Lost: The Best Show on TV

If there was any doubt, it's clear to me now that after watching the third-season finale of Lost, there's no better show on TV. Lost has even surpassed my former favorite, 24, the real-time thriller that I've been hooked on since Day One. But there's a new king in the jungle.

I'm not a TV guru, but I'd be hard-pressed to find another show that successfully blends the amount of layers that Lost does. Themes of fate and redemption along with literary and philosophic references are woven with elements of mystery, drama, adventure, suspense, romance, and a mythology as deep as the Pacific Ocean. Lost has it all.

But most of all, Lost has people. People from all walks of life working together to survive. People whose names you remember. People who all have a past. And through the use of flashbacks, we not only witness the skeletons in their closets, but we see how these people are all connected to each other indirectly, in some supernatural way.

In a move as unprecedented as the show itself, ABC recently announced that Lost will conclude after its sixth season in 2010. As an all-around great call, it's refreshing to know that there's one network show out there whose story is so good that its executive producers won't compromise it by dragging it out longer than it should. And after watching the landmark Season 3 finale with an end in sight, it's not hard to foresee the epic buildup that will result in the final seasons, or get the sense that Lost could go down as the best TV drama of all time.

Season 3 Finale

Onto the two-part Season 3 finale, "Through The Looking Glass," which was everything a season finale should be. Between the firefight on the beach, Locke's resurrection, Hurley's heroics, the showdown at the Radio Tower, the poignant, poetic death of Charlie, and of course the game-changing flash forward, it was undoubtedly some of Lost's finest hours.