Michael Shannon raps in a Russian accent in the fourth episode of “Room 104” Season 2. There. Now you know it’s coming, and believe me, the Oscar nominee and Chicago bar legend’s skilled rhyming — accompanied by gyrating dancers and a brass marching band — well, it’s worth getting excited about.
These are the miniature delights of Jay and Mark Duplass’ episodic anthology series, which abides by only one rule: Each story takes place in the same dingy motel room. With every half-hour sporting a new cast, story, and creative team, the genre-bending HBO experiment can be any kind of show on any given night. Of course, that also means each installment can be very good or very bad — more so than serialized programs, where odds are if you liked something last week, you’ll like something this week.
For some, the risk vs. reward profile for “Room 104” may prove less...
These are the miniature delights of Jay and Mark Duplass’ episodic anthology series, which abides by only one rule: Each story takes place in the same dingy motel room. With every half-hour sporting a new cast, story, and creative team, the genre-bending HBO experiment can be any kind of show on any given night. Of course, that also means each installment can be very good or very bad — more so than serialized programs, where odds are if you liked something last week, you’ll like something this week.
For some, the risk vs. reward profile for “Room 104” may prove less...
- 11/7/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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