HBO's Room 104 (created by The Duplass Brothers)

[neorev]

ROOM 104

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d5/Room_104_teaser.png

One room, infinite possibilities.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zudxg4qHRZQ

Fascinated by what really happens at that corporate chain hotel near the airport -- from the funny and weird to the scary and absurd -- creators Mark and Jay Duplass ("Togetherness," "Animals") check into "Room 104." The anthology series is set at an average American motel and tells stories rangingfrom comedies to dramas to horrors, with the tone, the characters and the era changing every time. Each episode plays like a mini-movie, offering a new discovery from one week to the next. Ultimately, "Room 104" is about "finding some magic in the seemingly mundane," the Duplass brothers say.

http://www.hbo.com/room-104

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[neorev]

After seeing the first episode, I HAD to make a thread for this series. The first episode is definitely not what I expected from them. It was really good. I don't wanna give anything away because I watched it without any idea what it's about. Holy cow, did it throw a curveball. You just have to watch it.

[neorev]

Is no one seriously watching this?

I thought the fourth episode was quite powerful and emotional. It's pretty crazy how each episode can completely flip the premise.

[theimage13]

Never heard of it (don't have cable and have literally never seen a single friend post about it on social media). But given that I sometimes spend ~200 nights a year in hotels, I'm definitely checking this out.

Related story: in one recent hotel, I found (as I often do) that the ethernet port wasn't actually active. I have a tendency to get straight answers from CSRs because I do some IT work myself and know more than the average family just crashing for a night and looking for wifi. So I asked about this one, and they said that there's only one room in the entire hotel with an activated ethernet port, and the room is reserved for guests booking on a government account.

Interesting if true.