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Lost (season 5)
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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 concluded with a two-hour season finale on May 13, 2009. 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
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". 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 aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 P.M. EST. The season began in the UK
and Ireland
on Sunday January 25, 2009 on Sky1 and RTÉ Two
, respectively. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc under the title Lost: The Complete Fifth Season - The Journey Back, Expanded Edition on December 8, 2009.
and Grass Skirt Productions and was aired on the American Broadcasting Company
network in the United States. The show was primarily filmed in Hawaii
with post-production
in Los Angeles. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
continued to serve as the show runners. Lindelof and Cuse's fellow executive producers were co-creator J. J. Abrams
, Bryan Burk
, Jack Bender
, Edward Kitsis
and Adam Horowitz. The staff writers were Lindelof, Cuse, Kitsis, Horowitz, co-executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff
, supervising producer Paul Zbyszewski
, producer Brian K. Vaughan
, co-producer Melinda Hsu Taylor and Kyle Pennington
. The regular directors are Bender, co-executive producer Stephen Williams
and Paul Edwards.
features 14 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
), ex-fugitive Kate Austen
(Evangeline Lilly
), mentally unstable millionaire Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia
), former torturer Sayid Jarrah
(Naveen Andrews
), grieving wife Sun-Hwa 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 and con man James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway
), former Other and fertility specialist Dr. Juliet Burke
(Elizabeth Mitchell
), crash survivor and former enforcer Jin Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim), who survived the explosion of the freighter, and 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
). 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. The character of Charlotte is written out in the fifth episode of the season, as well as Faraday in the fourteenth and overall one hundredth episode.
Those who previously received star billing in season four, but did not in season five include Claire Littleton
(Emilie de Ravin
), who followed an apparition of her deceased father into the forest and later appeared in Jacob's cabin and Michael Dawson
(Harold Perrineau), who died when the freighter exploded. Emilie de Ravin returned as a regular cast member in season six. Furthermore, former main cast member Malcolm David Kelley
, who portrays Walt Lloyd
, Michael's son, makes guest appearances in the fifth season. Second season main cast member Michelle Rodriguez
portrays the deceased Ana Lucia Cortez
in one episode.
Several of the 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. Recurring guest stars Alan Dale
and John Terry
who play billionaire Charles Widmore
and deceased Christian Shephard
, respectively reprise their roles. 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. Tania Raymonde
returns as her daughter, Alex
. Fionnula Flanagan also returns as Eloise Hawking. Patrick Fischler
plays Phil, a member of the DHARMA Initiative
. Brad William Henke
portrays Bram, a survivor of Ajira Airways flight 316. 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. Marsha Thomason
also returns briefly as Naomi Dorrit. The final recurring character is Vincent, Walt's yellow lab. The producers stated that Vincent survives to the series' conclusion.
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 given the task of performing a maternity test on Kate and Aaron, portrayed by Tom Irwin
. Another pair of recurring characters, Caesar played by Saïd Taghmaoui
and Ilana, played by Zuleikha Robinson
, are introduced in the sixth episode, "316
". Ilana was 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. Eric Lange portrays Radzinsky, a member of the Dharma Initiative, in seven episodes. Two new recurring characters appeared in the fifth season finale: Jacob, the well-known and unseen leader of the Others
, played by Mark Pellegrino
, and his unnamed nemesis (nicknamed "Samuel" in the casting call), whom Ausiello likened to J. R. Ewing and is portrayed by Titus Welliver
. Sean Whalen
, who previously portrayed Neil Frogurt in the Lost: Missing Pieces
mobisodes, reprised his role in the first two episodes of season five.
gave the season a score of 78, making it generally favorable. Season 5 continued Lost decline in ratings, with the season premiere and its next episode being watched by 13.316 million American viewers; the lowest season premiere in the series' history. Overall, the entire season averaged 11.05 million viewers.
