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    Room 104 S3E4: “Rogue” Looks at the Gravitation Pull of Family

    This week in S3E4: “Rogue” we get a new-to-Room 104 director in the form of Jenée LaMarque (The Pretty One). The episode was co-written by Jenée and her husband Julian Wass. Julian is a regular guest in Room 104, albeit in the world of sound, having scored most of Season 1 and co-written and directed […] More

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    Room 104 S3E3: “Itchy” Gets Under Your Skin

    Patrick Brice is back for his second turn at directing this season with Room 104 S3E3 “Itchy”, but this time around he’s paired off with his old running buddy Mark Duplass, who wrote this episode. Given that they were responsible for the psychological thriller/horror that was Creep and Creep 2, you’d expect something in that […] More

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    Room 104 S3E2: Animal For Sale

    Following last week’s period horror origin story from Macon Blair, Room 104 S3E2: “Animal For Sale” is one of the lighter, quirkier pieces that pop up on Room 104 sporadically. Everything in Room 104 is about the connections between the people who pass through the room, the meanings they find in each other and in themselves, […] More

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    Room 104 S3E1: The Plot

    Room 104 is like a spider’s web of who’s who in the Duplass Brothers world. If you look carefully enough you’ll find all kinds of connections going back years, but this just seems to be how things are done in the world of Room 104, and Mark Duplass has intimated as much in interviews. They’ll […] More

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    Revolving Doors: Room 104 Returns For a Third Season

    Slipping quietly out into the world in 2017 on HBO, Room 104’s first season got a bit lost between all the Game of Thrones and Westworld fervor that was going on at the time. The half-hour anthology series—birthed from the minds of the Duplass Brothers—takes place in a basic motel room, the titular Room 104. […] More

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    Population: 815 — The Quirky Townspeople of Northern Exposure

    In the first two seasons of Northern Exposure, the quirky supporting cast of characters largely play second-fiddle to the goings on in the doctor’s office. Often, these supporting characters and their pratfalls ended up being more interesting, more endearing, and they definitely help flesh out the general setting of the story, as we learn not […] More

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    Northern Exposure: Welcome to the Alaskan Riviera

     “So we’ve decided to set you up in Cicely, situated in the area we Alaskans refer to as the Alaskan Riviera…” Set in Alaska, but actually filmed not far up the road from where Twin Peaks‘ exterior locations were shot, Northern Exposure was initially often compared to Twin Peaks, arriving a mere three months after […] More