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Lost: Season 5
Season 5
Promotional poster
Tagline: Destiny Calls
No. of episodes17
Release
Original networkABC
Original releaseJanuary 21 –
May 13, 2009
Season chronology
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List of episodes

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.[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 aired 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 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.[5]

Crew

The season was produced by ABC Studios, Bad Robot Productions and Grass Skirt Productions and was aired on the American Broadcasting Company network in the United States.[6] The show was primarily filmed in Hawaii with post-production in Los Angeles.[7] Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse continued to serve as the show runners.[8] Lindelof and Cuse's fellow executive producers were co-creator J. J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Jack Bender,[9] Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz.[10] The staff writers were 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, co-executive producer Stephen Williams and Paul Edwards.

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), ex-fugitive Kate Austen (Evangeline Lilly), mentally unstable millionaire Hugo "Hurley" Reyes (Jorge Garcia), former 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 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,[13][14] 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.[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 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.[17][18][19] Emilie de Ravin returned as a regular cast member in season six.[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]

From left to right: Ben, Desmond, Hurley, Sawyer, Juliet, Jack, Faraday, Sayid, Sun, Kate, Locke, Jin, and Miles

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.[22][23][24] 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. 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.[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". Ilana 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 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.[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]

Reception

Season 5 received mostly positive critical reception. Metacritic gave the season a score of 78, making it generally favorable.[33] Season 5 continued Lost's 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.[34] Overall, the entire season averaged 11.05 million viewers.[35]

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.[36] The only winner among the three was Emerson, who won his respective category.[37] 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.[38]

Episodes

See also: List of Lost episodes

In the following table, "Series #" refers to the episode's number in the overall series, whereas "Season #" refers to the episode's number in 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.[39] A second clip show, "Lost: The Story of the Oceanic 6", aired on April 22, 2009,[40] while a third, "Lost: A Journey in Time", was aired before the finale on May 13, 2009.[41]

Series # Season # Title Directed by Written by Featured
character(s) 		U.S. Viewers
(in millions) 		Original air date
871"Because You Left"Stephen WilliamsDamon Lindelof & Carlton CuseNone13.316[34]January 21, 2009 (2009-01-21)
882"The Lie"Jack BenderEdward Kitsis & Adam HorowitzHurley[42]13.316[34]January 21, 2009 (2009-01-21)
893"Jughead"Rod HolcombElizabeth Sarnoff & Paul ZbyszewskiDesmond13.009[43]January 28, 2009 (2009-01-28)
904"The Little Prince"Stephen WilliamsBrian K. Vaughan & Melinda Hsu TaylorKate12.855[44]February 4, 2009 (2009-02-04)
915"This Place Is Death"Paul EdwardsEdward Kitsis & Adam HorowitzSun & Jin11.862[45]February 11, 2009 (2009-02-11)
926[46]"316"Stephen WilliamsDamon Lindelof & Carlton CuseJack13.161[47]February 18, 2009 (2009-02-18)
937[46]"The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham"Jack BenderCarlton Cuse & Damon LindelofLocke12.078[48]February 25, 2009 (2009-02-25)
948"LaFleur"Mark GoldmanElizabeth Sarnoff & Kyle PenningtonSawyer12.396[49]March 4, 2009 (2009-03-04)
959"Namaste"Jack BenderPaul Zbyszewski & Brian K. VaughanNone11.433[50]March 18, 2009 (2009-03-18)
9610"He's Our You"Greg YaitanesEdward Kitsis & Adam HorowitzSayid[51]10.990[52]March 25, 2009 (2009-03-25)
9711"Whatever Happened, Happened"Bobby RothCarlton Cuse & Damon LindelofKate[53]11.361[54]April 1, 2009 (2009-04-01)
9812"Dead Is Dead"Stephen WilliamsBrian K. Vaughan & Elizabeth SarnoffBen10.395[55]April 8, 2009 (2009-04-08)
9913"Some Like It Hoth"Jack BenderMelinda Hsu Taylor & Greggory NationsMiles9.234[56]April 15, 2009 (2009-04-15)
10014"The Variable"Paul EdwardsEdward Kitsis & Adam HorowitzFaraday9.037[57]April 29, 2009 (2009-04-29)
10115"Follow the Leader"Stephen WilliamsPaul Zbyszewski & Elizabeth SarnoffNone8.703[58]May 6, 2009 (2009-05-06)
102–10316–17"The Incident"Jack BenderDamon Lindelof & Carlton CuseJacob9.428[59]May 13, 2009 (2009-05-13)

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)[60] 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:

-- Audio Commentaries -- Lost on Location -- Building 23 & Beyond -- An Epic Day with Richard Alpert -- Making Up for Lost Time -- Mysteries of the Universe: The DHARMA Initiative -- Bloopers -- Deleted Scenes -- Lost Starter Kit -- Lost 100 -- BD-Live - Lost University -- Season Play

Region 2 Disc 5 contains Easter Eggs.

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