Bar Karma (2011)

Genre

science fiction television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 12 episodes

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

People are brought to a mysterious bar that exists between parallel timelines. There they see the consequences of their choices and must decide whether to change their fate.

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What happens

Bar Karma is the first online community-developed network television series. Online users pitch their ideas for scenes and twists online, using a tool designed by Will Wright called the Storymaker. Some are eventually chosen by the production staff, and utilized to create a new episode every week. The main plot revolves around a bar known as "Bar Karma", a bar that resides someplace in between parallel timelines. Up until now, the typical structure of the shows consists of a patron accidentally walking into or being transported to the bar, where they are shown the consequences of their current life actions, and the potential outcomes for their behavior and choices. This, ultimately, leads to a karmic dilemma, and forces the patron to make a life-altering choice. In the first episode, Doug Jones suddenly walks into the bar after a one-night stand. He is confused, and thinks that he accidentally fell asleep and is dreaming. When he finally realizes that this is some strange form of reality, James (Sanderson) and Dayna (Howarth) explain to him why he is in the bar, and is given the chance to alter his fate, and the course of "Bar Karma." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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