I was at a party this weekend where someone was criticizing Lost after watching the first three episodes, and basically dismissing it as a cheesy network drama. Frankly, I may not be able to be friends with this person anymore. I couldn’t believe how angry I got inside, but its really because this season of “Lost” has been incredible.

The show has just assaulted viewers with some of the best television I’ve ever seen. Episodes like “The Constant,” “The Shape of Things to Come,” and “Cabin Fever” have taken the series to a new level. I’m not really sure how they can possibly live up to the promise of those episodes, especially in the season finale, but I’m pretty sure they will.

Let’s face it, the season finales of “Lost” are never less than spectacular, with Season 3’s finale setting the bar pretty damn high. Unfortunately, I will be in San Francisco to open the Flight of the Conchords shows, but hopefully I can find a HDTV and a DVR somewhere, because I am pretty fucking psyched.

Check out these quotes from the LA Times piece:

On Thursday, “Lost” will take viewers to that very moment of Jack’s pained “We have to go back!” and move beyond it. It also will disclose “one of the island’s greatest secrets,” according to Emerson.

“Every season, in the telling of ‘Lost,’ the lens pulls back another notch so that the picture gets bigger, includes more stuff, more people, more places,” he said. “So I’ll be curious to see what is now included when the lens jumps back another step. I think it will be more fragmented. The geography of the show as we’ve known it will be upset. Everybody will be in a new place.”

Kim, who said there “will be casualties,” took it one step further: “The finale will change the way you watch the show. It will introduce new variables that would never even be considered previously.”