The Booth at the End (2010)

Directed by

Jessica Landaw

Genre

drama television series, fantasy television series

Country

United States, Canada

Length

2 seasons, 10 episodes

Rating

7.7 of 10 from 70 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Strangers meet a mysterious man in a diner booth who offers to grant their deepest wishes. In exchange, he assigns each person a task to carry out. The story unfolds entirely through these conversations, revealing what people will do to get what they want.

mysterioustensecerebralslow-burnclaustrophobicunsettlingphilosophicalconversation-driven

What happens

The Booth at the End is a psychological thriller series created by Christopher Kubasik and starring Xander Berkeley, and was produced by Vuguru. The series premiered on August 27, 2010 on the Canadian network City. Two seasons were produced, each consisting of five 23-minute episodes. The first season was directed by Jessica Landaw, and the second by Adam Arkin. The series follows the fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each enter into a Faustian pact with a mysterious figure, the Man (Berkeley), whom they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them – hence the series tagline, "How far would you go to get what you want?" The series is notable for its mise-en-scene, in which the dramatic action is entirely conveyed through a series of conversations between the Man and his clients, which all take place in the eponymous "booth at the end" of an archetypal American diner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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