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Our beloved series season 4 came to an end this week with a much-awaited double episode, which I had the opportunity to watch last night, during a special event organized by the greek LOST community. News of the whole event spread among many LOST fans mostly by mouth and at midnight, Friday the 30th of May a restless crowd of 20-somethings (along with a bunch of older fans, like us:) was gathered in front of a summer cinema in downtown Athens, waiting to storm the entrance and get the better seats for what it is to come.

The set-up for the event was excellent, and the execution flawless. A big Bravo to Zotos and company! The episode itself had its great moments, much action, quite a lot of funny lines and many many ridiculous ideas that had us laughing and commenting through the whole night.

Let's start off the day with some love...Conchord style..Two sexy, loving, caring songs for all the ladies out there, courtesy of the Flight of the Conchords. For any of you unfamiliar with the duo from New Zealand (Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement), Flight of the Conchords is a pop-folk comedy pair that started off with stand-up acts and after critical acclaim in various festivals (including Edinburgh Fringe Festival) they landed a radio show in BBC2. Since then, they have released a couple of albums (including their latest self-titled one under the cult Sub Pop label) and also have their own TV show at HBO (on their way to season two). But enough said, let the ladies gather around for some love...

Our favorite web-seriers-only is back!! IFC has partnered with Nerve.com and agreed to co-produce a third season of Joe Swanberg's hit Young American Bodies. Season 3 premieres on May 27th at IFC.com site and I'm certainly waiting for the 12 brand new episodes. In the meantime, all the previous episodes from the first two seasons are now also hosted in IFC.PS. I'll be checking out the other web series of IFC soon, with a couple of them looking really promising (and another couple looking really lame).

As a quick follow-up to one of my previous posts, here's something that will bring back memories!!! (Barney just had to have a blog...a must!)

In my quest to find something to fill the gap left behind by Six Feet Under and Sopranos, I’ve zapped between a number of different TV series. This led up to last week when I decided to watch How I Met Your Mother and give comedy another chance.

The series has been referenced by some as yet another Friends substitute. Thank god this is not the case (who would want to suffer yet another season of the yuppie branch). The show is about Ted (Josh Radnor), who in the year 2030 narrates to his children the story of how he met their mother (or more precisely how he met all other girls except their mother…well at least during the first season). So, in the form of narrative flashbacks, we get into Ted’s world, where he lives with his best friend Marshall (Jason Segel), his fiancé Lily (Alyson Hannigan – American Pie but most importantly Willow from Buffy) and hangs out (usually down at McLarens’ bar) with legen-you know if you’ve seen the show-dary Barney (Neil Patrick Harris – yeap Doogie Howser/Harold & Kumar) and girl-of-his-dreams Robin (Cobie Smulders).

So, in brief, Ted is a hopeless romantic who is searching for his dream girl/wife to settle down. Marshall is still studying law and fully in love with his 9-year (and only) girlfriend/fiancé Lily. Robin is a news reporter for local media channel and Barney is the typical single successful womanizer (ironically Neil is gay in real life) friend.

While the show is not introducing anything really new in concept (another bunch of friends in NY) and the script is not always at its funniest (with some very cheesy jokes at some points) it has a number of good things going for it. Foremost, it is based on some solid character building and this does actually hook you into watching the next episode. The script also has a number of twists and at some points it actually does hit the right spot for laughs. It is also very easy to watch (I actually saw all 22 episodes of season 1 in just two days without even realizing it), and at the end, that’s what it’s all about; 20 minutes of entertainment without any other fuzz. I’ve already started Season 2 and I must say it does get even better (shame it won’t last me more than another week max). And the Barney character is just legen-you know if you've seen the show-dary and worth checking out the show only for that.

Suit up bro!!!

Not really news or anything, just happened to come across some new online independent productions recently and wanted to pay tribute to one of the most interesting and refreshing web-only series by Joe Swanberg. The lives and loves of young students seen through an improvised, amateur and sexually raw point of view. A must-see at www.youngamericanbodies.com (all videos hosted on Nerve Video site)