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Time awards The Constant as Best TV Episode of 2008
DarkUFO - LOST Homepage — ... sense when you watch, trust me.) The unfortunate side effects of this condition are madness and death, avoidable only by focusing on a "constant": a person or thing present in each time one's consciousness visits. Desmond's constant, he learns, is Penny (Sonya Walger), the girlfriend he left behind when he was stranded on Lost's mysterious island. His journey into his own past to find her in the present is tear-jerking and mind-blowing. Source: Time ...

It's Listin' Time!
Tuned In - TIME.com — ... (the headline says "series," but they're not all strictly series) and best episodes of the year.  If you're interested in my explanations and tortured listmaking process, I offer a few thoughts after the jump.  ...

I like things that are great. Good things are fantastic.
What's Alan Watching? — 'Tis the season for critics of every stripe to start pumping out their annual best and worst lists. (James Poniewozik is way ahead of the curve with his lists of the top 10 shows and top 10 episodes). The Star-Ledger usually runs my list very late in the month (last year's lists of best shows and best episodes were published Dec. 28, and I don't think we have a firm date for this year's yet), so that gives me extra time to ruminate, and to accept outside input. Feel free to suggest either a series, or a special, or an ...

“The Constant” is Best TV of 2008
Approaching Lost — ... Time Magazine’s current issue contains a special feature titled “Top 10 Everything of 2008,” and among its various Top 10 lists are the Top 10 TV Episodes and the Top 10 TV Series. Time has named the Season 4 episode of Lost, “The Constant,” as the #1 TV Episode of 2008. I (and most fans out there) couldn’t agree more! I defy anyone to watch the clip above and not tear up, at least a little. It’s pure gold, and one of the best episodes of Lost ever — primarily ...

TIME names ‘Colbert Report’ episode to its “Top 10 TV Episodes” list
No Fact Zone — ... a medical-university administrator. In one stroke, Colbert rolled up African American history, a tribute to his striking writers, a tribute to his own father (who died in a plane crash when Colbert was a boy) and his own comic self-aggrandizement — after which he joined Young, author Malcolm Gladwell and the Harlem Gospel Choir in singing “Let My People Go.” An only-on-Colbert moment of surreal solidarity. See the original post here Get the full list here ...

The Constant is Time Magazine’s #1 TV Episode for 2008
Watching Lost — Could not say I’m surprised of this choice. This was good TV, man. This was the episode that made what this show is clearer for all of us. The execution was perfect, too. Who could forget this? Here’s what Time Magazine had to say about it —- At its best, Lost rips your heart out while it ties your brain in a knot. This season 4 episode did both expertly. Desmond (Henry Ian Cusick) has been experiencing premonitions of the future since becoming “unstuck in ...

Has ABC found the next 'Lost'?
The Watcher — ... I’d even go so far as to compare “The Constant,” the Season 4 episode of “Lost” that Time declared the best hour of television of 2008, to “The Good Prince,” which is perhaps the best story that “Fables” has ever told. In both cases, characters who in supporting roles came to the fore and starred in emotionally engaging, surprisingly poignant tales. ...

Has ABC found the next 'Lost'?
The Watcher — ... I’d even go so far as to compare “The Constant,” the Season 4 episode of “Lost” that Time declared the best hour of television of 2008, to “The Good Prince,” which is perhaps the best story that “Fables” has ever told. In both cases, characters who in supporting roles came to the fore and starred in emotionally engaging, surprisingly poignant tales. ...

The More You Know: Visiting TV’s graveyard
TiFaux — ... Chloris Leachmen and Jessica Alba will also be part of The Office Superbowl special 4 out of 5 Atlanta Housewives are actually broke Because I love you: NPR’s best albums of 2008 World’s largest sculpture made of TV’s looks like a Jeff Foxworthy joke SciFi is working on a college edition of Ghost Hunters SNL’s Andy Samberg talks about his band the Lonely Island Gang The kids don’t watch TV anymore This day in lists: The top 10 episodes of 2008

A List Of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago — SEE YOU IN ANOTHER LIFE, BROTHER: The AV Club's, Time Magazine's, EW's and Alan Sepinwall's (see also this addendum in the comments) recent lists of the Best Television Episodes of 2008 suggest that we ought to open up our own decision of the same for awards consideration. For me, it's not even a question -- though to be fair I didn't watch The Shield or The Wire, making me a bad citizen. On February 28, 2008, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse treated us to a time-traveling episode of Lost that ...