The season was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series
, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for Carlton Cuse
and Damon Lindelof
for the episode The Incident
, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Michael Emerson
. The only winner among the three was Emerson. Emerson was later nominated at the 67th Golden Globe Awards
for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
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Lost
Lost (TV series)
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commenced airing on the ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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network in the United States and on A in Canada in January 2009, and concluded with a two-hour season finale on May 13, 2009. The season continues the stories of the survivors of the fictional crash of Oceanic Airlines
Oceanic Airlines
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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
Lost (TV series)
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co-creator/executive producer/writer/show runner
Show runner
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Damon Lindelof
Damon Lindelof
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, the season "is about why [the people who have left the island] need to get back". 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 aired on Wednesdays at 9:00 P.M. EST. The season began in the UK
United Kingdom
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and Ireland
Republic of Ireland
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on Sunday January 25, 2009 on Sky1 and RTÉ Two
RTÉ Two
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, respectively. The season was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc under the title Lost: The Complete Fifth Season - The Journey Back, Expanded Edition on December 8, 2009.
Crew
The season was produced by Bad Robot ProductionsBad Robot Productions
Bad Robot Productions is an American film and television production company owned by J. J. Abrams. It is responsible for the television series Alias, Lost, What About Brian, Fringe, Six Degrees, Undercovers, Person of Interest and the feature length films Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol , ...
and Grass Skirt Productions and was aired on the American Broadcasting Company
American Broadcasting Company
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network in the United States. The show was primarily filmed in Hawaii
Hawaii
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with post-production
Post-production
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in Los Angeles. Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse is an AmericanEmmy Award winning screenwriter and producer, most famous as executive producer andscreenwriter for the American television series Lost for...
continued to serve as the show runners. Lindelof and Cuse's fellow executive producers were co-creator J. J. Abrams
J. J. Abrams
Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, and composer. He wrote and produced feature films before co-creating the television series Felicity...
, Bryan Burk
Bryan Burk
Bryan Burk is an American film and television producer, as well as an occasional screenwriter.A graduate of USC's School of Cinema-Television, Bryan Burk began his career working with producers Brad Weston at Columbia Pictures, Ned Tanen at Sony Pictures and John Davis at FOX...
, Jack Bender
Jack Bender
Jack Bender is an American television and film director, actor, television producer and also a screenwriter. Bender was an executive producer and lead director on the ABC television series, Lost. He directed the series finale of Lost. Bender has also directed on other popular shows such as The...
, Edward Kitsis
Edward Kitsis
Edward Lawrence Kitsis, also sometimes credited as Eddy Kitsis, is an American screenwriter and producer, best known for his work on the popular American television series, Lost and Once Upon a Time.-Life and career:...
and Adam Horowitz. The staff writers were Lindelof, Cuse, Kitsis, Horowitz, co-executive producer Elizabeth Sarnoff
Elizabeth Sarnoff
Elizabeth "Liz" Sarnoff is an American television writer and producer. She has written episodes of NYPD Blue, Crossing Jordan, Deadwood and Lost.-Career:...
, supervising producer Paul Zbyszewski
Paul Zbyszewski
Paul Zbyszewski is an American television writer and producer. He has worked in both capacities on the series Lost and Day Break, and he is the creator of Day Break. He also wrote the feature film After the Sunset.-Career:...
, producer Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan
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, co-producer Melinda Hsu Taylor and Kyle Pennington
Kyle Pennington
Kyle David Pennington is an American television writer. He is credited with writing episodes of the American television series, Lost. He is currently a staff writer on Lost. He was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on...
. The regular directors are Bender, co-executive producer Stephen Williams
Stephen Williams (director)
Stephen Williams is a Canadian film and television director. Williams has directed several modern day television programs including work as a regular director on the ABC drama series Lost, where he was also a co-executive producer...
and Paul Edwards.
Cast
The castCharacters of Lost
The characters from the American drama/adventure television series Lost were created by Damon Lindelof and J. J. Abrams. The series follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial passenger jet crashes somewhere in the South Pacific...
features 14 major roles with star billing
Billing (film)
Billing is a performing arts term used in referring to the order and other aspects of how credits are presented for plays, films, television, or other creative works...
, all of whom return from the fourth season
Lost (season 4)
The fourth season of the American serial drama television series Lost commenced airing on the American Broadcasting Company Network in the United States, and on CTV in Canada on January 31, 2008 and concluded on May 29, 2008...
