COLLECTION · Series · 2011

Bar Karma

Name: Bar Karma
Genre: Drama
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 3.8

Bar Karma is the first online community-developed network television series. Online users pitch their own ideas for scenes and twists online, using a tool designed by Will Wright called the Storymaker. Some are eventually chosen by the production staff, and are utilized to help create a new episode every week. The main plot revolves around a bar known as "Bar Karma", a bar that resides someplace in between parallel timelines. Up until now, the typical structure of the shows consists of a patron accidentally walking into or being transported to the bar, where they are shown the consequences of their current life actions, and the potential outcomes for their behavior and choices. This, ultimately, leads to a karmic dilemma, and forces the patron to make a life-altering choice. In the first episode, Doug Jones suddenly walks into the bar after a one-night stand. He is confused, and thinks that he accidentally fell asleep and is dreaming. When he finally realizes that this is some strange form of reality, James and Dayna explain to him why he is in the bar, and is given the chance to alter his fate, and the course of "Bar Karma."

Source: TMDB

* 3.8 (5)Drama

Creators

Will Wright · Albie Hecht

Studios

Current TV

Runtime

22–30 min/ep

Release

11/02/2011

Score

3.8 / 10 (5)

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Seasons and episodes

Season 1

12 episodes · 2011

Episode 1. A Guy Walks Into the Bar

2011-02-11

A billionaire internet mogul gets a chance to change his life

Episode 2. Once Upon a Timeline

2011-02-18

A writer arrives and learns his latest work will inspire an act of terrorism.

Episode 3. An Open Mind

2011-02-25

A hospital patient is summoned during a surgical procedure.

Episode 4. Double Blind

2011-03-04

In 2017, a beautiful Brazilian woman arrives at Bar Karma with a mysterious device...but when it's destroyed, it could mean the difference between life and death

Episode 5. Fair Catch

2011-03-11

Dayna summons a '60s football player to Bar Karma who is torn between two women, but when Doug tries to help, he lands in dangerous territory -- the cheerleaders' locker room.

Episode 6. Term Limits

2011-03-18

A US senator from 2058 is hiding a secret from the President that could kill her career and her lover.

Episode 7. The Arrival

2011-03-25

While most of the universe is dreaming, the jukebox mysteriously allows an unwelcome stranger into Bar Karma, and James must face his deepest fears.

Episode 8. The Hacker

2011-04-01

When Doug tries to stop a hacker from releasing a virus to destroy the Internet, Dayna must take the biggest risk of all...leaving the bar.

Episode 9. The Woman with Multiple Personalities

2011-04-08

When a waitress with multiple personalities enters Bar Karma, the staff must determine which personality has the karmic dilemma and how to help her.

Episode 10. The Day the Music Died

2011-04-15

When a man runs into Bar Karma to escape the police, the staff is scared of what he's hiding in his jacket...until they see it's not a gun, but a drumstick.

Episode 11. Enter the Community

2011-04-22

Worlds collide when a Bar Karma Community Member is the patron at the bar and explores the cosmic choices leading to the series finale.

Episode 12. Man Walks Out of a Bar

2011-04-29

Doug returns to the luxury of his former life and is offered a deal on an unusual news organization. But Dayna tries to bring him back by revealing the truth about her ... and why he was brought to Bar Karma in the first place.

Cast by season

William Sanderson

Matthew Humphreys

Cassie Howarth

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