47 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestApril, 1936. A significant power failure occurs in New York; a man (Danny) enters his room with food and finds his wife on the settee in the darkness with a hand on her eyes. Danny tells Diane about his day and tells her he will take her to the doctor tomorrow. Diane appears to have psychological problems, as she soon forgets the bellboy was ever in the room and believes Danny has been talking to her in Chinese.
The lives of several people spanning from 1936 to 1993 are chronicled during their overnight stay at a New York City hotel room.
Direction
Lynch makes a hotel room feel like purgatory itself.
Acting
Harry Dean Stanton doing what Harry Dean Stanton does best.
Creators
David Lynch, Monty Montgomery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on HBO but was so poorly promoted that most Lynch fans discovered it decades later.
The hotel room itself was built on a soundstage and designed to feel slightly wrong in every era — Lynch hated how normal hotel rooms looked.
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