Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Maven Maven SPOILER ALERTEach episode is maybe 3 minutes long then the credits roll and the logos are displayed. After that the next episode comes up.Imagine a bunch of adults meeting Santa Clause in a diner to make their wish except this Santa is evil and requires something for whatever he will grant you. So episode after episode you get people making wishes and then reporting back on their progress. I mean over and over with people whining and nothing happening. The narrative stays in one place there is no development there is no motion forward.At the end of a half hour of episode one, I was exactly where I was at the beginning of episode one: nowhere.

Chuck Walters Lousy sound, plain and clumsy cinematography, truly awful Tarantino-inspired title cards (and by awful I mean an ugly typeface kerned so poorly that a 19 year old graphic design student does better work with a typeface), boring lighting and a location that is so...meh.That's the (lack of) production value and it could be forgiven if this show were well written. It's not. It is haphazard storytelling pretending to be high brow and important. The acting is awful. Even Xander Berkeley, who is normally wonderful, is nothing more than an eclectic collection of facial expressions. He isn't playing a character and it is clear he doesn't know what he's doing anymore than the rest of this sad cast. You can almost hear the director in the background yelling "Okay, now do this line ANGRY. No, be SAD. Now try it again and be CONFUSED." Nothing is emotionally coherent.Your time is better spent scrubbing a toilet with a toothbrush than watching this terrible, terrible show.

Ticky 88 It happens once in a year for me, I think. To stumble upon something that I know I will cherish for as long as I am capable of memories."The Booth at the End" is a thought-provoking, unbelievably engaging, and convincingly performed series of short episodes, all filmed at a booth in a diner. I read in one of the comments how the person thought this setting could never achieve the level of engagement it did, but was (fortunately!) mistaken. This might be the first science-fiction film/series in which I truly did not want to find out the 'secret' behind the story. It is an allegory of life, of flawed human nature, but also of occasional glimpses at divinity in ourselves, and it is as such that it ought to remain. Honestly a wonderful piece, both with respect to writing and production.Also, I would like to commend Xander Berkeley for his brilliant performance. So heartfelt, on the verge between reality and fantasy, hell and heaven.I do hope I will have the opportunity to come across more projects of this kind in the future.

telcomps I was a bit apprehensive before watching this; I'm not a fan of watching TV on the web so I waited for the entire set of 'webisodes' to be broadcast on FX. I must say I have been rewarded with one of the most thought provoking and challenging TV programmes in quite some time. Xander Berkeley has been perfectly cast as 'The Man' his performance is truly exceptional as are all the supporting actors. I had assumed that part of the script had been improvised due to the naturalistic way the performances are delivered, I am assured that this is not the case. There is no action as all the 'tasks' are only spoken of in retrospect or the moral challenge the person asking faces. Is 'The Man' God or is he the Devil ? As the series progresses you flip between one or the other. A series that is well worth watching and hopefully we will get a series 2; however, the moral of this story is : be careful what you wish for...