{"id":151840,"date":"2020-09-04T23:30:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=151840"},"modified":"2023-05-12T17:32:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:32:33","slug":"room-104-s4e7-youll-never-see-me-at-a-foam-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2020\/09\/04\/room-104-s4e7-youll-never-see-me-at-a-foam-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Room 104 S4E7 Recap and Analysis: You’ll Never See Me At a “Foam Party”"},"content":{"rendered":"
Room 104<\/em> S4E7 \u201cFoam Party\u201d (written by Bryan Poyser and directed by Natalie Morales) is like one of those horror movies you might have seen in the 1990s: the premise is absurd (by which I mean far-fetched, or outlandish), and so is its logic (which I ultimately don\u2019t think is consistent—how does the foam function exactly?). I have to surmise that this is intentional. After all, we have seen Room 104<\/em> play with genre any number of times over the course of its run, and just two episodes ago got Room 104<\/em> the sitcom with \u201cOh, Harry!<\/a>\u201d—which also played with tropes from the \u201890s.<\/p>\n Indeed, something about the 1990s seems to be baked into Room 104<\/em> Season 4, from the nostalgia for \u201890s music expressed through \u201cThe Murderer<\/a>\u201d to the vibe of \u201cFoam Party\u201d here (and the fact that actual foam parties were a phenomenon that arose in the 1990s—did you know these were a real thing?<\/a>)<\/p>\n Room 104<\/em> S4E7 also carries forward the thread of this season in relation to questions of personal identity. Jack (Benjamin Papac) is ultimately revealed to be one with the foam in some way at the end of the episode, and its horror proceeds through his friends variously taking on his visage as the foam moves to overtake them. One by one, this occurs to Luke (Harvey Guill\u00e9n), Jenna (Olivia Crocicchia), Hunter (Timothy Granaderos), and Morgan (Alison Jaye) until by the end of \u201cFoam Party\u201d they are dead, having been consumed by the ever-expanding foam.<\/p>\n Jack, for his part, doesn\u2019t seem to know what has happened. As he holds Morgan\u2019s damaged ID he doesn\u2019t seem to remember the events of the previous evening, which culminated in him wrestling with the force of the evil foam before it swirled itself into him. And this tracks with the way we learn towards the beginning of S4E7 that he has only been friends\/roommates with the others for a short period of time. The inference is that this has all happened before. But Jack doesn\u2019t know it. He\u2019s a vessel for malicious foam.<\/p>\n