Link Tank: TV Blog Coalition Roundup for May 29-31

Televisionary is proud to be a member of the TV Blog Coalition. At the end of each week, we'll feature a roundup of content from our sister sites for your delectation.

This week, I reviewed the full pilot episodes of such series as ABC's Eastwick, FOX's Human Target, and ABC's The Deep End.

I also unveiled the new trailer for BBC America's Torchwood: Children of Earth, shared news about the casting of Karen Gillan as the new companion on Season Five of Doctor Who and BBC America snagging the five David Tennant Who specials and the launch date for supernatural drama Being Human, recounted news about John Lithgow joining the cast of Showtime's Dexter, offered up promos for CW's new fall series Melrose Place and Vampire Diaries, and was outraged over plans for a feature film relaunch of Buffy the Vampire Slayer without Joss or the cast of the series.

Plus, I discussed the latest episode of ABC's The Unusuals (and shared why I'd be missing this unique series), reviewed ABC's animated comedy The Goode Family and FOX's medical drama Mental, and appraised the sensational season finale of Starz's Party Down.

Elsewhere in the sophisticated TV-obsessed section of the blogosphere, members of the TV Blog Coalition were discussing the following items...

Buzz counted down the top 10 reasons she's keeping her TV on this summer. (BuzzSugar)
This week, Sandie interviewed Amy Ryan who plays the adorable Holly on The Office. (Daemon's TV)
With the end of the Spring television season recently passed, Scooter hands out the Fifth Annual Scooter Television Awards. (Scooter McGavin's 9th Green)
Vance has the scoop on the new kids at Degrassi: TNG, the alums moving on to The CW, ABC, and Spring Awakening and his thoughts on the upcoming TV movie special Degrassi Goes Hollywood! (Tapeworthy)
Dan came across this bizarre video of Heroes' Zachary Quinto getting doused with milk. He wants to know what could be done to make the erstwhile Mr. Sylar less sexy in this video. (TiFaux)
Matt isn't good at math, but Edie Falco + a drug-addicted, well-intentioned nurse = must-see viewing of Nurse Jackie (TV Fanatic).
This week, the TV Addict suggested TV, DVD and Online Video alternatives to help you survive the network's summer offerings, or lack their-of. (The TV Addict)

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Have a Burning Question for Team Darlton, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, or Michael Emerson?

Lost fans: you don't have to make your way to the island via Ajira Airways in order to ask a question of the creative team or the series' stars. Televisionary is taking questions from fans to put to Lost 's executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and stars Matthew Fox ("Jack Shephard"), Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen"), and Michael Emerson ("Benjamin Linus") for a series of on-camera interviews taking place this weekend. If you have a specific question for any of the above producers or actors from Lost , please leave it in the comments section below . I'll be accepting questions until midnight PT tonight and, while I can't promise I'll be able to ask any specific inquiry due to the brevity of these on-camera interviews, I am looking for some insightful and thought-provoking questions to add to the mix. So who knows: your burning question might get asked after all.

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What's Done is Done: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil on the Season Finale of "Lost"

Every story begins with thread. It's up to the storyteller to determine just how much they need to parcel out, what pattern they're making, and when to cut it short and tie it off. With last night's penultimate season finale of Lost ("The Incident, Parts One and Two"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, we began to see the pattern that Lindelof and Cuse have been designing towards the last five seasons of this serpentine series. And it was only fitting that the two-hour finale, which pushes us on the road to the final season of Lost , should begin with thread, a loom, and a tapestry. Would Jack follow through on his plan to detonate the island and therefore reset their lives aboard Oceanic Flight 815 ? Why did Locke want to kill Jacob? What caused The Incident? What was in the box and just what lies in the shadow of the statue? We got the answers to these in a two-hour season finale that didn't quite pack the same emotional wallop of previous season ...

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See You in Another Life: Thoughts on The Series Finale of Lost

"No one can tell you why you're here." I'm of two minds (and two hearts) about the two-and-a-half hour series finale of Lost ("The End"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Jack Bender, which brought a finality to the story of the passengers of Oceanic Flight 815 and the characters with which we've spent six years. At its heart, Lost has been about the two bookends of the human existence, birth and death, and the choices we make in between. Do we choose to live together or die alone? Can we let go of our past traumas to become better people? When we have nothing else left to give, can we make the ultimate sacrifice for the greater good? In that sense, the series finale of Lost brought to a close the stories of the crash survivors and those who joined them among the wreckage over the course of more than 100 days on the island (and their return), offering up a coda to their lives and their deaths, a sort of purgatory for found, r...

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