Early Summer TV Round-Up!

I can understand (to a degree) people who never got into Lost in the first place. A commitment to an unknown, on-going, single-story for, at the time, an indefinite duration requires a large investment of brainpower and time. But I feel sorry for those viewers who 'lost' faith and abandoned ship ... particularly in this third season.

There may have been a few sub-par episodes mid-season, and the massive break after episode six didn't help retain its audeince, but the last few weeks have seen some of the best episodes - and most jaw-dropping revelations - of the three years to date.

This season is now gearing up to an explosive (literally) climax this weekend (which I shall be taping, as I'm off on my honeymoon ... Rachel refused to postpone our departure until after Lost screens, even though she's as big a fan of the show as me), which then lays the ground work, and no doubt establishes some more mysteries, for the final three years.

Meanwhile, Heroes is finally getting into its stride. After a slow start, this thriller (calling it a mystery puts it in the same genre as Lost and I don't think the two are really compatible) is taking off as more and more sub-plots interweave and the tangled threads get drawn tighter and tighter as the disparate group of characters become closer and closer.

Unfortunately, at the same time as these two American shows have really got their groove on, Doctor Who has chosen to tread water for a couple of weeks with acceptable - but average - episodes (The Lazarus Experiment and 42) that served only to feed the through-story about the impending (and pant-wettingly exciting) confrontation between the Doctor and Harold Saxon (who may, or not, be The Master ... the Doctor's arch nemesis).

I will post up reviews of the next Doctor Who two-parter (Human Nature/Family of Blood) and the series finale of Lost once I've returned from Hampshire.