When my best friend told me to watch this, I said - grudgingly - "I'll give it one episode." He asked to PLEASE watch 2. Grumble, grumble, grumble. (I'm old: I'm ALLOWED to grumble. You aren't. Not unless you're closing in on 70, too.) Well, the first episode caught me within 10 minutes: a group of boys playing the equivalent of Dungeons and Dragons. They go home, and one boy disappears. Not so unusual so far. But then, it switches to a government lab (natch: located only a couple of miles from the town) and a scientist is running for his life. But who - or what - is he running from? Winona Ryder - barely recognizable - is the mother of two boys, one of whom is part of a group of the 4 boys who are drawn into this mystery when someone shows up at their door. If you want to know more - WATCH IT YOURSELF! The storyline expands so smoothly, the episode is over before you know it. Thats due to excellent - and unforced - scriptwriting that pulls you along. Ryder's unhinged (she was a mental case, as they say, at one point) persona is contrasted by the innocence and completely goodhearted quartet of boys - PLUS ONE. The town sheriff is actually a smart guy, instead of the stereotype of the dumb hick sheriff one frequently sees. And of course, there's the Big, Bad Government who will stop at nothing to locate the "PLUS ONE." Just watch it. You will either love it (meaning, if you like good science fiction, it'll grab ya) or you won't, which means you've been watching CW so much, you think that shows like....well, nearly anything on that network, are actually good scriptwriting. Pity if you do. I watched the first two episodes and it's fair to say that, by the time I'd ended the first episode, I thought, "Well, I can bear to watch the second episode." And that was my last conscious thought until I found myself bearing down on the end of episode 8. And then it was over and I found myself annoyed because there were no more episodes.