In STEAMBATH, a TV adaptation of Bruce Jay Friedman's off-Broadway play, a man (Bill Bixby) finds himself, inexplicably, in a steambath. He, Tandy, soon discovers to his dismay that he and his oddball companions in towels are all dead, and that the sweltering steambath is a purgatory where indifferent souls come to confess their stories to a wisecracking Puerto Rican attendant (Jose Perez) who just happens to be God, and who, after listening, sends them on their way, for good or bad. Tandy, convinced that he was leading a happy life and should be sent back, puts up a good fight. But as he and God talk (actually, Tandy talks, God mostly listens), he realizes his life was an empty one and that now he’s ready to accept his fate. Funny, bittersweet, thought-provoking.
