After his theater is shut down for lack of fire permits, Arthur sits in a diner. He meets a woman named Elena who is reading a book with a torn cover. They talk. She’s funny, sharp, and perfectly content with her job at the DMV. Arthur asks her what she’d rate her day.
The story follows Arthur as he undergoes a mid-life crisis triggered by that specific decimal point. He realizes that "6.6" is the graveyard of ambition. It’s the rating for movies people watch while folding laundry. 6.6 / 10 ComedyDram...
Arthur is fundamentally a 6.6 person. His "rebellion" is pathetic. He tries to get a tattoo, but faints halfway through, leaving him with a permanent ink smudge that looks like a bruised grape. His puppet theater’s debut—a gritty, R-rated retelling of The Great Gatsby —is attended only by a confused group of toddlers and one very lost delivery driver. The humor lies in the gap between Arthur’s grandiose "Prestige Drama" vision of himself and the "Sitcom" reality of his incompetence. After his theater is shut down for lack