Lose yourself in ‘Lost: Season Six' DVD release

This is what a TV-show-on-DVD release should be: "Lost: Season Six" offers all the content of the show as televised but also a new mini-episode plus behind-the-scenes details.

It's a win-win. Consumers get new material from their favorite show, and ABC-Disney has a carrot to entice fans to buy the DVD.

The highlight of this release, "The New Man in Charge," is essentially a 12-minute epilogue to the series that shows viewers scenes of new island caretaker Hurley (Jorge Garcia) and his assistant, Ben (Michael Emerson).

This new “minisode” begins at a Dharma Initiative warehouse on Guam where two workers load pallets with food and supplies that will be transported by drone planes to the Lost island. Ben shows up and gives the workers their walking papers and severance, courtesy of the new man in charge, Hurley. The Dharma employees are confused.

“We deserve answers,” one says, as if speaking for "Lost" fans disappointed by the lack of answers in the series finale.

This coda seems like an attempt to satisfy fans frustrated by the conclusion that was long on emotional drive but short on substantive answers. "The New Man in Charge" offers up at least four definitive answers to burning questions — including where the supply pallets come from — and includes an appearance by a one-time series regular who had seemed to be forgotten by the show's writers. That turns out not to be the case in this short, sweet, satisfying final bit of the "Lost" story.

Other features include the 38-minute extra "The End: Crafting a Final Season" (producers of other TV shows, including Shawn Ryan of "The Shield" and Stephen J. Cannell of "The A-Team," pay tribute to how to end a series and cast members reminisce), the nine-minute "A Hero's Journey" (cast and producers discuss what makes a hero and the decision to give Lost multiple heroes) and the nine-minute "See You In Another Life, Brotha" (an exploration of the purpose of the flash sideways).

Other features include commentary tracks on some episodes (but not the series finale), deleted scenes, four minutes of bloopers (mostly cast members breaking character as they laugh) and featurettes on specific scenes, including the submarine-hull-breach flood that marked the deaths of Sun and Jin. Click around with your remote on the bonus disc and you'll find additional hidden “Easter egg” features.

"Lost: Season Six" comes in multiple formats, including DVD ($59.99) and Blu-ray ($79.99), which has content from LostUniversity.org. Season-six DVDs purchased at Best Buy come with a bonus disc with short features (each less then six minutes) on filming at Mr. Cluck's, the Sayid-vs.-Dolgen fight and footage from "Lost Live: The Final Concert." These seem like outtakes of the beefier outtakes included in DVDs purchased anywhere.

There's also a "Lost: The Complete Collection" ($229.99 on DVD; $279.99 on Blu-ray) that includes additional extras, a collectible ankh, an episode guide and other doodads.

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