This season of Lost has been so consistently entertaining and emotionally satisfying that my expectations for tonight were way beyond high I almost knew going in that there was no way that Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse could live up to them As is often the case with this show my instincts were dead wrong The very first scenes tonight provided a much-needed link back to the game-changing events that kick-started the entire Oceanic 6 storyline this time a year ago I loved that the action picked up right where we left off as Jack screamed at Kates car She actually stopped went back and let him have it reminding him that his abandonment of Aaron and his drug-fueled stupor were certainly hurting his credibility It was at this point that we first heard the name Jeremy Bentham identified by Kate as the mystery man in the coffin It was only after I did some research on the web that I was able to figure out well before the final shot who Jeremy Bentham would turn out to
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Yunjin Kim by Mario Perez/ABC
She was part of one of this seasons time-twistiest moments but to hear Yunjin Kim tell it Lost has even bigger tricks up its sleeve TVGuidecom invited the actress to preview the batch of new episodes kicking off tonight ABCs Lost now airs Thursdays at 10 pmET Matt Webb MitovichTVGuidecom Was it any special thrill if only because of the job security to learn you were among the Oceanic SixYunjin Kim Initially I thought it would mean job security but it doesnt really look that way It doesnt really mean anything If youre not one of the Oceanic Six that doesnt mean youre going to be killed off the showTVGuidecom When you were reading the script for Ji Yeon were you led to believe that Jin was on his way to see Sun Kim Yes and no The Year of the Dragon was a pretty significant sign that we werent talking about in 2005 I got a sense we were in two different time zonesTVGuidecom Were you touched to see that Sun and Hurley are sti
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My reactions to Lost are almost always extreme. Extreme excitement, nervous confusion, fear and joy and wonder all mixed up in one spectacularly emotional bundle. This week, Lost earned the ultimate compliment in the Roush playbook. It made me cry.Yunjin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim have long been among my favorite actors on the show, and their backstory is among the most romantically resonant. The island saved Sun and Jin’s rocky marriage, a union tested by class differences and the self-loathing Jin suffered by having to perform bad acts in the employ of her father. Her surprise/miracle pregnancy was a blessing, but also (given the fate of pregnant women on this island) a curse. In their latest audacious spotlight episode, a gimmicky and uneasy collision of flashback (for him) and flash-forward (for her), we learn that Sun did make it off the island to have her baby: a daughter named Ji Yeon, per Jin’s wishes. Jin, however, was not so lucky. His race to get to the hospital wit...
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My mind is just totally blown right now I know Ive said that before but this time I really mean it I feel like Minkowski after his last fateful ride on the time-travel express Between the frantic searching on the Internet for facts and names and the hysterics that came at the end of the episode I hope I am able to articulate everything coherently Be patient with me Tonight we learned that Sun is one of the Oceanic Six Is that list now complete If you include Aaron in the equation Sun makes six survivors But who the heck knows for sure I am so beyond even trying to figure things out ahead of time at this point I simply surrender to the manipulative story-crafting genius of Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof Ben wouldnt stand a chance against these guys I guess that a person well-versed in Chinese and Korean would have known right off the bat that Jins story was unfolding in China during this episode What was not so obvious at least to me He was i
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Josh Holloway apparently has had it up to "hair" with Sawyer's look.
"It's no shock to say that Season 4 ends with the Oceanic 6 getting off the island," Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof shares with TV Guide. "The real mystery is how, and what they have to sacrifice, and what happens to the people who didn't leave. You get all that this year." Sounds good, we'll take it. But what other intel are producers willing to spill? To find out, we turned to no, not viewers but to Lost cast members themselves for their own burning questions. Warning! The producers' answers could cause a major head rush, if not a full-on Desmond-style time jump.
Jorge Garcia (Hurley): "Is Ben in the coffin?"Carlton Cuse: Come on, Jorge!Damon Lindel
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Yunjin Kim as Lost's Sun
Our favorite castaways thus far have been on the island a few months, but for Lost fans, it's been more than 260 days since Jack's super-freaky flash-forward. As the Jan. 31 season premiere (finally) draws closer, TVGuide.com is offering daily profiles — "refreshers," if you will — of the key players in ABC's island-based odyssey.
Sun, by the "Numbers": The privileged daughter of a successful and wealthy businessman, Sun (played by Yunjin Kim) is a smart, restless housewife with a degree in art history. Sun's modern ideas and independent thinking conflict with her traditional Seoul, Korea, upbringing. Her soft facial features and big brown eyes add complexity and underscore her willful determination — a perfect cover for telling lies
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Question: If you could pick one pair of costars from any show on television that you would say has the best on-screen chemistry, who would you pick and why? My choice, not to influence a great critic or anything, would be Elizabeth Mitchell as Juliet and Matthew Fox as Jack on Lost.
Answer: From Lost, that's a great choice. She's the best thing to happen to that show since Season 1. (By the way, any discussion of the Lost finale in Ask Matt will have to wait until next Friday's column, because of the holiday and other deadlines.) Also from Lost, I'd have to nominate Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim as Jin and Sun. They glow in their scenes together. But my No. 1 couple with chemistry this season, without hesitation, is Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton as the coach and his wife on Friday Night Lights. The most believable, the sexiest, the most intimately in-tune married couple I may ever have seen on TV. Once again, they can do no wrong ...
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Yunjin Kim by Mario Perez/ABC
In case you hadn’t heard, American Idol was in a giving mood this week. Save the children. Save the world. They put Heroes to shame this week with their all-star charity drive to raise money to help victims of poverty in this country and in Africa. The footage was at times quite wrenching, of orphaned-by-AIDS African children and of children in this country dispossessed by Katrina and disenfranchised in urban centers or rural backwaters, seeking relief and comfort and, in the best of all possible worlds, an education.At first it looked like the Idol results show was being awkwardly tacked onto this earnest all-star telethon, for the most part handsomely mounted until we got to that truly bizarre, undeniably creepy Celine Dion/Elvis duet. Reminds me all over again why I resist all invitations to go to Las Vegas, cheese capital of the world. I must have missed Celine’s obit, because there is no way a member of the living human race was responsible for that.Anyway… to th...
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Keri Russell, she of Felicity and Mike Ausiello-is-my-stalker fame, and Match Point's Jonathan Rhys Meyers will play the parents of a musical prodigy in August Rush, a drama shooting this summer in New York.... FX has announced a March 28 premiere for Thief, its new drama starring Homicide: Life on the Street's Andre Braugher.... Kung Fu Hustle was named outstanding film, and Lost lovebirds Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim netted top TV acting honors at the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards, to be broadcast Jan. 29 on AZN Television.
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Lost
Question: Which Lost backstory (about the characters' lives before the crash) did you find most interesting from Season 1? Least interesting?
Answer: That's a tough question. I'll go with my first impulse and say that the episodes about Sun and Jin are the ones that have lingered most with me since first seeing them (I haven't had time to watch more than the extras on the DVD, but I'm dying to). I also loved the twists and turns of Sawyer's back story. And who could forget Hurley and his cursed lottery numbers, But my No. 1 episode of last season was "Walkabout," the early episode that revealed Locke's precrash condition. So many of the stories took me to completely unexpected places that it's hard to pick a favorite, but the performances of Yunjin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim were so emotionally intense that I give them top honors. Least interesting: No reflection on her character, but Claire's story was probably the least developed, so I'll pick that one ...
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