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TV's most philosophical entertainment — or most entertaining work of philosophy — piled on plot curlicues like the toppings on an oversize novelty sundae. While I had to demote this series a few places for the lackluster six-episode appetizer that began Season 3, Season 2 closed with a rush of complications, feats of storytelling brio and out-and-out holy-crap moments (don't even tell me you knew Michael was going to shoot Libby) that would have placed it a solid #2 behind The Wire. Maddening as its mystery could be (O.K., so the smoke monster was set up by the Others who live by the four-toed statue and — hang on, let me grab a pencil ...), great writing, tantalizing details and ever richer characters made it a yarn worth getting more deeply entangled in.

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