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    Inside Room 104: An Interview With Sydney Fleischmann

    Room 104 just finished up its third season run on HBO; a season that stretched the boundaries of the premise a little more, and got a little bit more experimental generally. Sydney Fleischmann is a film and television producer who’s worked closely with the Duplass Brothers for several years. Having been involved in films such […] More

  • Louis and older Jean sit facing each other on the Room 104 beds.
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    Room 104 S3E11: The “Crossroads” Deal of a Lifetime

    This week’s Room 104 S3E11: “Crossroads” is from the tag team of director Patrick Brice and writer Sam Bain. Mr. Brice is basically an honorary Duplass Brother at this point, it being his third turn in the director’s chair this season alone. Sam Bain, who started out co-writing Peep Show with Jesse Armstrong ( and […] More

  • Craig (Arturo Castro) sits on the bed of Room 104 in a towel looking intently at his iPad
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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

  • Allan presses himself against the bathroom door in Room 104 S3E2
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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

  • Roma and Remus sit across the campfire from each other smiling and holding jars for glasses
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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