Previously, On Lost: The Paste Archives
As we anticipate the Lost series finale this Sunday, we are slightly amazed at the number of columns, features, reviews and bits of news we have written about the show over the last five years. We’ve loved contributing to the critical acclaim of this fascinating series, and didn’t hesitate to label it as one of the 20 best TV shows of the last decade. As you brace yourself for the end, take a look at all the stuff we’ve had to say about the ABC drama since its inception:... read more
The Super-Impossible Brain-Busting Lost Trivia Quiz
We scoured our brains, and plunged into the Internet’s twin receptacles of Lost ephemera—Entertainment Weekly’s indispensable “Totally Lost” archive and the staggeringly comprehensive Lostpedia—to bring you these 20 trivia questions. If you get even half right, we’ll be impressed.... read more
Who is the Worst Lost Character?
Choose your least favorite character from Lost:... read more
Paste Presents: The Lost Weekend
On Sunday, it'll all be over. Somebody may have left the island. Others may die in an epic final battle. Questions might actually be answered... read more
The Betty Bump: Five Ways to Improve the World With More Betty White
Ever wondered how chillwave would be affected by a Golden Girl? We have! read more
Catching Up With... Community Creator Dan Harmon
"I wouldn't have been surprised if they had cancelled us, but that's only because I'm so used to everyone smiling and then shooting you in the head..." read more
Dave Willis and Dana Snyder of Aqua Teen Hunger Force Talk Tour
The Adult Swim funnymen talk nuns, corpses, meth and so much more... read more
The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #1 Omar Little
The world's most quotable stick-up man terrorizes hardened thugs with an arsenal of guns and a vocabulary that fuses streetwise slang with Shakespearean flair. read more
The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #2 Batman
Best Movie: The Dark Knight Best Comic: Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Best Actors: Christian Bale In 1986, Frank Miller reimagined the then-campy superhero Batman as “The Dark Knight” in his revered graphic novel Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Later, through two standard-setting movies, Tim Burton’s original Batman and Christopher Nolan’s brilliant Batman Begins, we’ve been shown again the pathos-filled story of the burning rage that created the masked vigilante who strikes fear into the hearts of the criminals of Gotham. Often misunderstood by the very citizens and public officials he means to help, Batman follows his own... read more
The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #3 Dexter Morgan
TV Show: Dexter Actor: Michael C. Hall Sometimes, an anti-hero’s most obvious flaw is an abrasive personality. But Dexter Morgan couldn’t be sweeter to his wife, kids and co-workers; the Miami Police blood spatter expert just has a nasty habit of serial-killing. His code of only taking the lives of fellow murderers might appeal to our most primal sense of justice, but making the world a safer place is just a by-product; he kills because he likes it. It’s his slow march towards something that looks like redemption instead that has kept us rapt through four seasons. Dexter is broken,... read more
The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #5 Malcolm Reynolds
TV Show: Firefly Movie: Serenity Actor: Nathan Fillion When Joss Whedon created Malcolm Reynolds as the centerpiece of Firefly, he wanted a hero who is “everything that a hero is not.” Once a sergeant in the losing war for independence, Mal captains a team of misfits in smuggling operations on the edge of the galaxy. His main goal in life is to be left alone and avoid the Alliance government—until he discovers (in the movie Serenity), their heavy-handed plan to fix (i.e., medicate and subdue) the world, at which point he aims to misbehave. He’s broken, bitter and faithless. He’s... read more
The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #10 Benjamin Linus
TV Show: Lost Actor: Michael Emerson With every deliberate squint of his barbed-wire blue eyes, former Leader of the Others Benjamin Linus used to command complete control of his tropical kingdom, dropping hints like crumbs while the survivors fumbled helplessly through the foliage looking for answers. Then his daughter was killed, and the Machiavellian Ben died along with her. Easily convinced to murder his mysterious leader, Jacob, Ben now exists in a no-mans land between the forces he formerly perceived as good and evil and is just as confused and terrified as the rest of the ragged, mud-soaked characters. But... read more
The 10 Greatest Anti-Heroes: #9 Tony Soprano
TV Show: The Sopranos Actor: James Gandolfini To love Tony Soprano, boss of a New Jersey crime family on HBO’s The Sopranos, takes a certain degree of denial. Just ask his wife, Carmella, who he cheats on at every opportunity. Or his daughter, Meadow—he sneaks off from a trip visiting colleges with her to strangle a snitch. Tony is a thief, a compulsive gambler and a manipulator of the highest order, but the pathos James Gandolfini brought to the role of a capo dei capi seeing a psychiatrist for his panic attacks made it all but impossible not to root... read more
Great Expectations 2010: Breaking Bad
On paper, high-school chemistry teacher Walter White is despicable... read more
Great Expectations 2010: Lost
Destiny, to borrow a phrase from Benjamin Linus, is a fickle bitch... read more
Faux News is Good News
Over the last decade, the newspaper industry has buckled. Three of network TV’s longest-running and most trusted news anchors (Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather) have disappeared from the airwaves. And cable news has become consumed by talking heads paid to eternally bicker as if trapped in some earthbound Purgatory, a place where opinion and hearsay are subtly suggested to be fact, and where it’s policy to cut away from coverage of the day’s most important issues to follow a live car chase on the L.A. freeway.... read more
Catching Up With... Top Chef’s Kevin Gillespie
Gillespie, 27, is executive chef and partner at acclaimed Atlanta restaurant Woodfire Grill... read more
Catching Up With... Paul F. Tompkins
The comedian and former host of VH1's Best Week Ever talks to Paste about his new album, Habitat for Humanity and how he'll go just about anywhere for 300 people... read more
New Orleans Gets Wired: David Simon Turns His Sights on the Big Easy
On a late spring day in the early 1990s, a Baltimore Sun reporter named David Simon wandered into the now-defunct Funky Butt jazz club on North Rampart Street in New Orleans, where Bo Dollis & the Wild Magnolias were burning through a scorching set of percussive funk. “From the outside, it was like some kind of Tex Avery cartoon,” Simon says, “where the house is dancing and the window shutters are popping out to the beat.”... read more
The Best TV Theme Music
The little ditties that open TV shows keep growing littler and dittier, almost disappearing into Lost’s single sustained chord. The assumption may be that we’re just going to fast-forward through them anyway, but part of the charm of shows like Cheers, M*A*S*H and Sanford and Son was the musical intro. Fortunately, not everyone has given up on the theme song. Here are 10 current shows with tunes that make us put down the remote.... read more
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