The Hunting Party
- Episode aired Jan 18, 2006
- TV-14
- 43m
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
5.6K
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Jack, Locke and Sawyer follow Michael who left to look for his son. They meet "the others". More is shown about Jack's back-story.Jack, Locke and Sawyer follow Michael who left to look for his son. They meet "the others". More is shown about Jack's back-story.Jack, Locke and Sawyer follow Michael who left to look for his son. They meet "the others". More is shown about Jack's back-story.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
- Mr. Eko
- (credit only)
Cynthia Watros
- Libby Smith
- (credit only)
Monica Barladeanu
- Gabriela Busoni
- (as Monica Dean)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSawyer jokingly calls Locke "Daniel Boone", a reference to the famous pioneer. He is also the namesake for the character Boone Carlyle.
- GoofsWhen Jack, Sawyer and Lock climb up the hill in the forest, there is a manila rope hidden inside the strands of vines.
- ConnectionsReferences The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Featured review
"Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?"
"The Hunting Party" is actually really good, considering that it was written by Elizabeth Sarnoff and Christina M. Kim, the two worst regular writers on "Lost" by some distance. Still, when not faced with the insurmountable challenge of writing something emotional and character-driven without resorting to sappy soap-opera rubbish, Sarnoff is a professional enough writer to take plot points given to her by people with superior imaginations and make a solid script out of it, even throw in a couple of good lines. The flashbacks in "The Hunting Party" never reach the potential they have to enhance the audience's understanding of Jack's character, resulting in them being tolerable medical drama scenes with some slips into the sort of mediocrity one should expect from a Sarnoff/Kim episode, including the big emotional moment, which really ends up being a Sarah Shepard Bitchfest Extravaganza.
All that said, "The Hunting Party" is so tremendously involving whenever it focuses on the island that I simply must admit to it being good. It's fast-paced, quick, funny, thrilling, and just plain fun. The episode focuses on a 'hunting party' leaving to go after Michael, who is pursuing Walt. On the way there's some really fun dialogue building up to the big encounter with 'Zeke', which is one of the best-executed thriller set-pieces on "Lost", no matter how gleefully over-the-top some of it is. My favorite scene in the episode is the hilarious scene between Charlie, Hurley, and Sayid in the hatch which interrupts the tense showdown between the 'hunting party' and the Others.
The episode benefits from excellent direction courtesy of Stephen Williams and some outstanding cinematography from Michael Bonvillain. "The Hunting Party" is, overall, a success in spite of some glaring flaws.
8/10
All that said, "The Hunting Party" is so tremendously involving whenever it focuses on the island that I simply must admit to it being good. It's fast-paced, quick, funny, thrilling, and just plain fun. The episode focuses on a 'hunting party' leaving to go after Michael, who is pursuing Walt. On the way there's some really fun dialogue building up to the big encounter with 'Zeke', which is one of the best-executed thriller set-pieces on "Lost", no matter how gleefully over-the-top some of it is. My favorite scene in the episode is the hilarious scene between Charlie, Hurley, and Sayid in the hatch which interrupts the tense showdown between the 'hunting party' and the Others.
The episode benefits from excellent direction courtesy of Stephen Williams and some outstanding cinematography from Michael Bonvillain. "The Hunting Party" is, overall, a success in spite of some glaring flaws.
8/10
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- ametaphysicalshark
- Sep 29, 2008
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