. 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
Jack Shephard
Dr. Jack Shephard is a fictional character and protagonist of the ABC television series Lost played by Matthew Fox. Lost follows the journey of the survivors of Oceanic Airlines flight 815 on a mysterious island and their attempts to survive and escape, slowly uncovering more of the much broader...
(Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox (actor)
Matthew Chandler Fox is an American actor. He is mostly known for his role as Charlie Salinger on Party of Five, and for portraying Jack Shephard on the supernatural drama television series Lost.- Early life :...
), ex-fugitive Kate Austen
Kate Austen
Katherine Anne "Kate" Austen is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Canadian actress Evangeline Lilly. She is the de facto female lead...
(Evangeline Lilly
Evangeline Lilly
Evangeline Lilly is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Kate Austen in the ABC drama, Lost.-Early life:...
), mentally unstable millionaire Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia
Jorge Garcia
Jorge García is a U.S. actor and comedian. He first came to public attention with his performance as Hector Lopez on the television show Becker and later for his portrayal of Hugo "Hurley" Reyes in the television series Lost. Garcia also performs as a stand-up comedian.-Early life:García was born...
), former torturer Sayid Jarrah
Sayid Jarrah
Sayid Hassan Jarrah is a character from the ABC show Lost portrayed by Naveen Andrews.-Season 1:Sayid fixes the transceiver recovered from the cockpit, and leads a group into the jungle in order to send out a distress signal. Instead, he picks up a looping message . He tries to locate the...
(Naveen Andrews
Naveen Andrews
Naveen William Sidney Andrews is a British American actor. He is best known for portraying Kip in the movie The English Patient and Sayid Jarrah on the American television series Lost.-Early life:...
), grieving wife Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim), three-year islander Desmond Hume
Desmond Hume
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(Henry Ian Cusick
Henry Ian Cusick
Henry Ian Cusick is a Scottish-Peruvian actor of stage, television, and film. He is well-known for his role as Desmond Hume on the United States television series Lost, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination....
) and Ben Linus (Michael Emerson
Michael Emerson
Michael Emerson is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his roles as Benjamin Linus on Lost and fictional serial killer William Hinks in The Practice.-Early life:...
), 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 and con man James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway
Josh Holloway
Joshua Lee "Josh" Holloway is an American actor and model from Free Home, Georgia. He is best known for his role as James "Sawyer" Ford on the American television show Lost.-Early life:...
), former Other and fertility specialist Dr. Juliet Burke
Juliet Burke
Dr. Juliet Burke is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Elizabeth Mitchell. Her character was introduced in the third season premiere.- Prior to arrival on the island :...
(Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth Mitchell , is an American actress/modelwho is known for her roles as Dr. Juliet Burke on ABC's TV series Lost and as FBI agent Erica Evans on V. She has starred in such films as The Santa Clause 2, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, and Gia.-Early life:Mitchell was born Elizabeth...
), crash survivor and former enforcer Jin Kwon (Daniel Dae Kim), who survived the explosion of the freighter, and three members of a science team from a freighter offshore, who have joined the crash survivors: medium
Mediumship
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Miles Straume
Miles Straume
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(Ken Leung
Ken Leung
Kenneth "Ken" Leung is an American actor best known for his role as Miles Straume in the ABC television series Lost and roles in such films as Shanghai Kiss, Rush Hour, X-Men: The Last Stand, and Saw.-Early life:...
), anthropologist Charlotte Lewis
Charlotte Lewis (Lost)
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(Rebecca Mader
Rebecca Mader
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), and physicist Daniel Faraday
Daniel Faraday
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(Jeremy Davies
Jeremy Davies
Father Jeremy Davies , an English Roman Catholic priest whose parish is based around Old Hall Green, is a former doctor and also a leading exorcist....
). The only main character to be involved in both storylines is John Locke
John Locke (Lost)
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(Terry O'Quinn
Terry O'Quinn
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), 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. The character of Charlotte is written out in the fifth episode of the season, as well as Faraday in the fourteenth and overall one hundredth episode.
Those who previously received star billing in season four, but did not in season five include Claire Littleton
Claire Littleton
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(Emilie de Ravin
Emilie de Ravin
Emilie de Ravin born 27 December 1981)is an Australian actress. She is commonly associated with her roles as Tess Harding on Roswell and Claire Littleton on the ABC drama Lost....
