A middle-aged businessman travels Japan for work and eats alone at local restaurants. That is the show. Each episode: Goro arrives in a new city, has a complicated interaction with the outside world, finds a restaurant, sits down, orders, and eats with total concentration and visible joy. A running internal monologue that turns the act of eating lunch into something transcendent. Multiple seasons, no character development, no plot, and somehow one of the most satisfying shows in the medium.
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