An interesting concept and generally well thought out. I quite enjoyed it - but why so long? It's as if the director called all of the cast together and said something like, "Look guys, the company needs to fill an eight-episode gap in the schedules. So what I need you to do is... speak very s-l-o-w-l-y. (pause) leave big (pause) gaps between each (big pause) sentence. Visibly consider every (pause) word said to you by the other (huge pause) actor, finally responding (pause) ..." You get the drift. So slow. So very, very slow.