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Last modified on Tue 20 Apr 2021 10.47 EDT Several men walk into several bars in this interlocking suite of tales, and the repeating permutations of barman and barfly, blue collar and white collar, father and son, raconteur and listener pile up pleasingly into a kind of oppressive, Coenesque cosmic joke. RJ Mitte, Breaking Badâs Walter White Jr, plays college boy Steve, who turns up in a snowstorm at a bar owned by the irascible Paul (Peter Outerbridge). He owes the latter money â and without it, Paul wonât give up the ashes of Steveâs recently deceased dad, Gord, whose funeral the youth failed to attend. And then this arrogant sadsack â whose very presence aggravates Paul â offers to pay him with a story. ....