I'm amazed
Sci-Fi managed to make a good show. I finally watched The Lost Room which is an amazing mini-series that makes a unique and original modern occult setting and populates it with realistic characters and conspiracies. It's one of the best shows I've seen recently and the fact that it ended with a mini-series means the main plot gets resolved and they don't drag the concept down with more episodes. The premise is simple enough there is a room where something happened, nobody is quite sure what, and it changed. Everyday objects that were taken from the room gained unnatural powers ranging from a watch that can boil eggs to the key that allows the holder to use the now vanished room as a waypoint to step between almost any door in the world. A cop, our hero, gets involved by accidentally finding the key which unlocks his entry into a seedy underworld of losers, religious fanatics, and criminals who pursue the power the objects hold with an obsessive fervor.
There are loose ends that could have been cleared up, and a deeper look into the cosmology of the world would have been very interesting, but those were left open in the event that Sci-Fi planned to make it a regular series. The only weak points were the tacked on love interest, which was done poorly and didn't flow from the plot very well at all, and the aforementioned dangling secondary plotlines.
There's some damn fine acting, especially by Kevin Pollack whose role as a wealthy pawn shop owner who collects objects and whose wealth and object collection make him seem something like a mob boss.
I sincerely recommend the series for anyone who's enjoys modern occult stories, or a strongly plotted noir-esque land of betrayal, power, and danger.
There are loose ends that could have been cleared up, and a deeper look into the cosmology of the world would have been very interesting, but those were left open in the event that Sci-Fi planned to make it a regular series. The only weak points were the tacked on love interest, which was done poorly and didn't flow from the plot very well at all, and the aforementioned dangling secondary plotlines.
There's some damn fine acting, especially by Kevin Pollack whose role as a wealthy pawn shop owner who collects objects and whose wealth and object collection make him seem something like a mob boss.
I sincerely recommend the series for anyone who's enjoys modern occult stories, or a strongly plotted noir-esque land of betrayal, power, and danger.