Interview: “Lost” show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse

With the new season of “Lost” debuting in January and the unleashing of the Season 4 DVD series now, I thought it would be interesting to see what the series show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have to say. In this interview, the writer-producers talk about the series past, present and future. I was especially struck by this comment from Lindelof:

The show that REALLY affected me, however, was TWIN PEAKS, which I’d watch every week with my dad. He’d tape the show on his VCR (remember those?) and we’d watch the episode AGAIN right after it aired in our quest to pull every last clue out of the show.The idea of a TV Show being a mystery and a game that spawned hundreds of theories obviously was a major precedent (that’s a fancy way of saying we ripped it off) for LOST.

That first season of “Twin Peaks” was fantastic entertainment. The second episode with Agent Cooper’s dream sequence involving Laura Palmer and a midget — The Man From Another Place — talking in some sort of backward-forward hybrid speech still stands as one of the most memorable hours on TV ever (see today’s Daily Dialogue). It’s an interesting comparison to “Lost.”

So any fans of “Lost?” “Twin Peaks?”

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