"Lost" Exposé (2007)

User Rating:

7.9/10   

Director:

Stephen Williams

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

28 March 2007 (Season 3, Episode 14)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Nikki and Paulo are two more of the castaways with a past just like any of the others. What have they been doing since the plane crash?

Plot Keywords:

Soaked Clothes | Mother Son Relationship | Drugs | Beach | Shipper

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah (archive footage)
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume
Emilie de Ravin	...	Claire Littleton
Michael Emerson	...	Ben Linus
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard (archive footage)
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke
Dominic Monaghan	...	Charlie Pace
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Kiele Sanchez	...	Nikki Fernandez
Rodrigo Santoro	...	Paulo

Runtime:

42 min | Germany:41 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Venezuela:PG-13 (DVD rating)

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Trivia:

Exposé director Stephen Williams cast a fictional Stephen Williams as the director of the fictional Exposé. You can see his name on the clap board and on the back of the director's chair. The gentleman in the sleeveless shirt is the phony Williams, the man in the lower right is the real Stephen Williams.

Goofs:

Continuity: While Nikki & Paulo are drinking champagne in the airport lounge, Shannon & Boone arrive, arguing. Paulo's full glass suddenly becomes less than half full. As Boone and his sister leave to find somewhere to sit, the glass is almost full again.

Quotes:

Henry Gale: I can convince him to do it.
Juliet Burke: How?
Henry Gale: The same way I get anybody to do anything: I find out what he's emotionally invested in and I exploit it.

Movie Connections:

References "Baywatch" (1989)

Superior one-hour entertainment

Perhaps the best episode of the season, it reminded me of an old E.C. comic from the 1950s--a single, short, spooky tale, cleverly told and with a terrific twist. Such a show is, for me, very much superior to the continuity based episodes, such as the following week's, which limp along at a languid pace and reveal little. And it was not marred by the tendency to use musical overlay to dramatize situations and to help the viewers empathize with the characters. By contrast, this episode contained superior writing and tight directing and sharp performances. As such, it represents a high-water mark for the series, and a continued revelation of the absence of community within the ostensible community of beach survivors. Plus, little mention of the now-tedious Others.