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Harold Perrineau’s Death Wasn’t Unusual

Posted by lostfan

June 3, 2008 |

Harold PerrineauIn a recent article and interview in Entertainment Weekly, Harold Perrineau (Michael), spoke candidly about his death on Lost. In the interview, he says he is not bitter but he does explain his disappointment in the choice of the writers in killing Michael off. I also comments on the reality that because of his character’s death, “winds up being another fatherless child, [and] it plays into a really big, weird stereotype.”

Perrineau is of course referring to the stereo type of  a black father abandoning a black son.  Personally, I don’t think that was the case at all.  Lost has always been about choices and consequences / debt and redemption.  In Michael’s case, he made choices and had to face the redemptive consequences. To suggest a racial motive in the choice to sacrifice the character is misguided in my opinion.

In a related note, in the Entertainment Weekly interview, Perrineau says that he will reinvent himself and move on.  It would seem that he already has to a point.  He has landed a role in a new ABC project entitled “The Unusuals”.  “The Unusuals” will be a dramedy about a cop is fanatically concerned about his death and is easily agitated.  It sounds a bit like “Cops” and “Monk” combined.

It is a bit ironic that Michael never saw death coming, but his new character Detective Leo Banks thinks death is around every corner. None the less, I wish Harold Perrineau good luck in his new show.


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