight into what happened and what it means to the larger themes of the show.

Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly.

Watch with Kristin at E!Online

The Washington Post.

What did you love? Hate?

Why does everyone on this show have daddy issues?

Reviewing 'Whatever Happened, Happened

So, do Kate and Sawyer's actions turn Ben into the man he is today? Did they do they right thing?

What do you think Richard Alpert can do to Ben to heal him, take away his memory and steal his innocence? What does it mean that Ben belongs to them now?

And why didn't Kate and Sawyer change their minds?

Do you think the Losties can change the future or the past, for that matter? Or did Whatever Happened, Happened?

LaFleur: What did you think?

So, Sawyer and Juliet?

And, couldn't you just tell that Sawyer's heart beat a little faster when he saw Kate?

Three years is nothing but it's everything.

Thought, analysis, questions?

This episode marks the halfway point of the season.

Recapping 5.06: "316"

Check out Doc Jensen's episode recap, which is called Keeping the Faith. The literary references keep coming. He probably has one of the most in-depth analysis of the show out there.

They're back. Back where they belong. Back where we want them to be. Nearly 21 months after Jack first bellowed ''We have to go back!'', the Oceanic 6 (minus Aaron, and don't ask why, or else Kate won't kiss you) finally undertook the perilous journey back to the place they never should have left — back to The Island, back to their ''mythic estate,'' to borrow a phrase from James Joyce's Ulysses, which last night's episode had the audacity to namedrop. For now, we only know of three who successfully fell to Earth — all the way to The Island's Dharma Initiative past, no less. There's Jack, blinking awake as he did in Lost's very first episode, this time looking not hopelessly lost, but gloriously born again. There's Kate, whose motivations for making the return trip were deliberately kept from us (all the better for a future flashback episode, my dears).

And here's what E! Online's Watch With Kristin had to say: (At the bottom of the page after you click the link, there are a few spoilers. Don't read anything after the notable quotes section, if you prefer to view Lost with virgin eyes.)

• Easter Eggs: (Attention, English professors: Next time you're trying to explain "intertextuality" to your students, just bring up Lost, and they'll get it right quick...)


• Ben was reading James Joyce's Ulysses, which is, of course, a psychedelic Irish novel that had a few Easter Eggs of its own and was based on the ancient myth of Odysseus, a lost sailor who is kept from his love, Penelope, by a series of wildly unbelievable but nonetheless thrilling adventures.


• Commenter Jules tipped us off to a C.S. Lewis nod: "Did anyone notice The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe reference with the Lamppost Station? They came out of the wardrobe at the lamppost, and it was where they knew they could get back to their world."


• Christian Shephard's white shoes/black shoes situation continues the show's flirtation with those constrasting colors.

And The Washington Post has this analysis. (They have a chat at 2 p.m. Central Time. Will post when it ends.)

What did you think of "316?" (aka "We're not going to Guam, are we?)"

What did you think?

What suprised you?

Is Mrs. Hawking good or bad or somewhere in between? Loved when Mrs. Hawking said Ben was "probably" lying?

What did you think of that Jack and Kate kiss? It seemed a little, well, desperate.

Line of the night had to be from the returning Frank Lapidus, who said "We're not going to Guam, are we?"

Think he'll turn up on the island?

Recap Lost 5.05: This Place is Death

Here's what Doc Jensen at Entertainment Weekly had to say. He has some pretty intense observations about what it all means and time travel. It's very compelling but you might have to think a bit more than usual as your read.

And E!Online's Watch With Kristin.

Here's what TV Guide and The Washington Post had to say.

Is Jack's dad actually Jacob?

Line of the night, uttered by Christian Shepherd (aka possibly Jacob): "Since when did listening to him get you anywhere worth a damn?" (speaking of Ben)

Thoughts?

So, how did it go?

What did you think of episode Five?

Was it what you expected? What surprised you?

Will Ben ever not get his way?

What do you think about the smoke monster?

Remember, your comments post in real time, so you will be able to respond to each other's thoughts and questions.

TV Guide reviews the first two hours

There's not tons info, but definitely don't link to the review if you prefer to know nothing.

There's a lot of hints about the first two hours for those who like to be teased without being totally spoiled.

The review says that the first hour is better than the second. It also hints that there will be a new storytelling device to compliment the old flashforward and even older flashback.

Any thoughts on what that storytelling device might be?

Lost: a funny review

Think it's hard to review Lost if you've never seen it?

What if you're a stick figure?

Check out this amusing review of last season.