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'The Big Door Prize' asks: How would you live if you knew your life's potential?

A mysterious machine appears in a small town, promising to reveal each person's "life potential." The premise may suggest The Twilight Zone, but the quirky ensemble cast delivers something warmer.
Dusty (Chris O'Dowd) stares his potential in the face in <em>The Big Door Prize.</em>

The premise, at least, comes straight out of The Twilight Zone.

In the small town of Deerfield, a mysterious machine appears one day in the general store. Sit inside its booth, which surrounds you with an eerie blue glow, and the apparatus dispenses a card that reveals your life's potential.

And if AppleTV+'s was in fact a episode, or for that matter a Stephen King novel, you'd know what to expect next: A moralistic tale that posits a vision of humanity as venal,.

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