Lost: Season Four Blu-ray

By Samantha Clark -- Video Business, 12/8/2008

DISNEY
Street: Dec. 9
Prebook: now
> Hours of extras will keep fans lost in Lost.

Displayed in widescreen, Lost looks gorgeous in Blu-ray. Hawaii’s blue sea and green forest appear crisp and lush in high-definition. And the inventive menus, featuring moving clips with the actors, bring the five-disc set together nicely. Disney pulled in a lot of actors and production staff for the various commentaries, but the most entertaining is the one for episode “The Beginning of the End,” in which Evangeline Lilly, chatting with Jorge Garcia, says she’ll be known as the small-bladder girl after she has to pause for a bathroom break. The set also offers a host of behind-the-scenes featurettes, covering everything from how the production team kept track of the show’s guns to a look at a special live performance of the Lost soundtrack.

Shelf Talk: Lost is still a juggernaut TV series, and though its more recent full-season releases have not had the stellar sales of the first season, they have still performed well. This is the show’s second Blu-ray release (season three also is available on the high-def format), and though the picture and audio look great, there’s a big price gap between the $96.99 SRP for Blu-ray and $59.99 for the DVD.

TV adventure, color, TV-PG (suspense, violence, sexual content), 604 min., BD $96.99, reviewed on a PlayStation 3 with 118-inch Carada screen, Sony VW60 projector and HDMI connection
Extras: commentaries, featurettes, bloopers, mobisodes, deleted scenes
Directors: various
First Run: ABC-TV, Jan.-May 2008