“Everybody is wondering what and where they all came from,” rang out Iris DeMent’s jubilant voice every week during the opening credits of HBO’s second season of The Leftovers. She continued: “Everybody is worrying about where they’re gonna go when the whole thing’s done / But no one knows for certain and so it’s all the same to me / Think I’ll just let the mystery be.” DeMent’s voice—a happy medium between a screech and a honk—and the words it carried over her bluegrass ditty were inevitably the most joyous part of every episode. Hers was a point of view almost entirely missing from a show obsessed with people’s points of view: blissful willful ignorance.

When Justin Bieber stepped out in London yesterday wearing an ensemble as inexplicable as the entire six-year run of Lost, it was only a matter of time before Damon Lindelof chimed in with his two backgammon pieces.

This is one of those days where something terrible has happened and we're left to digest both the tragedy itself and the Internet's own messy response to the tragedy, a response that is equal parts informative, vitriolic, sympathetic, self-absorbed, and at times utterly unnecessary. Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof found out how hard it is to navigate such choppy waters when he sent out this tweet earlier today:

Elizabeth Mitchell grills Damon Lindelof for killing off Lost's Juliet, Jimmy Fallon talks about the Late Night Wars on Larry King Live, the top 10 Wipeout spills, and a Cee-Lo/movie mashup to end all mashups.

Today at Gawker.TV, Joel McHale says goodbye to Tyra Banks' talk show, Fox and Friends get a brand new couch, Family Guy does Star Wars, and we're deeply unsatisfied by Lost's finale and just may prefer Jimmy Kimmel's fake alternate endings.

Once upon a time, there was a television show about a bunch of people on an island. For six years it was one of the most fascinating things on TV. And then it ended, in the worst way possible.

As the bigtime Lost finale approaches (Sunday, 9pm), folks are getting concerned that the show won't end satisfyingly. Well, concerned might be too gentle. Some people are preemptively angry. We're wondering today: Do they have a right to be?

Today at Gawker.TV, Kobe Bryant appears on the Modern Family finale, Lost creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof read Dave's Top Ten, Sam Rockwell puts on dancin' shoes, George Lopez talks nonsense, and Google prepares to take over your TV.

You may have noticed that some intrepid Gawker.TV folks ventured to the LOST Exhibition at the Vilcek Foundation last night. Not content to settle for photos only, we also took some video of the event. Please to enjoy.

The most hated men in television right now, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, stopped by the Late Show tonight to do David Letterman's Top Ten list. Video of many fake spoilers and a cameo, inside.

Tonight, a special preview of the Lost showcase at the Vilcek Foundation was held for select members of the press. Somehow we were invited and decided to channel our extreme excitement into photos for the rest of you to enjoy.

Could the show that has redefined science-fiction for the masses be the harbinger of what television-drama will become? While flashbacks and flashforwards gave the audience insight into character's lives, the flashsideways are what could make for cutting edge television drama.

Damon Lindelof and Carton Cuse dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to announce the day the show will end its run: Sunday, May 23rd. Then they all joked about a "Hurley and the Smoke Monster" spinoff. Which we'd watch.

Just when we'd managed to shake our uncontrollable addiction to Lostpedia, brand-new footage from the upcoming Season 5 of Lost has hit the internet. What do we learn (after an interminable recap of previous storylines) about the island hijinks we'll be seeing come January 2009? Sayid gets a gun! Hurley gets a gun! Kate gets a gun! Probably even the baby gets a gun! As is par for the course with Lost, the footage only raises new questions; specifically, where is the return of Michelle Rodriguez (and her vibrator)? And, perhaps most importantly, is Jack's missing chest hair still in the clutches of the smoke monster? [The Lost Vault]