The Booth at the End

The Booth At The End is a 2010 fantasy drama series created by Christopher Kubasik and starring Xander Berkeley, which was originally produced for the US cable channel FX. Seasonbegan on August 27, 2010 on the Canadian network City. As of summer 2015, the series has had two seasons, each consisting oftwentythreeminute episodes. The first season was directed by Jessica Landaw, and the second by Adam Arkin who also coproduced.

In the first episode, we meet the Man Berkeley, an anonymous, morally ambiguous agent who habitually occupies the booth at the end in a classic 1950sstyle diner in an unnamed city a fictional version of Los Angeles. In each episode, a character enters the diner, and after giving a passphrase, they beg the Man to grant them a wish, typically something of a lifechanging or redemptive character. The Man consults a large book, in which he occasionally makes notes, and which evidently provides both the nature of his clientss tasks, and the progress they make towards its completion, after which their wish will be granted.The clients tasks range from the mundane to the monstrous in one case, an elderly woman begs the Man to restore the mental clarity of her ailing husband, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimers, but in return, he orders her to construct a bomb and detonate it in a crowded family restaurant. The characters report back on their progress to the Man, who evidently knows if they are lying to him, and they bargain with him as they become increasingly desperate. These exchanges take place entirely in the diner. The Book used by the Man emerges as a character in its own right, as does the waitress in the first season, whose character develops significantly in the second series. The various fates of the clients at first seem to be unconnected, but as the series progress we discover that, either because of the Mans special knowledge, or through his actions, their fates become interwoven. ........

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