Anthology series! They're all the rage, right? So, here's one from HBO that isn't even an "every season is different" type of show, but rather an "every week is different" show. It's set in a hotel room and every week features a different person or couple staying in the room. (Yes, it had, weirdly, the exact same premise as the TBS show The Guest Book and they debuted within a week of one another. But this one's a highfalutin theater thing, telling a bunch of little one act plays. Two or three of them were straight up horror stories. One was a 25-minute dance performance. One had an all-too-relatable college student in the '90s trying to walk his mother through the harrowing process of saving his work on his computer over the phone. One was a weird pizza guy porn thing gone awry. One featured a terrorist preparing to go to the RNC (or DNC?) with a homemade bomb only to be thwarted by a conversational repairman. There were weeks where I really enjoyed the show, and weeks where it was completely forgettable and disposable. In that sense it felt a lot like a lesser Black Mirror. But it ended with a good run, I thought, and I see no reason why i won't be back for more next year. So, good on Room 104.
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