The sci fi channel's original 3 part miniseries 'Lost Room' is fantastic - somehow they've taken a ludicrous premise and turned it into compelling television. The show really shouldn't work, but it is the most original sci fi outing I've seen in recent memory.

Here are some critics views reproduced at Slate.

The Lost Room (Sci Fi Channel). A miniseries about the mysterious powers of seemingly innocuous talismans—a deck of cards, a plastic comb—and the disappearance of a Pittsburgh detective's daughter has critics enthralled. "The tale's beyond complicated, to be sure. But it also may be the most watchable six hours of strangeness you'll see this season," opines the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In the New York Times, Virginia Heffernan raves about actor Peter Krause's performance: "There's something distinctly literary and timeless in his own intrinsic religiosity and muted melancholy." And the New York Post calls The Lost Room, which also stars Julianna Margulies, Margaret Cho, and Elle Fanning as Krause's daughter, "one of the most perfectly cast miniseries in recent history." The Los Angeles Times quibbles that the miniseries sometimes wanders and takes liberties with the laws of physics, but concludes, "[T]aken simply as a thing to watch, it's fucking awesome."

Metacritic shows that it has divided others though - which is obviously a good thing. :P

http://www.metacritic.com/tv/shows/lostroom [1]

Here's a list of views.

80
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
A terrific, six-hour miniseries, beautifully written and sharply directed.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
As much fun as the adventure is, the central mystery — what happened in that motel on that May date that created such cosmic blowback — is never truly explained.
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75
New York Daily News David Bianculli
A very complex metaphysical mystery, the enjoyment of which comes, in no small part, from the surprises that spill out as it slowly unfurls.
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75
New York Post Linda Stasi
Bizarrely complicated and intriguing.
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70
Variety
Strange and clever, "The Lost Room" is full of winding corridors, peculiar twists and wry, oddball humor, set against a mystery that recalls TV's better Stephen King productions.
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60
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
The tale's beyond complicated, to be sure. But it also may be the most watchable six hours of strangeness you'll see this season.
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60
The New York Times Virginia Heffernan
A quest romance in which Middle Earth is essentially Route 66, that national treasure, and some of its burned-out byways.
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60
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
A long ride to nowhere but with some nice scenery and exciting turns along the way.
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60
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"The Lost Room" is certainly a more creative exercise than past Sci Fi miniseries (including "The Triangle"), but it sometimes feels rushed.
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60
Newsday Verne Gay
"Lost Room" is a shaggy dog story that gets shaggier with every scene. It's a tale as tall as the Empire State Building that threatens to topple in the merest breeze but - miraculously - never does.
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60
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Maybe the best thing about this miniseries is the weird assortment of characters.
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60
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
It's a supernatural mystery, involving a few ghosts, a little time travel and lots of crazy people. People who have been missing The X-Files might really go for The Lost Room.
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40
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
Enjoyment turns to exasperation as the tone wobbles from horror to crime drama to fantasy to comedy.
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40
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
A tonally mixed-up disappointment.
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20
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
While it's not totally painful, it's so hopelessly incoherent that you'll probably get a headache or two if you actually stick with it for the full three days and six hours.
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20
TV Guide Matt Roush
An especially silly descent into incoherence.
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