), who followed an apparition of her deceased father into the forest and later appeared in Jacob's cabin and Michael Dawson
Michael Dawson (Lost)
Michael Dawson is a fictional character played by Harold Perrineau on the ABC television series Lost. After losing a custody battle with Susan Lloyd , Michael does not see his son Walt for almost ten years. They reunite when she dies, but on their journey home, their plane crashes on a mysterious...
(Harold Perrineau), who died when the freighter exploded. Emilie de Ravin returned as a regular cast member in season six. Furthermore, former main cast member Malcolm David Kelley
Malcolm David Kelley
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, who portrays Walt Lloyd
Walt Lloyd
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, Michael's son, makes guest appearances in the fifth season. Second season main cast member Michelle Rodriguez
Michelle Rodriguez
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portrays the deceased Ana Lucia Cortez
Ana Lucia Cortez
Ana Lucia Cortez is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, played by Michelle Rodriguez. Ana Lucia made her first appearance as a guest star in the first season finale, and became part of the main cast for season two. After Oceanic Flight 815 splits in mid-air, the tail section...
in one episode.
Nestor Carbonell
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appears as the apparently ageless Richard Alpert
Richard Alpert (Lost)
Ricardo "Richard" Alpert is a fictional character played by Nestor Carbonell in the American ABC television series Lost. Alpert is introduced in a flashback of the character Juliet Burke , where he claims to be a doctor for a bioscience company called Mittelos Bioscience; he is later revealed to...
in nine episodes; Cheech Marin
Cheech Marin
Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin is an American comedian, actor and writer who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez on Nash Bridges...
returns as Hurley's father, David Reyes; François Chau
François Chau
François Chau is a Cambodian-American actor. He is known for his role as Dr. Pierre Chang in ABC's Lost, and as The Shredder in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze....
portrays Dharma Initiative
DHARMA Initiative
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scientist Dr. Pierre Chang; Lance Reddick
Lance Reddick
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continues to appear as the mysterious Matthew Abaddon; Sonya Walger
Sonya Walger
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plays Desmond's wife, Penny Widmore; William Mapother
William Mapother
William Reibert Mapother, Jr. is an American actor and former teacher, perhaps best known for his role as Ethan Rom on the television series Lost.-Personal life:...
portrays deceased Other Ethan Rom; Jeff Fahey
Jeff Fahey
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returns as pilot Frank Lapidus; and L. Scott Caldwell
L. Scott Caldwell
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and Sam Anderson
Sam Anderson
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continue to play married couple Rose Henderson and Bernard Nadler, respectively. Recurring guest stars Alan Dale
Alan Dale
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and John Terry
John Terry (actor)
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who play billionaire Charles Widmore
Charles Widmore
Charles Widmore is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost, which chronicles the lives of over forty people after their plane crashes on a remote island somewhere in the south Pacific. He is primarily portrayed as an older man by Alan Dale; Tom Connolly and David S...
and deceased Christian Shephard
Christian Shephard
Dr. Christian Shephard is a fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by John Terry. He is the father of lead characters Jack Shephard , who becomes the de facto leader of the survivors of Oceanic 815 after it crashes on an island, and Claire Littleton , another of the survivors...
, respectively reprise their roles. The character of Danielle Rousseau
Danielle Rousseau
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is present in the fifth season as a younger version, played by Melissa Farman
Melissa Farman
Melissa Farman is an American actress who has had roles in Cold Case, an HBO biopic of Temple Grandin, and most notably in Lost as a young Danielle Rousseau...
. Mira Furlan
Mira Furlan
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, 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. Tania Raymonde
Tania Raymonde
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returns as her daughter, Alex
Alex (Lost)
Alexandra "Alex" Linus is a recurring fictional character on the ABC television series Lost played by Tania Raymonde. She was born 16 years prior to the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, but was taken from her mother, Danielle Rousseau by the Others. She was raised among them, believing her mother to...
