Season's "Lost" Found its Place in Our Heart.

It seems that for every 10 pieces of crap on television like "American Idol," there is maybe one good show. Good television is not lost, it just takes some searching to find it. Not all TV is directed at the great number of vastly undereducated and sedated Americans occupying the mostly red heartland. This season blessed us with one of the most interesting and complex network shows in a long, long time: Lost.

Having seen every episode from the beginning (thank you, Tivo!), we saw all of the whirlwind changes that have taken place on the dark, backwards, and beautiful island. Few shows have captured the capabilities of the human imagination like this one. In fact, the show's very first scene may go down as one of television's greatest introductions. It involves the perfectly cast Matthew Fox as a doctor thrust into the roll of leader, taking action without hesitation, saving everyone around him as though practicing extreme medical triage after falling 20,000 feet onto a deserted island with 50 other people was something he did every day.

Every character has a complex past, some much more so than others, that has driven them to this strange limbo island, and each has both a talent and a task that only they can serve.

We could go on and on about all the strangeness, the subtle magic, the hatch with no handle, heroin, 30 foot unseen monsters, the crippled walking again, the golf course, pirate ships, cave-ins, rafts on fire, wild boar, interracial tension, and all the other wonders the island has brought to life, but if you don't want to watch after that very short list, go back to the American Idol IV, and forget about the world. For the rest, tonight's show is a 2 hour bad-boy that promises to solve many riddles, while driving you mad with new ones. Starts at 7, kids.