Lost season 5
Lost: Season 5 | |
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Season 5 | |
Promotional poster Tagline: Destiny Calls | |
No. of episodes | 17 |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Original release | January 21 – May 13, 2009 |
Season chronology | |
The fifth season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on the ABC network in the United States and on A in Canada in January 2009, and will conclude with a two-hour season finale on May 13, 2009.[1] The season continues the stories of the survivors of the fictional crash of Oceanic Airlines Flight 815, after some of them are rescued and those still stranded seemingly disappear to an unknown location and time with the island that they inhabit.
According to Lost's co-creator/executive producer/writer/show runner Damon Lindelof, the season "is about why [the people who have left the island] need to get back".[2] Lost returned on January 21, 2009 on ABC with a three-hour premiere consisting of a clip-show and two back-to-back new episodes. The remainder of the season will air on Wednesdays at 9:00 P.M. EST [3] The season began in the UK and Ireland on Sunday January 25, 2009 on Sky1 and RTÉ Two, respectively.[4] The season will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc under the title Lost - The Complete Fifth Season: The Journey Back, Expanded Edition on December 8, 2009.[5]
Crew
The season is produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and will be aired on the American Broadcasting Company network in the United States.[6] The show is primarily filmed in Hawaii with post-production in Los Angeles.[7] Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse continue to serve as the show runners.[8] Lindelof and Cuse's fellow executive producers are co-creator J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender,[9] Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.[10] The staff writers are Lindelof, Cuse, Kitsis, Horowitz, co-executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff, supervising producer Paul Zbyszewski, producer Brian K. Vaughan,[11] co-producer Melinda Hsu Taylor and Kyle Pennington.[12] The regular directors are Bender and co-executive producer Stephen Williams.
Cast
The cast features fourteen major roles with star billing, all of whom return from the fourth season. Because the storyline follows two different time periods, the cast is largely broken into two groups. The first storyline follows the group of people who have left the island: the survivors' leader Dr. Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox), the fugitive Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), mentally unstable millionaire Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), torturer Sayid Jarrah (Naveen Andrews), grieving wife Sun Kwon (Yunjin Kim), three-year islander Desmond Hume (Henry Ian Cusick) and Ben Linus (Michael Emerson), former leader of the island's native population, known as the Others. The second follows those who remain on the island as they erratically jump through time, following the island being moved in the fourth season finale. They are crash survivor James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway), former Other Dr. Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell), three members of a science team from a freighter offshore, who have joined the crash survivors: medium Miles Straume (Ken Leung), anthropologist Charlotte Lewis (Rebecca Mader), and physicist Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies); and Jin Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim), who survived the explosion of the freighter.[13][14] The only main character to be involved in both storylines is John Locke (Terry O'Quinn), who, at the end of the fourth season, leaves his fellow crash survivors to become the new leader of the Others. However, following the first jump through time, he rejoins the crash survivors and eventually leaves the island and dies, which prompts the other survivors who have left the island to return with his body.[15][16] The character of Charlotte is written out in the fifth episode of the season.[16]
Those who previously received star billing in season four, but will not in season five include Claire Littleton (Emilie de Ravin), who follows an apparition of her deceased father into the forest and later appears in a moving cabin that is home to a semi-invisible man on the island and Michael Dawson (Harold Perrineau), who died when the freighter exploded.[17][18][19] Emilie de Ravin will return as a regular cast member in season six, following guest appearances in season five.[20][21] Furthermore, former main cast member Malcolm David Kelley, who portrays Walt Lloyd, Michael's son, makes guest appearances in the fifth season.[21] Second season main cast member Michelle Rodriguez portrays the deceased Ana Lucia Cortez in one episode.[22]
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Several guest stars from past seasons reprise their roles in season five. Nestor Carbonell appears as the apparently ageless Richard Alpert in nine episodes; Cheech Marin returns as Hurley's father, David Reyes; François Chau portrays Dharma Initiative scientist Dr. Pierre Chang; Lance Reddick continues to appear as the mysterious Matthew Abaddon; Sonya Walger plays Desmond's wife, Penny Widmore; William Mapother portrays deceased Other Ethan Rom; Jeff Fahey returns as pilot Frank Lapidus; and L. Scott Caldwell and Sam Anderson continue to play married couple Rose Henderson and Bernard Nadler, respectively.[23][24][22] Recurring guest stars Alan Dale and John Terry who play billionaire Charles Widmore and deceased Christian Shephard, respectively, may be promoted to the main cast for the sixth season, according to Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello.[25] The character of Danielle Rousseau is present in the fifth season as a younger version, played by Melissa Farman. Mira Furlan, who previously portrayed an older Rousseau, asked for her character to be written out of the series because she did not want to travel to Hawaii to film her scenes.[26] Tania Raymonde returns as her daughter, Alex. Fionnula Flanagan also returns as Eloise Hawking. Kristin Dos Santos of E! online has reported that Sterling Beaumon reprises his role of young Ben for four episodes in the second half of the season.[27] Marsha Thomason also returns briefly as Naomi Dorrit. The producers have stated that Vincent, a dog who survived the crash and lives on the island will be alive and well through to the series' conclusion.[28]
Several new recurring characters are introduced in the fifth season. Two characters introduced in the premiere are Lara, Dr. Chang's wife and Miles' mother, who is portrayed by Leslie Ishii and Dan Norton, an attorney who is tasked with performing a maternity test on Kate and Aaron, portrayed by Tom Irwin.[22][29] Another pair of recurring characters, Caesar played by Saïd Taghmaoui and Ilana, played by Zuleikha Robinson, are introduced in the sixth episode, "316". They may be upgraded to the main cast in the sixth season. Reiko Aylesworth guest-stars in at least four episodes as Amy, a member of the Dharma Initiative, a scientific group that did research on the island in the 1970s.[30] Eric Lange portrays Radzinsky, a member of the Dharma Initiative, in seven episodes.[31] Two new recurring characters are set to appear in the fifth season finale: Jason, a former soldier, and Samuel, whom Ausiello likened to J. R. Ewing.[32] Sean Whalen, who previously portrayed Neil Frogurt in the Lost: Missing Pieces mobisodes, reprised his role in the first two episodes of season five.[22]
Episodes
In the following table, "Series #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Episode #" refers to the episode's number in this particular season. "American viewers in millions" refers to the number of Americans in millions who watched the episodes live or recorded them and watched them within seven days of broadcast. "Lost: Destiny Calls", a clip-show recapping the first four seasons preceded the premiere.[33] A second clip show, "Lost: The Story of the Oceanic 6", aired on April 22, 2009,[34] with a third, "Lost: A Journey in Time", scheduled to air before the finale on May 13, 2009.[35]
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DVD release
The DVD box of season 5 will be released on December 8, 2009 in Region 1 (USA & Canada).[36] It will include all episodes in the season and bonus features.
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