. Fionnula Flanagan also returns as Eloise Hawking. Patrick Fischler
Patrick Fischler
Patrick Fischler is an American actor best known for his roles as Jimmy Barrett on the drama series Mad Men, Dharma Initiative worker Phil on the drama series Lost and Detective Kenny No-Gun on the police drama Southland...
plays Phil, a member of the DHARMA Initiative
DHARMA Initiative
The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA , was a fictional research project featured in the television series Lost. It was introduced in the second season episode "Orientation". In 2008, the Dharma Initiative website was launched. Dharma's interests were directly connected with fringe science...
. Brad William Henke
Brad William Henke
Brad William Henke is an American actor.-Biography:Henke was born in Columbus, Nebraska. He starred in October Road and in the movies Around June with Samaire Armstrong and Jon Gries, The Amateurs with Jeff Bridges and Tim Blake Nelson, In the Valley of Elah with Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize...
portrays Bram, a survivor of Ajira Airways flight 316. Kristin Dos Santos of E! online
E!
E! Entertainment Television is an American basic cable and satellite television network, owned by NBCUniversal. It features entertainment-related programming, reality television, feature films and occasionally series and specials unrelated to the entertainment industry.E! has an audience reach of...
has reported that Sterling Beaumon
Sterling Beaumon
Sterling Martin Beaumon, born June 2, 1995, is an American teen actor and singer. He is best known for his lead roles as Max Doyle in the 2008 film Mostly Ghostly: Who Let the Ghosts Out? and as young Benjamin Linus in the ABC television series, Lost...
reprises his role of young Ben for four episodes in the second half of the season. Marsha Thomason
Marsha Thomason
Marsha Lisa Thomason is an English actress, who is known in the United States for playing Nessa Holt in the first two seasons of the NBC series Las Vegas, for her recurring role on ABC's Lost as Naomi Dorrit, and for playing FBI agent Diana Berrigan on USA Network's White Collar.-Early...
also returns briefly as Naomi Dorrit. The final recurring character is Vincent, Walt's yellow lab. The producers stated that Vincent survives to the series' conclusion.
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 given the task of performing a maternity test on Kate and Aaron, portrayed by Tom Irwin
Tom Irwin (actor)
Tom Irwin is an American film, television, and stage actor.-Biography:Born in Peoria, Illinois, Irwin graduated from Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. He was a founding member of the Steppenwolf Theatre after college, along with Laurie Metcalf, John Malkovich, Joan Allen, and Gary...
. Another pair of recurring characters, Caesar played by Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui
Saïd Taghmaoui is a French actor and screenwriter. One of his defining screen roles was that of Saïd in the award winning 1995 French film La Haine directed by Mathieu Kassovitz...
and Ilana, played by Zuleikha Robinson
Zuleikha Robinson
Zuleikha Robinson is an English actress, raised in Thailand and Malaysia by a Burmese-Indian mother and an English father. She is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Los Angeles, and best known for playing Ilana in the ABC show Lost.In 2006, she played a Bengali character called...
, are introduced in the sixth episode, "316
316 (Lost)
"316" is the sixth television episode of the fifth season of ABC's Lost. The 92nd episode of the show overall, "316" aired on February 18, 2009 on ABC in the United States, and was simulcast on A in Canada...
". Ilana was upgraded to the main cast in the sixth season. Reiko Aylesworth
Reiko Aylesworth
Reiko M. Aylesworth is an American film, television and stage actress, best known for her role on the television series 24 as Michelle Dessler.-Life and career:...
guest-stars in at least four episodes as Amy, a member of the Dharma Initiative
DHARMA Initiative
The Dharma Initiative, also written DHARMA , was a fictional research project featured in the television series Lost. It was introduced in the second season episode "Orientation". In 2008, the Dharma Initiative website was launched. Dharma's interests were directly connected with fringe science...
, a scientific group that did research on the island in the 1970s. Eric Lange portrays Radzinsky, a member of the Dharma Initiative, in seven episodes. Two new recurring characters appeared in the fifth season finale: Jacob, the well-known and unseen leader of the Others
The Others (Lost)
The Others are a group of fictional characters who inhabit the mysterious island in the American television series Lost. Most serve as antagonists to the series' main characters, although more recently they seem less hostile to the survivors of Flight 815 and have become their allies to overcome...
