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Lost
Season Four
SERIES: ABC, Thursday 9:00p (60 minutes)

8.6 based on 12 reviews read critic reviews how did we calculate this? based on 106 votes read user comments rate this tv show

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Starring Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Naveen Andrews, Emilie de Ravin, Matthew Fox, Josh Holloway, Jorge Garcia, Evangeline Lilly, and Terry O'Quinn

After a peek at the future last year, season four aims to show how our lost passengers find their way off the island.

GENRE(S):	Drama
CREATED BY:	J.J. Abrams Damon Lindelof
FIRST AIR DATE:	January 31, 2008

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

100

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.

The average user rating for this tv show is 8.6 (out of 10) based on 106 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Matthew S. gave it a10:
Great Show and Season.... and people who don' like it probably do not understand, or most likely lack the mental ability to comprehend it.

Rory O. gave it a5:
Could have been so much more than what it was. What once took 1 episode to take place now can take 4 or 5 episodes as they drag the show on and on and on.

David B. gave it a10:
Best Season since the brilliant first, so fast paced and plus we get loads of answers. Cast were at there best in this season. Bring on Jan 09.

Liam H. gave it a10:
I really cant wait until the new year for season 5! Season 4 was amazing though!

thedude gave it a10:
I really think this might be my all-time favorite television show. I'm in my early thirties, and whenever I start to get sad of what sad fate befell the Star Wars, and now Indiana Jones franchises that were so stellar in my youth, I just remind myself that I'm getting to see that same kind of magic that those had back then right now on tv, in that I'm treated to something special that will stick with me and I can look back on fondly for the rest of my life. It's true, I don't know if they'll come up with a satisfying answer for all the questions, and the show has definitely had its ups and downs, but just when I start to lose faith in it, it pulls me back in. I feel the first and fourth seasons have been the most consistent. The second was disappointing till Ben picked it up, and the third was really bad until they ramped it up for the last five or six episodes, but now the fourth season really only had one or two episodes I didn't thoroughly enjoy. I'm glad they set the 6 season limit, as they really seem to be moving the story along at a nice pace now, but I will be so sad when that day comes that it finally ends. Got to savor it while it lasts. Will they ever come up with a satisfying explanation for the numbers? I will be shocked if they do, but even if the pay-off isn't all there, the ride has been well worth it.

Harry B. gave it a10:
Having now viewed the entirety of season four, I can now say with authority that Lost is as stimulating and thought-provoking as it was in the first season. That final moment...I'm not sure how they'll top that, or explain what happened, but I can't wait to find out - and that is the measure of ANY show.

Namar gave it a10:
The best, most complicated/intriguing Show On Television, possibly ever.

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