What Kate Does
"What Kate Does" | |
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Adam Horowitz | |
Production code | 603 |
Original air date | February 9, 2010 |
Running time | 43 minutes[1] |
Guest appearances | |
Hiroyuki Sanada as Dogen William Mapother as Ethan Rom John Hawkes as Lennon Rob McElhenney as Aldo David H. Lawrence XVII as Taxi driver Dayo Ade as Justin Daniel Roebuck as Dr. Leslie Arzt Jeff Kober as Mechanic Jenni Blong as Lindsey Baskum Traci Lee Burgard as Officer Rasmussen Tania Kahale as Nurse Yasmin Dar as Nurse | |
"What Kate Does" is the 106th television episode of the
In December 2007,
The title alludes to the second season episode "What Kate Did". "What Kate Does" was watched by eleven million Americans and received mixed reviews by audiences and critics alike.
Plot
2004 (flash-sideways timeline)
In flash sideways,
2007 (original timeline)
Following the events of the previous episode, "
In the jungle, Kate, Jin and the Others come across a trap; Kate activates the trap and overcomes the Others. Jin and Kate split up; Kate follows Sawyer's trail, while Jin begins to search for his wife, Sun-Hwa Kwon (Yunjin Kim). Kate finds Sawyer at the Dharma Initiative's barracks, in the house where he and Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell) had previously lived for three years. He retrieves an engagement ring he had hidden and later talks with Kate at Dharma's dock. He explains that he planned to propose to Juliet and that he blames himself for her death, saying that he convinced her to stay on the island with him because he was lonely. Meanwhile, Jin is caught by the Others, who want to kill him instead of taking him back. Jin runs off but is caught in a beartrap. Suddenly, someone shoots his captors and Jin is shocked to see that the shooter is Claire.
Reception
The episode has received mixed reviews. Critical review aggregate website
"What Kate Does" was largely considered to be a step down from the season premiere in pacing, revelations and writing; Mike Hale of The New York Times described the episode as "contemplative", "anticlimactic" and "subdued" and the flash sideways as "kind of boring and seemingly pointless."[7] Chris Carabott of IGN, who gave the episode a score of 7.3 summed up that " 'What Kate Does' slows the pace down significantly from last week and focuses on telling a character-driven story. This is a welcome change; especially after the heavily plot-driven season five. However, with questions to answer and so much ground to cover during this final season, a better balance between plot and character wouldn't have been such a bad thing."[8] Alan Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger wrote, "Maybe I'll enjoy the 2004 scenes more when we get to some other characters … but this week it was largely a distraction from all that was happening on the island. And even the island scenes were only sometimes satisfying."[9] Further explanations for the generally less positive reception came from Entertainment Weekly's Jeff Jensen with "Lost has a habit of following up its premiere extravaganzas with scaled-down follow-ups that seek to ground the audience and orient them to a more deliberate pace to the season"[10] and Emily VanDerWerff of the Los Angeles Times explained, "Kate episodes … have notoriously tricky relationships with [fans]. Kate's one of the show's most important characters, for sure, but she's also one of the series' most obvious missed opportunities … Lost isn't very good, period, at creating female characters … the show doesn't quite know how to write a woman of action who's also in love … many of the show's Kate flashbacks are just plain silly … there have been a lot of pretty dire Kate episodes."[11] Whitney Matheson of USA Today said that she "wanted to stab Kate with a hot poker" after watching "What Kate Does".[12]
Josh Holloway's supporting performance as a grieving Sawyer was commended by Carabott of IGN, who said that his acting on the dock as he cried and revealed to Kate that he was going to ask Juliet to marry him was "one of Josh Holloway's best scenes of the entire series."
Jack's character development was another highlight for critics, including Carabott of IGN,
Ryan McGee of Zap2it stated that it by no means compared to "LA X", but stated that it "contain[ed] scenes of incredible beauty, based on character work and stakes earned over five seasons [that] made it a fine, if imperfect, hour."[24] McGee also commented that the scene in which Claire arrives at the hospital and is helped by Ethan as "freakin' outstanding" and called "What Kate Does" "one of the funniest in the show's history. Aldo, Hurley, and Miles all got off plenty of zingers, which will be necessary in a season in which both mythological and dramatic stakes are raising higher and higher each week."[24] VanDerWerff of the LA Times,[11] Ryan of the Chicago Tribune,[13] Sepinwall of The Star-Ledger,[9] Jensen of Entertainment Weekly[10] and Mark Medley of the National Post also found the episode to contain humorous lines.[25]
This episode was watched by 11 million American viewers and 1.57 million Canadian viewers.
References
- ^ "Lost - Netflix". Netflix. Archived from the original on 10 February 2024. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
- ^ Perez, Mario (September 21, 2009), "Episodic Photography Caption Information Asset Display", ABC Medianet. Retrieved on February 13, 2010.
- ^ ABC Medianet (January 15, 2010), "Weekly Primetime Program Schedule Grids". Retrieved on January 19, 2010.
- ^ Dietz, Jason (February 10, 2010), "Episode Review: Last Night's Lost, Season 6, Ep. 3: 'What Kate Does'", Metacritic. Retrieved on February 11, 2010.
- ^ Dietz, Jason (February 3, 2010), "Episode Review: Last Night's Lost, Season 6, Ep. 1 & 2: 'LA X Parts 1 & 2'", Metacritic. Retrieved on February 9, 2010.
- About.com. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- ^ Hale, Mike (February 10, 2010), "Lost Watch: Claire, First Blood", The New York Times. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ a b c Carabott, Chris (February 10, 2010), "Kate Plays Chauffeur While Sayid Copes with His Resurrection", IGN. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- ^ a b c d Sepinwall, Alan (February 10, 2010), "Lost, 'What Kate Does': Reviewing episode two", The Star-Ledger. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- ^ a b c Jensen, Jeff (February 10, 2010), "Lost Recap: Staying Connected", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- ^ a b c d VanDerWerff, Emily (February 9, 2010), "Look Out! It's a Kate Episode!", Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- ^ Matheson, Whitney (February 12, 2010), "Lost in a Flash: This Week's Top 10 cCmments About 'What Kate Does'", USA Today. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ a b Ryan, Maureen (February 10, 2010), "Let's Talk Lost: 'What Kate Does'", Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- The Huffington Post. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ a b Murray, Noel (February 9, 2010), "'What Kate Does'", The A.V. Club. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- Daily Herald. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ a b c Poniewozik, James (February 10, 2010), "Lostwatch: Zombie Island", Time. Retrieved on February 14, 2010.
- ^ Tucker, Ken (February 10, 2010), "Your Mythology-Free Lost Review: Kate and Sawyer's Anger", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- TV Squad. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ a b Jensen, Jeff (February 10, 2010), "Born Again Jack", Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- TMZ. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ a b McGee, Ryan (February 9, 2010), "Lost Examines 'What Kate Does' in the Sideways Universe Archived 2010-02-13 at the Wayback Machine", Zap2it. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
- ^ Medley, Mark & Coutts, Matt & Barker, Jeremy & Frenette, Brad & Stafford, Nikki (February 10, 2010), "Lost Panel: 'What Kate Does'[permanent dead link]", National Post. Retrieved on February 15, 2010.
External links
- "What Kate Does" at ABC
- "What Kate Does" at IMDb