TIME TO GET "LOST"

If Lost lost you somewhere along the way, here's how you and the show can find each other again.

Before ABC starts the sixth (and final) season on Feb. 2, catch up to everything that's happened with the castaways, the island, the Dharma Initiative, the Oceanic Six, and more of the series' sometimes inpenetrable mythology.

A couple of new ways to do that: free iTunes downloads and weekly DirecTV recap specials.

Over at iTunes, you can now score free downloads of 2004's two-part series pilot -- basically a movie in itself, which wowed both viewers and critics -- as well as the yearly recap specials broadcast by ABC to bring us up to date just before each new season started. That's five free hours to help figure out what the bleep is going on with the action.

If you're a DirecTV subscriber, you can watch those five recap hours on The 101. The first aired last Saturday at 9 p.m. ET, the same slot in which succeeding seasons' will unreel weekly.

And then there's ABC's sixth-season teaser at the network's Lost page, which also offers streams of the 10 most recent episodes (aired last spring) and earlier seasons, too.

Finally, of course, you can buy all five seasons so far on DVD and Blu-ray.