LOST: Back to the Island: The Complete Critical Companion to The Classic TV Series

For six seasons, Lost remained one of the signature TV series of its era—even as it aired alongside shows now considered to be all-time classics like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men, and Breaking Bad. A group of scientists who converged on the Island in 1970, Dharma worked to understand the Island’s mysteries and use its strange properties for their own research. He tells Locke that learning the truth is “not as simple as opening a dusty old book”—which is pretty convenient, because that means Ben can interpret the concepts of “Jacob” and “The Island” in whatever way will make him seem sage and plugged in.† Every day for Ben is new. Sawyer is upset at Kate’s defiance of Locke, mainly because it screws up his not-so-secret hope that they’ll finally get to be a couple at the barracks.