The conceit of Mark and Jay Duplass's new HBO anthology series, Room 104, is simple: each episode takes place in the same hotel room. But beyond that, everything from the characters to the genre of each episode will be different, as much influenced by the writers as they are by the directors behind the helm.
Room 104 has been compared to Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, but its execution hews closer to the world of independent film. Though the Duplass brothers created the series, they tapped directors to helm each episode who they trusted to bring their own creative vision, and didn't force the interpretations of the script to fit any rule beyond the fact that the stories had to be set entirely in that one hotel room.
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Room 104 has been compared to Black Mirror and The Twilight Zone, but its execution hews closer to the world of independent film. Though the Duplass brothers created the series, they tapped directors to helm each episode who they trusted to bring their own creative vision, and didn't force the interpretations of the script to fit any rule beyond the fact that the stories had to be set entirely in that one hotel room.
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