Grade: A | Genre: Drama
Summary: Season 1 of Lost is a can't miss. As good as the final season of Six Feet Under was, I have to agree with the Emmy voters that Lost was last year's smartest and best drama. Take the time to get Lost.

Are you one of the few who missed the plane on the Emmy winning, ABC drama Lost? For me, Alias was starting to reach the point of maximum suckage so I wasn't too keen to take on a new J.J. Abrams drama that didn't have Jennifer Garner carefully keeping it afloat. Plus, didn't Matthew Fox have a Party of Five reunion coming up with dimpled wonder Scott Wolf? Then came that nagging universal praise which I was convinced would soon blow over similar to my refusal to accept compact disks were anything more than a passing fad in high school. Well like digital records, Lost was no fad. It is the most addicting show on television with complex characters, tangled storylines and a core plot that you think is always seconds away from ending yet always spirals on, unleashing hundreds of mini-subplots. Finally for those of us who have been left out of the conversations at the water cooler, we have season 1 on DVD to get us all caught up on the goings on of our favorite castaways. Just make sure that you block off one huge chunk of time because like Lay's potato chips you can't watch just one.

Grade: B | Genre: Comedy
Summary: This is a fine take on the election that was 2004, including all the comic hallmarks that make "the Daily Show" a one of a kind fake news program.

It's been eight full months since we suffered the political hangover of the 2004 presidential election. Ah, it seems like just yesterday we were discussing Kerry's choice of flip flops, whether the red states were going to secede from the blue states and Bush's colossal blunders in Iraq. Wait a minute that was yesterday. No one covered the ensuing chaos better than Jon Stewart and the comedy team at "the Daily Show." They manned the front lines giving us a blow by blow of the mounting ridiculousness of babbling, pettiness and comic fodder of politics. They've chosen to commemorate their witty coverage by packaging their comic insights like a political time capsule. Its just like the one you had as a kid, but you don't have to drop Flint and Snake Eyes into the box then bitch for the next month about how you can't play G.I. Joe without your two favorites guys.

Grade: A+ | Genre: Comedy
Summary: I have to say my expectations were surfing the stratosphere awaiting the release of this box set, and damn it newbie if this collection didn't totally obliterate those meager thoughts.

Do you ever wonder how breakthrough comedies come to whittle their way onto that little glowing friend in your living room? Say we took a washed up ballplayer then made him into a bartender lording over a bunch of zeroes whose asses are glued to the bar stools. What if we took six single twentysomethings and brought them together in affluent New York City. They wouldn't have jobs. Instead, they would simply hang out at the neighborhood coffee shop at 2pm on a Tuesday. How about we go one better and have a show about nothing. Seinfeld even saw fit to lampoon it's own existence when Jerry and George go pitch the sitcom idea to the NBC exec. Scrubs is this grade of revolutionary comedy. They took the tense life and death setting of a hospital and injected a healthy dose of humor, complete with J.D.'s wacky daydreams and runaway inner monologue. How do you sell a show like this to a studio exec in a world of cookie cutter comedies?