On paper, Room 104 sounds like it might be quite good, even if it is set in just one hotel room. It’s by the Duplass Brothers (Togetherness) and it’s on HBO. It’s an anthology series set in a hotel room. It’s got the likes of James Van Der Beek, Amy Landecker and Orlando Jones in the cast.
Yet watching the trailer, I just thought, “Huh.” How about you guys? Does this rock your boat? (If it does, BTW, it starts July 28)
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
