Anybody catching this on Hulu? Basic premise: People meet with a man (played by Xander Berkley) in a diner and ask him for something: From the material to the extensional or metaphysical. In return he assigns them a task to complete. The task itself could be something fairly innocuous or it could be something sinister. They complete the task and they get what they ask for.
I can't quite put my finger on why I'm digging it (maybe it's the minimalist, one set, dialog focused story) but I am. Xander Berkley's performance as The Man intrigues me the most. One moment he's this sly, manipulative Faustian puppet master and the next he comes off as some sort of beleaguered bureaucrat and his trade is akin to selling insurance or handling a loan application and then he's this distant figure offering moral enlightenment. I can't really do it justice but the nuance in his performance hooked me and I'm interested to see where this all leads.
