I watched the most amazing miniseries called "The Lost Room". The commercials for it had intrigued me, but it was so much better than I could ever have hoped for.

http://tv.blinkx.com/show/the-lost-r...4Hn43Ixt-mXiMr

Don't want to give away the plot, but there are mundane items from this mysterious room that possess powers. And combining different items makes different powers. They physics of these powers are much more coherent and relevant to the plot than in Heroes.

It's a great story. I really hope they make this a regular series, but I haven't heard of any plans to do that.