Souls face surreal games in a mysterious bar, deciding their ultimate fate with darkly comic and suspenseful stakes.
Melancholy. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
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Some innuendo or implied sex and strong violence, about what a TV-MA should carry.
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There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too.
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
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