Imagine being a young, adolescent boy, who wakes up one day to find himself in a giant ever changing maze, and who has absolutely no idea who he is or why he's there, or even why he has the inklings of memories and yet can't recall anything…just like the other boys stuck in the maze. Why are you being held hostage? Why does things seem so familiar? Who has you locked up in this maze and for what reason? Will you ever be able to solve it and escape?

It's pretty much a given that any episode of Lost featuring Ben is going to be a solid entry, and "Dr. Linus" is no exception. In a previous episode this season, we caught a glimpse of Ben's alternate self, a high school history teacher at the school where Locke ends up teaching. This week's episode delivers on that tantalizing promise and delivers an episode that's second only to that Locke-centric one as best of the season so far.

Caprica is a very different type of sci-fi series, but I've still enjoyed it so far. It's been a bit slow, but last week's episode was excellent and started a storyline I hoped to see continued. Well, it wasn't continued this week, because instead we went back to the slow moving character drama of the first four episodes. I didn't mind that the first handful of episodes, but I thought this episode dragged and was quite boring at times.

When a television show's star decides they want to try their hand at directing, it usually means that said actor is going to be missing for the duration of the episode, so that they can focus on directing duties instead. Such was not the case with this week's episode of Chuck, as Zachary Levi was not only directing this week, but was still front and center in this very funny and insightful episode.

I've been a pretty big Tim Burton fan since I can remember. Beetlejuice is one of my all-time favorite movies and he's continued some solid output even in recent years with solid movies like Big Fish and the darkly comic Sweeney Todd. I'm also a pretty big fan of Lewis Carroll's two Alice novels. Even though I find the books are unfilmable, that didn't stop me from enjoying the Disney cartoon as well as the 1985 TV movie that I used to watch ad nauseam as a kid. Both took a whimsical and musical approach to the source material, because I can only imagine they also concluded that the books as were indeed unfilmable.

Ever since I was a kid, Alice in Wonderland was a story that creeped me out. I wonder if Alice in Wonderland can even be called a story. From what I remember of the book, it’s almost an anthology of poems, misadventures and strange characters that occur almost independently of any coherent story. In fact, Lewis Carroll invented Alice's adventures on a rowing expedition with some of the young children he seemed overly fascinated with, one of whom was named Alice. If Carroll was the Michael Jackson of his time, then Alice in Wonderland was his Moonwalker - an entertaining if not perplexing exercise in nonsense.

It's come to the point in Lost where every episode is now essential viewing. I only mention this because individual episode scores lose meaning for a show like this, operating at a high level, racing towards its conclusion. That's not to say that episodes in previous seasons weren't required viewing, but as the show has progressed, missing an hour here or there could be disastrous. Now, in this sixth season, every minute must be consumed, every line pored over, and every detail scrutinized.

It's a heartache of an episode this week, as Chuck finds himself conflicted with who he really cares for, while he's forced to go undercover as an assassin alias in order to get close to The Ring. It was a very memorable episode for many reasons: comedy, twists, and the ever-evolving character that is Chuck.

Tamara is adjusting to life in V-World and she comes to know a group of gamers. The leader figures out that Tamara is one of the dead in the MAGLEV bombing and tells her so. The leader then ropes Tamara into a virtual bank heist where she learns she is very special. She ends up shooting everyone in the group except her guide, a boy who is very shy in the real world. She tells him to take a message to her father, and he does.

Daniel goes on “Backtalk with Baxter Sarno” to do some damage control and ends up pissing off Amanda, who goes to the studio to take over the interview. Once Amanda gets on the air, many admissions are made that stun the audience, and spell disaster for Greystone Industries. Amanda and Daniel come to a new understanding with each other and fall back in love with each other, more.

After the dizzying heights of last week's Locke-centric masterpiece, it's only normal that there's a drop in quality, relatively speaking. But Lost is on such a roll that even a "down" episode is anything but. Both the flash sideways and the island story were ok, but not spectacular. The real exciting part this week had to do with the episode's title.

Finally, Uther gets reprimanded for his hypocritical ways. His slapdown really went a long way towards my enjoyment of this episode.

I think I've said it before, but it deserves repeating. The Vampire Diaries is the most surprising show of this season for me. There are new shows like Glee and Community I went into pretty much knowing they were probably right up my alley, but I was very skeptical of The Vampire Diaries being just another way to cash-in on the vampire craze that book/shows like True Blood and Twilight were riding. Surprisingly, The Vampire Diaries has become one of my favorite new shows of the season, and this episode only helps solidify that fact.

At this point, is there anything Lost can't do well?

No, I don't know what's going on with the story, but that has very little to do with the enjoyment of the series. The best part is that you can tell the answers are just about to come, on the tip of the show's tongue, as it were.

A poopstorm has occurred with Amanda’s revelation of Zoe’s actions. Daniel gets a beat on from the Adama brothers and Joseph demands to be reunited with the avatar Tamara. Seems Joseph has had a rethink on the avatar, but Daniel tells him that the avatar is lost. Joseph doesn’t care and beats on Daniel as a message to get with the program.