So, here we are already. The Season 3 finale of Room 104: “The Specimen Collector” is upon us, and unlike the darker more disturbing tale we were left with at the end of Season 2 (“Josie & Me”) Room 104 S3E12 is a much lighter, more wondrous piece that looks at both the tenacity of […] More
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
Julian Wass’s old-school hammy horror tweaks to the theme music gives us an aural clue as to what’s in store this week in Room 104 S3E10: “Night Shift”. This would have been the perfect Halloween week episode, but alas, it was not to be and instead we got the far more dramatic and subtle tones […] More
Room 104 S3E9 “Prank Call” is the third Mark Duplass-penned episode that So Yong Kim has directed, following Season 1’s “I Knew You Weren’t Dead” and Season 2’s “The Return”. Both previous episodes focused on dealing with grief and the absence of a loved one, but this tale is more concerned with the emptiness we […] More
A definite change of pace this week, as Room 104 S3E8 “No Hospital” takes us back to a more traditional story-driven premise after the previous two Duplass-driven episodes: “A New Song” and “Jimmy & Gianni“. Written and directed by Miguel Arteta, lately of the Ali Shawkat-starring Duck Butter (also a Duplass Brothers Production), this episode, […] More
Doug Emmett cuts his directorial teeth in Room 104 S3E7 this week. Previously to this Emmett has a busy bio as a cinematographer or director of photography. Is there a difference between the two? I’m not sure. Outraged film students can let me know in the comments. Having worked with Duplass Brothers Productions before on […] More
Halfway through the season now, and while the title of Room 104 S3E6: “A New Song” very simply and succinctly outlines the basic plot driver, it in no way encompasses the emotional depth and complexity of this story. Before I get into it, I’ll just say that I’ve watched this episode four times now and […] More
This week’s Room 104, “Drywall Guys” (S3E5) is probably the most light-hearted episode so far in this season. It was written by Mark Duplass and directed by Shira Piven who has previously directed the wonderfully quirky, yet absorbing Welcome to Me, a film which relied heavily (and successfully) on the central performance of Kristen Wiig. […] More
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
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
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
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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