Everybody Hates Hugo
- Episode aired Oct 12, 2005
- TV-PG
- 43m
Hurley struggles with a task inside the hatch as he flashes back to disturbing memories. Sawyer and the others learn their captors' identities.Hurley struggles with a task inside the hatch as he flashes back to disturbing memories. Sawyer and the others learn their captors' identities.Hurley struggles with a task inside the hatch as he flashes back to disturbing memories. Sawyer and the others learn their captors' identities.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJin is notable in that he is the only major character who was purportedly unable to speak English before arriving on the island. In Hurley's dream sequence, Jin speaks flawless American English, as actor Daniel Dae Kim grew up in Pennsylvania. In actuality, he was out of practice speaking Korean before he got the role of Jin, since he had last used it as a teenager to speak with older relatives. He was coached on set by a dialect coach and co-star Yunjin Kim to speak Korean as well as someone who had lived there all his life.
- GoofsIn the flashback plot, Hugo is shown with his winning lottery ticket still in hand and has yet to cash it in, when he decides to quit his job at Mr. Cluck's and hang out with his best friend one more time before "everything changes". Yet, when they stop by the convenience store where Hugo purchased the winning ticket and find the local TV crew filming a news segment about the lottery winner, the clerk identifies Hugo as the winner. Even if he had already claimed the prize, the convenience store clerks would have no way of knowing who purchased the winning ticket. Lottery winners remain anonymous when claiming the winning prizes until they choose to go public.
- Quotes
Hurley: Let me tell you something, Rose. We were all fine before we had any potato chips. Now we've got these potato chips, everyone's gonna want them. So, Steve gets them, Charlie's pissed, but not pissed at Steve, he's pissed at me. And I'm gonna be in the middle of it. And then it's gonna be, "What about us?" "Why didn't I get any potato chips?" "Help us out, Hurley. Why did you give Kate the shampoo?" "Why didn't I get the peanut butter?" Then, they'll get really mad and start asking, "Why does Hugo have everything? Why should he get to decide?" Then they'll all hate me.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Lost: Everybody Loves Hugo (2010)
The cast are all good here, and there's a solid guest turn from DJ Qualls as well. The episode is directed very well by Alan Taylor, whose work on "Mad Men" and "The Sopranos" attracted a lot of attention recently. He captures the emotional angle of the episode quite well.
"Everybody Hates Hugo" is a more or less inconsequential episode which I hated at the time of the broadcast (let's face it, you wait a whole week expecting "Lost" to do more than 'entertaining and watchable', so even the solid but unspectacular episodes disappoint on first viewing). Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz would go on to do much better later on, but this, like their first effort "Born to Run", isn't hard to sit through.
7/10
- ametaphysicalshark
- Aug 28, 2008