The Lost Room & Lost

I like it when people recommend new shows or films to me. Especially stuff that would never have entered my peripheral vision otherwise. The Lost Room is a prime example of this. The effort it was going to take to watch it all already paid off when I realised there was a Fanning sibling in it. Yeah that's right, another one. Who knew? There's also that bloke from Six Feet Under. That show that you never get round to watching. That and The Sopranos. Probably will make some time for The Sopranos though. Anyway, the premise of the show is this; a motel room in the 60's disbanded from reality creating a host of "objects" with special powers. For example a watch that cooks eggs or glasses that prevent combustion. So there's a key to this mysterious room that floats in another dimension or something and the bloke from Six Feet Under has it. He then loses his daughter in it (mini Fanning) and thus proceeds on an epic quest that takes him all over America (well the shit places like New Mexico and Texas) to find objects to rescue his daughter. Of course its all guff, with characters falling over themselves to help the protagonist and handing over helpful tit-bits with little to no coercion. I even thought that characters constantly stating "But its all I have!" when they hand it over would bare some significance at the end but it did not. Still, I sat through the entire four and a half hours in one sitting as it is enthralling and very entertaining. That bloke from Six Feet Under is also very good and likable in it too, I'm sure he was in Six Feet Under as well but I doubt anyone bothered to watch it all. Anyway, definitely worth picking up and proof that the Sci-Fi channel does more than poor quality Bigfoot movies.

Speaking of Lost I've also been watching Lost. Lost, Lost, Lost. Just felt I needed to write it a few more times there. I'm about halfway through season two now. Although I got up to the end of season two when it was first broadcast on Channel 4 however many years ago. I don't think it was that many. But I remember I was single and still living up in the Midlands. So we're talking at least three years ago (just checked on wiki and 2005/2006 is the date). The funny thing is that I can't really remember what happens more the reactions I felt to what happened. Such as the episode where it shows the other survivors first 48 days and I remember how I found the episode pretty boring and annoying. Surprisingly I felt the same second time round. I've also started to get frustrated by the flashbacks to everyone's old lives, I just want to find out about the island stuff now. I couldn't give a shit if your wife left you, even if it does show more about your character's reasoning, etc. I'll keep ploughing through though, safe in the knowledge that I've got three season of unseen surprises to come afterwards.