"Alcatraz" - DVR Record Series Options: ALL NEW EPISODES.

Easy call. If the first two episodes of Fox's new mystery-drama "Alcatraz" (8 p.m. tonight) are any indication, I'm enthusiastically in.

The premise of this captivating new JJ Abrams show is that when the legendary Alcatraz prison shut down in March of 1963 and prisoners and guards were transferred off the island, 302 of them vanished into thin air. Then suddenly, the missing people begin showing up one by one in present day San Francisco. The action of the show flips back and forth in time from 1960 (or 1963) to 2012.

The missing, dubbed The 63s, are being tracked by federal agent Emerson Hauser, played by a scowling Sam Neill. Neill, who can be menacing in the role, has a unique connection to The Rock and to the missing 63s. Sarah Jones plays San Francisco detective Rebecca Madsen, one of those beautiful-but-slightly-damaged TV cops that every crime show apparently needs. Her damage (at least the damage we know about so far): her last partner was killed in front of her in the line of duty and her parents died when she was a child. She was raised by "uncle" Ray (Robert Forster), who was a guard on Alcatraz, as was her long-deceased grandfather.

Henry Ian Cusick is joining NBC's "Law & Order: SVU" next season for at least two episodes.

He'll play a graphic artist and the show's executive producer doesn't rule out the possibility of a little romance with Mariska Hargitay's Detective Olivia Benson.

We can dream, can't we?

Nestor Carbonell, who played Richard Alpert on ABC's "Lost," will join "Psych" this season for a multi-episode arc as a criminal profiler who rivals pretend-psychic Shawn (James Roday) both professionally and romantically (Jules, no!).

According to Fancast, Gus (Dule Hill) even dubs the character, "Shawn 2.0."

Ouch.

Lost finale (8pm, ABC) - The two-hour "Lost" finale repeats, so if you had any DVR issues or weird interruptions last Sunday, this is your do-over. The finale is followed by Jimmy Kimmel's hilarious "Aloha to Lost" special at 10:05. Not sure how they will cram the original 150-minute finale into 125 minutes, but it probably involves time travel. 

The Special Relationship (9pm, HBO) - The third of Peter Mogran's Tony Blair movies is one focusing on the former British Prime Minister's friendship with President Bill Clinton (Dennis Quaid). Blair is played once again by Michael Sheen, and Hope Davis plays Hillary Clinton. The action of the movie involves recounting the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal, and according to The Washington Post's Hank Stuever, Davis is fantastic as Hillary. Quaid? Not so much. Stuever calls Quaid "awful" and likens his portrayal to Foghorn Leghorn. 

Dear Genevieve (9pm, HGTV) - One of my very favorite shows on HGTV features designer Genevieve Gorder helping viewers with problem rooms in their homes. The kitchen makeovers might be my favorite, but they're all good. Tonight she helps a newlywed couple remodel a bathroom. It's not as boring as I just made it sound.

Below is the transcript of today's "Lost" finale live chat hosted by our extraordinary "Lost" blogger, Luci Chavez.

If you want to read Luci's 3-part recap of the big finale (as well as recaps of all episodes this season), they're all right here.

The last installment of Luci's 3-part "Lost" finale recap (read  part 2):

SPOILER ALERT

A taxi arrives at a church. It's Real Locke in WITPDCAR. He gets into his wheelchair. He sees Ben outside. Ben apologizes for everything. "I was selfish. Jealous. You were special, John. And I wasn't." "Ben, if it helps, I forgive you." Ben chooses to stay outside even though everyone else is inside. (A self-imposed penance perhaps?) Ben tells Locke he doesn't need the wheelchair anymore and Locke walks into the church on his own two legs.

More from Luci Chavez on last night's "Lost" finale (read part 1 of recap here):

Juliet, Claire and David (Dylan Minnette) are walking into he concert in WITPDCAR. Juliet has to go back to the hospital, I presume. Charlie is passed out in the green room until the lovely Charlotte wakes him. "I got shot by a fat man." Daniel Farraday/Widmore (Jeremy Davies) is in the green room, too. He and Charlotte meet.

Outside, David and Claire sit at Table 23 with Desmond and Kate. (The producers think they're so cute.) Dr. Chang is emceeing the event. It is his museum after all. Daniel Widmore is going to jam with Drive Shaft while playing classical piano. Highly unlikely in real life because, in my mind, Drive Shaft is basically Oasis but I don't even care because there is Charlie with his bass looking just shy of sober! Yeah!!!!

Here are the really hilarious "alternate endings" to the "Lost" finale as presented last night on Jimmy Kimmel's special "Lost" postmortem (which was so good). Even if you don't watch "Lost," these are fantastic and you'll enjoy them, I promise.

Our "Lost" recapper Luci Chavez on last night's finale. Luci will be
hosting a live chat on the finale today at the News & Observer site
at noon. Please join her! 

I have bogarted other people's DVR's to watch Lost. I have stayed up until 3-4 a.m. after late Duke basketball games to watch Lost.

I have vigilantly avoided nearly all internet speculation about Lost for the past three years. I've put friends under radio silence so as to avoid spoiling one second of the best TV show ever.

Consider what a TV show needs to do to inspire that kind of devotion and
emotion every week.

Now multiply it by 150.

The payoff came Sunday night while watching the 2 1/2-hour series
finale.

The series finale of Lost was grand and epic yet achingly intimate and personal. While Lindelcuse stayed true to the show's "what the hell was that" roots with an ending left open to interpretation, it satisfied me emotionally in every way.

TV Guide has published obituaries for every character who has ever died on "Lost," starting with Boone and ending with Sun and Jin. Good stuff, but I wish they were written in the style of real newspaper obits. You can also chime in with your own condolence wishes.

R.I.P.