For our Christmas night treat we watched the last installment of The Lost Room, a six-hour three-part miniseries which debuted on the SciFi channel earlier this month.  Highly recommended!

The premise: an unknown supernatural event occurred in a motel room in New Mexico in 1961, tearing at the fabric of reality and giving all the mundane Objects collected in the room at the time special powers.  For instance, the Key appears to be an ordinary motel room key, but has the extraordinary the power to open any door with a keyhole, and by passing through a door thus opened, you end up directly in room #10, which no longer resides next to rooom #9 but in alternate reality of some sort.  When you leave the room, you emerge from any door in the world that you choose.  A handy way to travel!

Such Objects have different powers - some subtle and often undiscovered, others dangerous or deadly, and yet others quite silly.  The power of these strange Objects has spawned collectors, brokers and economies, secret societies of the good, evil, and simply misguided types - all searching, and sometimes killing, for the powers the Objects bring, and their beliefs about the transcendent reality they imply.

Detective Joe Miller stumbles across the key during an unearthly murder investigation, and plunges into the underground society of those aware of the Objects, meeting a whole cast of unique and intriguing characters and having a constant set of adventures along the way.

I don’t see a repeat coming up soon on the SciFi channel, but there are versions floating around in BitTorrent (I devoted a few nights of Internet bandwidth to downloading the last episode which didn’t record directly.)

Two enthusiastic thumbs up from me!  Catch it if you can!