Review: The Lost Room (SciFi)

[Geophyrd]

Woof...just saw The Lost Room on Sci Fi. I wasn't expected much but boy was I surprised! Great miniseries and I'm hoping its one of those stealth pilots that might lead to a miniseries. If you've read the 2 sentence blurb about the show (everyday objects, fantastics powers!) don't think you've got it. There are complexities underneath the surface of this show and it was very well done. The lead, Peter Krauss, used to be the lead on Six Feet Under. I expected higher profile roles for him after SFU died, and when I saw he signed on for Lost Room, I was disappointed. It sounded boring. It isn't. Its a wild ride and I promise three things. You'll believe that Kevin Pollack can play menacing exceedingly well and Dennis Christopher isn't as cool as you remember him being back in Breaking Away about 100 years ago. The last thing I can promise is that you will dig the show. Its supposedly coming on again in Jan 2007. If you haven't seen it, see it and tell your friends. This is one we want to get behind. Scifi is starting to show up more and more often on my ReplayTV list. Being a huge science fiction fanboy geek, that's probably the way it always ought to have been but for years the channel was showing reruns of The Hulk and and old bad scifi tv. Lately, with BSG, Stargates (all flavors), hopefully soon for Painkiller Jane and Dresden Files, its finally coming into its own. I expect that in 2007, I may be watching it as much as I do HBO and Showtime and I pay for those! Now, if I could just get Scifi to stop showing stuff like Mansquito and the like, I'll be one happy damned camper.

[Wooley]

Didn't see Lost Room but I'd like to see Sci Fi take the money they spend on those sucktacular "Sci Fi Originals" and spend it instead on GOOD stuff, like more original programming, or better quality films, something.

[Adolf Kitler]

I stumbled across "The Lost Room" halfway through the second episode, and fortunately Sci-Fi had a mini marathon to help me catch up to speed. I was very surprised. Unique premise, solid cast, nothing was predictable, and I hate to say it, but I'm hoping that there will be no follow up, because you know it's more than likely that it will not deliver. Series based on movies or mini-series rarely do. Maybe another mini-series would avoid those problems. Anyhoo, if you missed it, I second Geophyrd's recommendation to catch it when they replay it.