I just watched this show today, and I watched all of the episodes in a row! I couldn't pull myself away from it! It was amazing! The first great sci-fI show I've seen in a while. Please renew this show for season 2! Add new charcacters, and bring back a few of the old ones. It will be awesome. And with the rise of SCP Containment Breach fans, this show will become an instant hit. (Scp is a fictional organization that captures and contains anomalous objects. It has its own wiki with over 3,000 anomalous objects.) The objects in this show are just like SCP objects, which is awesome! So please bring this show back! Thanks for reading! Great show!

Peter Krause, Julianna Margulies, Peter Jacobson, Elle Fanning, Margaret Cho, Harriet Samson Harris, Dennis Christopher, Kevin Pollak, and Roger Bart are featured in this 2008 sci-fi miniseries.Krause plays Detective Joe Miller, who, during a murder case, comes across a motel key. When he opens the room, it turns out to be a portal to another dimension or alternate universe. If he puts something in the room and leaves, when he returns, the room has "reset" and the item is gone. His daughter goes into the room and disappears,as the room resets because she, the occupant, does not have the key. Joe is desperate to find her and goes into a full investigation of the room and anyone involved with it.He learns that there are special objects that did not look special that have special powers. It could be anything, combs, pens, cards, bus tickets, watches -- each can do something, for instance, quickly get you to another place, stop time, put people to sleep, open doors. And in combination, they can do even more. There are over 100 of them, and everyone is after them, particularly one man (Kevin Pollak) who will do anything to get them.I'm usually not one for science fiction, but this was an intriguing premise and it was well done. Peter Krause and Julianna Margulies turn in wonderful performances, as do Roger Jacobson and Kevin Pollak. I looked at some reviews and it appears this was supposed to be a series. I guess nothing happened with it. It's a shame as it was very good and certainly had potential to continue.

This review has heavy spoilers for the whole story. Do not read if you haven't seen the whole show.I really liked the original concept behind this show. A room where "something happened" that created objects with different supernatural uses was great and for the most part I liked how the story was told, with the main character wanting to get his daughter back and the whole factions and groups that formed around the objects.But sadly it ended up being yet another example of writers that came up with a great idea but had no idea how to end it and how to give a logical answer to all the interesting mysteries they came up with. By the end most of it doesn't make sense anymore and the answer to most of the big mysteries ends up being "because the writers say so".One of the biggest mysteries of the whole show is what happened in the room, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who was intrigued with this and was expecting an answer. And when the times came for the big reveal the dialog went something like:"Did you create the objects? What happened in this room?" "No I didn't create them. It just happened".Turns out the writers had no idea how to finish their own story so they just went with "it just happened". And that's far from being the only question left unanswered, by the final chapter there are a ton of events that are never really explained. - Why would recreating the experiments of the collectors revive people? - What was the logic behind the daughter of the main character being trapped in "one of many rooms? - How did the main character recover his daughter by becoming an object? - ETCA part of me feels this show was left unfinished. A lot of the events from the final episode pointed towards a second seasons that never got released

You may recognize (if you are an ancient computer nerd like me - or you like computer game trivia) the first line of one of the first computer text "adventure" games (technically called "Colossal Cave Adventure" http://jerz.setonhill.edu/if/canon/Adventure.htm ). I found this mini-series a bit like one of those games, where the protagonist Joe Miller discovers the "magical" properties of objects and novel ways to use them partly by trial and error (getting slammed from the sky in Gallup NM a bunch of times) or by his own cleverness. I appreciated the fact that this series was more cerebral than a lot of the shoot-em-up scifi genre ("space opera" based).Unlike some other reviews I thought this series was perfectly written, executed, and wrapped-up - with Joe's story basically finished, but the "door left open" (literally) for future story-lines.Another great thing about this series concept, like Stargate or others, is that the premise allows for the story to wander into many wild new environs and circumstances since the objects are so varied in type and usage. So writing opportunities for this series are endless - and I hope we have not seen the end.I might have liked to see more of the various "Cabals" and their philosophies and rituals explored - as that seems to mostly have occurred in the blog-o-sphere.SciFy - bring back "The Lost Room" !!