How far are you willing to go to get what you want most?
Under this question we present the miniseries The Booth at the End, a production of the American network FX broadcast exclusively via the web. A small masterpiece that goes very unnoticed due to its lack of publicity and distribution, but that represents quite a hit on the table due to the brilliance of its script and the simplicity of its staging, where it is shown that a great idea weighs more than a wad of bills.
The Booth at the End presents us with a mysterious man sitting at a table in a typical American town cafeteria, writing in a notebook. That’s where all the action and all the suspense takes place, in the conversations between that man and the other characters who sit down to talk to him. They come with the objective of achieving what they want most: curing a husband’s Alzheimer’s, getting the love of a model, ending a father’s financial problems. To achieve it they will have to do what the man orders them. If they fulfill it, they will get it.
The limits of consciousness are drastically brought into relief, since the tasks to be performed are not always within morality or even legality. Search within yourself to see if you have the strength to kill a random girl or the guts to challenge the deepest foundations of your religious beliefs. The Booth at the End is death, joy, tension, morality, action, challenge, self-improvement. All concentrated on the simple but profound conversations at a bar table, almost paying homage to Quentin Tarantino’s wonderful debut, Reservoir Dogs (1992).
The miniseries was broadcast in August 2010, having started a second season this same August 2012. It is “officially” composed of 62 chapters of two or three minutes in length and, despite being free, it cannot be accessed outside the United States. It can be found, not without some difficulty, in the depths of the Internet, divided for greater convenience into ten chapters of ten minutes each, or five of twenty. If you have access to a US IP, you will be able to find it on Hulu without any problems.
A little gem whose script will make you rethink the foundations of your own morality.