Two for the Road
- Episode aired May 3, 2006
- TV-14
- 43m
IMDb RATING
8.9/10
6.3K
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Jack and Kate bring an exhausted Michael back to camp, where he gives them news about "The Others". Henry attacks Ana Lucia. Hurley plans a surprise date for Libby.Jack and Kate bring an exhausted Michael back to camp, where he gives them news about "The Others". Henry attacks Ana Lucia. Hurley plans a surprise date for Libby.Jack and Kate bring an exhausted Michael back to camp, where he gives them news about "The Others". Henry attacks Ana Lucia. Hurley plans a surprise date for Libby.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Mr. Eko
- (credit only)
Emilie de Ravin
- Claire Littleton
- (credit only)
Yunjin Kim
- Sun-Hwa Kwon
- (credit only)
Dominic Monaghan
- Charlie Pace
- (credit only)
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- TriviaThe Numbers: when Ana Lucia meets with her mother on the roof of the LAPD motor-pool, the numbers on the roofs of the patrol cars are 04, 08, 15, 16, 23, and 42.
- GoofsAna Lucia and Christian are supposed to be in Sydney, Australia, where cars are driven on the left side of the road, therefore the driver's seat is in the right-hand side of the automobile. Since the show is filmed in its entirety in Hawaii, the film was reversed left-to-right in editing for the scenes involving Ana Lucia driving a car. This is obvious in close-ups of the interior of the car, where a mole is on the wrong size of Rodriguez's face (on the left cheek instead of the right).
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A powerful episode, and not only for the ending
SPOILER: Given my (justified, I think) writer-centric view of television shows in general and "Lost" in this case, it is rather frustrating, but also oddly pleasing, that I find myself unable to explain how Elizabeth Sarnoff and Christina M. Kim, far and away the two worst writers on "Lost" as far as I'm concerned, managed to write something as powerful and effective as "Two for the Road". As a result of my frustrating inability to explain this phenomenon to myself, I won't bother trying to explain it in this IMDb comment. I'll just have to settle for giving Kim and Sarnoff credit for writing a script with real depth and quality, and one which features so much great dialogue.
"Two for the Road" boasts one of the most interesting flashbacks on "Lost", with Ana-Lucia meeting Christian Shepard at a bar and agreeing to go to Sydney with him as his 'bodyguard'. It's sheer class as a concept, given what the two characters have just been through, and whether or not it was planned when Ana-Lucia was introduced or not is irrelevant to its quality. The characters choose not to use their actual names for the trip, and what ensues is a rather phenomenally well-written several scenes with the pair, who play brilliantly off each other. It's not just the clever dialogue that's impressive here, it's the depth of characterization, the fact that every action is not only consistent with what we know about the characters and what we've seen them do, but is driven by their previous actions. It's remarkable characterization, and this is almost certainly Christian's best and most definitive episode as a character, and John Terry's performance here is brilliant.
On the island the events are mainly concentrated on the hatch, Fenry Gale, and Michael's return. This isn't a recap, so I'm not going to go into much detail but the key scene here in relation to Ana-Lucia is her encounter with Fenry Gale. His psychological manipulation of her is almost brutally hard to witness, given what the flashback does for Ana-Lucia and how well Michelle Rodriguez conveys Ana's emotions on the island. Watching her first few appearances for the third or fourth time recently annoyed me as much as they usually do, but once you see the full plan the writers had for the character completed it's hard not to see her arc as one of the most effective character arcs on the show. The shocking ending to the episode, which I don't think anybody saw coming at the time, is surprisingly executed very tastefully, and I credit director Paul A. Edwards for that, as well as Harold Perrineau and Michelle Rodriguez. It's a heartbreaking ending to a heartbreaking episode, especially given the subplot with Hurley preparing a date with Libby, on the surface before the final reveal a light, bubbly portion of this otherwise almost relentlessly bleak episode, after the final reveal some of the most devastatingly tough to watch scenes on "Lost".
"Two for the Road" was nominated for a WGA award for 'Writing for an Episodic Drama', and it's a deserved nomination given the excellence of the structure and pacing of the script, and of the dialogue and characterization. Although it might be remembered most for its shocking (and tastefully-executed) ending, the episode as a whole is worthy of just as much praise as its last five minutes. To top it all off, we even get one of the best jokes aimed at fans in the entire series when Sawyer is reading the final ten pages of the "Bad Twin" manuscript and Jack yanks it right out of his hands and burns it. They just love torturing us.
10/10
"Two for the Road" boasts one of the most interesting flashbacks on "Lost", with Ana-Lucia meeting Christian Shepard at a bar and agreeing to go to Sydney with him as his 'bodyguard'. It's sheer class as a concept, given what the two characters have just been through, and whether or not it was planned when Ana-Lucia was introduced or not is irrelevant to its quality. The characters choose not to use their actual names for the trip, and what ensues is a rather phenomenally well-written several scenes with the pair, who play brilliantly off each other. It's not just the clever dialogue that's impressive here, it's the depth of characterization, the fact that every action is not only consistent with what we know about the characters and what we've seen them do, but is driven by their previous actions. It's remarkable characterization, and this is almost certainly Christian's best and most definitive episode as a character, and John Terry's performance here is brilliant.
On the island the events are mainly concentrated on the hatch, Fenry Gale, and Michael's return. This isn't a recap, so I'm not going to go into much detail but the key scene here in relation to Ana-Lucia is her encounter with Fenry Gale. His psychological manipulation of her is almost brutally hard to witness, given what the flashback does for Ana-Lucia and how well Michelle Rodriguez conveys Ana's emotions on the island. Watching her first few appearances for the third or fourth time recently annoyed me as much as they usually do, but once you see the full plan the writers had for the character completed it's hard not to see her arc as one of the most effective character arcs on the show. The shocking ending to the episode, which I don't think anybody saw coming at the time, is surprisingly executed very tastefully, and I credit director Paul A. Edwards for that, as well as Harold Perrineau and Michelle Rodriguez. It's a heartbreaking ending to a heartbreaking episode, especially given the subplot with Hurley preparing a date with Libby, on the surface before the final reveal a light, bubbly portion of this otherwise almost relentlessly bleak episode, after the final reveal some of the most devastatingly tough to watch scenes on "Lost".
"Two for the Road" was nominated for a WGA award for 'Writing for an Episodic Drama', and it's a deserved nomination given the excellence of the structure and pacing of the script, and of the dialogue and characterization. Although it might be remembered most for its shocking (and tastefully-executed) ending, the episode as a whole is worthy of just as much praise as its last five minutes. To top it all off, we even get one of the best jokes aimed at fans in the entire series when Sawyer is reading the final ten pages of the "Bad Twin" manuscript and Jack yanks it right out of his hands and burns it. They just love torturing us.
10/10
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- Oct 17, 2008
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