A. Cavill

The Lost Room

We are watching, and loving, The Lost Room,

http://www.scifi.com/lostroom/

Starring three-time Emmy nominee, Peter Krause (Our dearly, dearly beloved Nate Fisher in the genius show, Six Feet Under)

He plays police detective Joe Miller, a guy whose first priority is his young daughter. During a creepy homicide investigation, Joe obtains a key.

Let’s go back a fifty years or so.

During the glorious 50′s something really bad happened in room 10 at the Sunshine Motel. Whatever it was that happened it was bad enough that somehow the room and various mundane objects in the room have taken on strange powers. These ‘objects’ from the room have been circulating the world ever since. Since they have strange powers, they are desirable. A number of groups obsessed with collecting the ‘objects’ emerge, all with their own agendas and what do you know, Joe has got one of the most desirable ‘objects” of all, the key to room 10. This makes Joe a very wanted man.

When Joe’s daughter disappears because of the room, he gets caught up in a bizarre and desperate quest to bring her back. On his journey he meets a host of twisted characters, all of them distorted by the power of the ‘objects’ they possess so that no one is exactly as they seem.

What is gratifying about The Lost Room, is that it’s got enough going on that you cannot second guess it. It has the golden haze of The Shining, the creepy object obsession of Gollum, the motel madness of Psycho, add a heavy glug of Twilight Zone, mount the whole thing above Neverwhere, and then flash over to the creepy farmland of Westfall in WoW and you have it.

Peter Krause has this look, this smile in his eyes when he is angry. He would make a brilliant Constantine, They should have cast him in Silent Hill, and call it loyalty to our mate Nate, but I really want to see his star rise.

For his love interest he gets the dark beauty Julianna Margulies, elegant and substantial, an actress that understands her job in this world is not to stand around looking pretty, Margulies has the awesome presence of a really expensive and glossy horse. I know it’s a weird comparison, but honest to God, she’s powerful and she has a chestnut mane.

Anyway, it’s well acted, and very comic book feeling, which is always a good sign. I know I am being very positive about The Lost Room, but c’mon, I was so Scroogey about the crappy Macy’s Day Parade and idiot conceived shmultzy Christmas windows and my next post is about stupid small breed dogs and how they should be banned from pavements (and breeding) I thought I would write a nice post in praise of the Sci-Fi Channel, Peter Krause and weird objects.

The other thing that is great about this show is that it gets right under your skin, in the way that some of the dream sequences did in Six Feet Under so we both had nightmares last night, which is always a bonus.