Critic Reviews
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The Lost writers begin the season with a firm grasp on their story and a keen understanding that viewers won't object to the introduction of new characters as long as old favorites are well served. |
| 100 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
Let Lost remind you of how spectacular scripted network programming can be. |
| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
Three more words: Oh. My. God. |
| 100 |
New York Post Adam Buckman
The [first two episodes] are filled with mystery, suspense, action and the lush greenery of Hawaii, where the show is filmed. Be there. Aloha. |
| 90 |
Newsday Diane Werts
This stuff is good. No, superb. |
| 80 |
Philadelphia Daily News Ellen Gray
I still don't know where it's headed, but it feels, finally, as if we could be getting somewhere. |
| 80 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
I blissfully enjoyed every minute of Lost’s smashing Season 4 start. |
| 80 |
Los Angeles Times Mary McNamara
The show is crazy, man, now more than ever, and I mean that in the best possible way. |
| 80 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
The [first two] installments--titled "The Beginning of the End" and "Confirmed Dead"--are gripping, vivid, beautifully executed and loaded with answers to the little mysteries of Lost life. |
| 80 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
So much of the pleasure of Lost is in the way surprise twists arrive completely out of the blue. |
| 80 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
The Lost season three finale was no fluke. The show has got its mojo back, and then some. |
| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
ABC's dense, unblinking and occasionally surreal tale of plane-crash survivors on a strange tropical island moves into its fourth season Thursday with its compass still in good working order. |
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