It’s no secret that I love cross-pollination of my favorite TV shows.

And my love for Lost has no boundaries.

Add Deadwood, the best show ever taken off the air too soon to the mix and I just might keel over with joy. John Hawkes, who played Sol Starr on HBO’s Western drama, is joining Lost for its swan season. The Hollywood Reporter said casting breakdowns of “Lennon,” the character Hawkes will play, described him thusly:

Lennon is the scruffy, edgy and charismatic spokesperson and translator for the president of a foreign corporation who is far more powerful than it seems from his position.

I wonder if he works for Sun’s father’s company? What other foreign corporation has been prominent on the show? Would they add another major player in this late in the game? Entirely possible, but I’d imagine this seems more likely. If you can’t quite remember who Sol Starr was, I’m sure you’ll remember his partner, Seth Bullock, played with a quiet intensity by Timothy Olyphant who has become quite the sensation.

But Hawkes was excellent as Starr, the Jewish businessman who became mayor of the South Dakota frontier town. My only regret is that we didn’t get another season of the show, which was one of the best shows ever aired. Ever.

EVER.

Glad we’re getting to see more of Hawkes, though. We got treated to more of him in the first season of HBO’s Eastbound and Down, and he looked and acted so different that I didn’t even realize he was Kenny Powers brother.