Warning: Spoilers forward.
“Exposé” focuses on the characters Nikki and Paulo, who have been launched at the beginning of season 3 to serve one objective — present what the remainder of the 30-something survivors who aren’t the primary characters do when not coping with the primary plot. Primarily, Nikki and Paulo change Scott and Steve from season 1, two characters so insignificant that the primary characters continuously combined them up regardless of one in all them dying early on. Virtually talking, specializing in background characters like this is not a foul thought, given how the viewers is continually instructed that there are dozens of survivors, however solely actually see about ten of them. “Exposé” grew to become a uncommon episode devoted to non-main character castaways, full with flashbacks. The result’s an exciting, self-contained episode with good meta commentary on the present’s convoluted mythology and even a noir-inspired thriller.
Primarily the “Misplaced” equal to “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Lifeless,” we see Nikki and Paulo by chance come across most of the larger locales and mysteries of the present as much as that time, and fail to say them to anybody. They arrive throughout the Pearl Station lengthy earlier than the remainder of the characters do, however are utterly bored with it, in order that they ignore its objective. Paulo even comes throughout Ethan as he plots the kidnapping of Claire and Charlie, and decides to maintain it to himself. After all, none of this issues as a result of they die in arguably the cruelest approach within the present: A spider chunk briefly paralyzes them, main the opposite survivors to mistake them for lifeless and bury the 2 of them alive.
Watching it right this moment, it looks like trying again at a time when community TV may do wild experiments with episodes. A time when a blockbuster present may dare to offer two random background characters the highlight, solely to kill them instantly.
