Lost: Season 6 (2010)

Quite likely the best-written TV series ever, Lost puts visceral oomph in the phrase "to be on tenterhooks" as Lost fans quiver over the twists and turns of every episode and season. Now the much-anticipated final season of this superb series has reconnected "Losties" with their addiction and resumed the storyline after the previous season's cliffhanger. After an hour-long rapid-fire recap of the first five seasons' storylines, Season 6 launched with a two-hour premiere picking up from the final moment of last season with the ignition of a hydrogen bomb (in the belief that destroying the island's energy source would end the space-time shifts and restore everyone's lives to normal). The fade-to-white leaves us hanging for a few extended moments until we learn that it may have indeed worked. However, through interwoven slices of the storyline, we progressively learn just how more greatly complicated the fate of everyone involved has truly become. We learn just a cryptic bit more about Locke and Jason (partly because each one is still, supposedly, dead) but the most poignant part is seeing the Oceanic 6's lives as if the crash had never happened. (Things get complicated.) Do not call yourself an American and miss this show! Episode 1, LAX Parts 1 and 2 (The bomb explodes and time splits: the Oceanic 6 land uneventfully and continue their tragic lives even as they confront the second Locke and risk death back on the island) [Wow, 54 nonreviews have been posted before I am the first reviewer to actually see Season 6. This review will be updated as the season continues.] 5 stars.