It wouldn't be Christmas without another great DVD of Lost. Not only is Lost one of the best shows on TV, but the DVDs continue to be the benchmark to which all other TV on DVD sets can be compared. If you have season one and season two of Lost, you know how great these sets are.If you don't, start there. Jumping in on the third season of Lost would be like starting with Return of the King. The DVD sets for Lost have some of the best video and audio transfers available and they all come with great special features. Season three let a few Lost fans down when it was on TV with some thinking that the show had jumped the shark. The DVDs, of course, haven't. Commentaries, deleted scenes, original features - it's a Lost DVD. That's all you should need to know.

The 23 episodes from season three are spread out over six discs, which allows a very small amount of picture degradation. The widescreen transfers look amazing and the audio is just as good. Watch just the opening scene of the first episode, "Tale of Two Cities," when Ben and Juliet look up to see the initial crash of Flight 815. If you have the right sound system, you might wake the neighbors. From there, it's actually hard not to get sucked right back into season three, which may have been a little rockier than the first two but was still riveting television, especially without commercials to fast-forward through.

The first special feature on the season three set of Lost are the audio commentaries. There are four audio commentaries on this set including Damon Lindelof and Elizabeth Mitchell on "Tale of Two Cities," Carlton Cuse, Evangeline Lilly, and Josh Holloway on "I Do," writers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz on "Expose," and Lindelof, Cuse, and Michael Emerson on "The Man Behind the Curtain." All are good. None will blow your mind.

The seventh disc of the Lost: Season Three set is split up into four sections, each with their own special features. Fans will flock to 17 minutes of deleted scenes and three never-before-seen Lost flashbacks, but they were all excised for a good reason and do you really want more Nikki and Paolo? The best featurette on the bonus features disc is "Lost in a Day," which covers production on the show over 24 hours. In that time, in Hawaii and Los Angeles, seven episodes are in various stages of production. It's a great mini-documentary for any fan of how TV gets made. "The World of the Others" has been highly promoted and is the first listed on the back of the DVD but falls a little short of being more than a recap of the others we've met to date. "Lost on Location" is a good series of mini-docs about specific episodes that fans of behind-the-scenes footage will find interesting.

As for unusual features, Lost: Season Three certainly has its share. There's a mini-film featuring Terry O'Quinn showing you how to throw a knife, a surprisingly unfunny series of bloopers, and even featurettes about the making of the action figures and the video game associated with Lost (both look very cool). Finally, there's a very interesting featurette about the role literature plays in the show. Have you noticed all the books people are reading on the island? There's a lot of Stephen King. The creators explain why. It's just another element to add to the mythology of Lost, one of the richest, most well-developed shows on television and one of the best series of DVDs yet produced.