, played by Mark Pellegrino
Mark Pellegrino
Mark Ross Pellegrino is an American actor of film and television. He is best known for his work on Lost as Jacob and for playing Lucifer on Supernatural.-Career:...
, and his unnamed nemesis (nicknamed "Samuel" in the casting call), whom Ausiello likened to J. R. Ewing and is portrayed by Titus Welliver
Titus Welliver
Titus Welliver is an American actor. He is best known for his recurring roles on the television shows Deadwood, Lost, Sons of Anarchy and The Good Wife...
. Sean Whalen
Sean Whalen
Sean M. Whalen is an American film, television, and stage actor.Whalen was born in Washington D.C. in 1964, the youngest of four children, he was raised in Silver Spring/Olney, Maryland. He attended Sherwood High School and graduated from UCLA. He worked as a waiter while studying and performing...
, who previously portrayed Neil Frogurt in the Lost: Missing Pieces
Lost: Missing Pieces
Lost: Missing Pieces is a series of thirteen video clips ranging in length from one to four minutes that aired during the hiatus between the 3rd and 4th seasons of the television show Lost, from which the series is spun off...
mobisodes, reprised his role in the first two episodes of season five.
Reception
Season 5 received mostly positive critical reception. MetacriticMetacritic
Metacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
gave the season a score of 78, making it generally favorable. Season 5 continued Lost decline in ratings, with the season premiere and its next episode being watched by 13.316 million American viewers; the lowest season premiere in the series' history. Overall, the entire season averaged 11.05 million viewers.
The season was also nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series
This page lists the winners and nominees for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, since its institution in 1951. The award is often cited as one of the "main awards" at the Emmys ceremonies, and has changed names many times in its history. It was first called Best Dramatic Show...
, Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse
Carlton Cuse is an AmericanEmmy Award winning screenwriter and producer, most famous as executive producer andscreenwriter for the American television series Lost for...
and Damon Lindelof
Damon Lindelof
Damon Laurence Lindelof is an American television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator and executive producer for the television series Lost. He has written for and produced Crossing Jordan, and wrote for Nash Bridges, Wasteland, and the MTV anthology series Undressed...
for the episode The Incident
The Incident (Lost)
"The Incident" is the season finale of the fifth season of ABC's Lost, consisting of its 16th and 17th episodes. Both parts of "The Incident", the show's 102nd and 103rd episodes overall, aired on May 13, 2009 on ABC in the United States. The episode was written by executive producers/showrunners...
, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for Michael Emerson
Michael Emerson
Michael Emerson is an American actor who is perhaps best known for his roles as Benjamin Linus on Lost and fictional serial killer William Hinks in The Practice.-Early life:...
. The only winner among the three was Emerson. Emerson was later nominated at the 67th Golden Globe Awards
67th Golden Globe Awards
The 67th Golden Globe Awards was telecasted live from the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California on Sunday, January 17, 2010 by NBC, from 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM and 8:00PM – 11:00 PM . The ceremonies were hosted by Ricky Gervais, and were broadcast live for the first time.Nominations were...
for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
Episodes
The number in the "№" column refers to the episode's number within the overall series, whereas the number in the "#" column refers to the episode's number within this particular season. "U.S. 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. A second clip show, "Lost: The Story of the Oceanic 6", aired on April 22, 2009, while a third, "Lost: A Journey in Time", was aired before the finale on May 13, 2009.|-
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DVD and Blu-ray release
The DVD and Blu-ray box set of season 5 was released on December 8, 2009 in Region 1 (USA & Canada) on October 21, 2009 in Region 4 (Australia), and on October 26, 2009 in Region 2. It includes all episodes in the season and bonus features including:| Lost: The Complete Fifth Season - The Journey Back - Expanded Edition | |||||
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External links
- Lost (season 5) at MetacriticMetacriticMetacritic.com is a website that collates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows and DVDs. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged. An excerpt of each review is provided along with a hyperlink to the source. Three colour codes of Green,...
- Lost Season 5 at "LostpediaLostpediaLostpedia is a wiki-powered online encyclopedia of information regarding the American television drama Lost. Launched on September 22, 2005 by Kevin Croy, the site uses MediaWiki software to maintain a user-created database of information...
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