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Kate is a half-hour ensemble comedy following the life of a small-town girl who moves to the big city for a fresh start but finds herself in a world of constant judgement and a minefield of political correctness.
It’s basically a sitcom making fun of millennials, city living and social justice warriors.
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OUR PREMISE An inspirational meme acts as the mundane catalyst Kate needs to pick herself up and seek adventure in the greatest city in the country…Toronto. She moves into her brother Matt’s loft with high expectations of her new glamorous life, but finds that her small-town values are getting in the way of navigating the new liberal social circles she finds herself in. Plus, the rent is too damn high. Among the colourful cast of characters she meets, Kate’s taken under the wing of Quinn, her brother’s best friend and #trending artist, and Alex, Matt’s charming and ambitious ex-girlfriend. With their help, Kate tries her best to explore all that the big city has to offer... with more a few embarrassing moments along the way.
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KATE
KATIE LEANNE-DAWN BLORC H “ THE LEAD”
Kate is, to put it simply, playing catch-up. After staying in her small town and getting married at 21, she definitely doesn’t know what “cool” is. She doesn’t even have a smartphone. But now she’s following her dreams and living in the city, trying desperately to learn everything her new friends already know: what to wear, how not to offend people, the fine balance of angles for instagram/snapchat/tinder, and how to get “art”. Basically, everything. She has a long way to go, but she's ready. Maybe.
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MATT
MATTHEW OTIS BLORC H “ THE SNARKY HOTHEAD”
Matt, Kate’s brother, is also from the smalltown of Old Craigsdale and harbours resentment for it’s humble, super un-hip, community. He came to the city to try his hand at enterprise. He owns a boutique bike repair shop but has high hopes that it will develop into a business empire. He believes in capitalism, hates the government, is extremely stubborn, and believes most conspiracy theories are real. Like his sister, he has absolutely no filter and thinks he can take on the world.
Matt’s a dick.
QYNN
QUINN PERSUAD “ THE LIKEABLE COOL -GUY” Qynn is that smooth hipster artist that people want to show up to their parties. He acts as the group’s barometer for what’s cool and isn’t afraid to remind people what isn’t. His “art pieces” don’t really make sense but he’s collected 100k followers on Instagram so it doesn’t really matter. He uses Matt’s stupidly large loft to host his pieces and Matt profits off the chance to promote his business. Qynn desperately wants to prove his worth as a legitimate artist, not just as an “Instagrammer”. He’s baffled by Kate’s complete lack of social awareness but finds it strangely compelling and full of potential as a project.
Everybod y loves Quinn. B ut be cool ok ay?
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ALEX
ALEXANDRA FORD “ THE ALPHA WOMAN”
Alex is a quick-witted, no bullshit power woman. She’s caring, when you can get her attention, but usually pushes people away before they see that side of her. She’s responsible and always knows the best way forward. Since breaking up with Matt, she’s found success in her career but is tired of the “scene” and the fake people she meets at networking events, growing weary of the shallow one-night stands and long nights of partying. She’s drawn to Kate as the most “genuine person she’s ever met’ when they cross paths at a Qynn event. As Kate’s new best friend, she’s stuck dealing with Matt’s incessant plans to win her back.
JOSHUA
JOSHUA HUNT “NICES T, DUMBES T MAN IN THE WORLD” Joshua is a happy, fool-hardy simpleton, and Kate’s estranged husband. His outlook is unnervingly positive, and he doesn’t like to overthink things...even when the results might end up When Kate leaves him, he immediately moves on with his life, purchasing the SS Wet Dreams with plans to sail to Kingston, Ontario. His main objective in life? Good vibes. Joshua is the dumbest, most wellmeaning, man in the world.
THE CITY
This city isn’t wha t you think it is.
The liberal city of Toronto is a complete culture shock for Kate, an ubersheltered small-town girl, who is forced to confront the harsh realities of life and societal fallacies. As our main character learns what it’s like to be an accepting and tolerant member of progressive society, she’ll encounter poverty, classism, sexism, hipsterism, homelessness, yuppies, trendies, foodies, yogis, public indecency, egoism and, of course, the cold-hearted dating scene.
OUR ACTORS
A s h l e y Tr e d e n i c k h a s appeared as a series regular on Gangland Undercover, Improbablia, and, to her feature credit, Late Night Double Feature, Diamond Tongues (TIFF/Netflix), and won Best Actress for the short film Panic (2014).
Along with an extensive background in digital comedy shorts (accruing over 10 million views YT/FOD), Mark can currently be seen in N e t fl i x - f e a t u re d c o m e d y Almost Adults, and horror film The Sublet, ranked as Breakthrough Entertainment’s most critically acclaimed acclaimed film.
Glenda MacInnis has appeared as a series-regular on many television shows (Lost Girl, Bitten, 12 Monkeys and upcoming American Gods). Her love for TV and film has taken her to the production side on projects like Clusterf*ck and Later Baby.
CFC Alumni Andy McQueen has appeared on successful television shows, including The Girlfriend Experience, Saving Hope, The Bridge, Warehouse 13, The Listener, and Satisfaction. His feature credits include Pretend We’re Kissing, The Ring: The Prequel, Edging and Quantum Entanglements
Let’s get real here.
BUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN Our comedy, while fun and watchable, deals with the jarring challenge of a misguided white girl being forced to finally check her privilege and accept the harsh reality of society’s inequalities and prejudice. She’ll encounter social justice, trendiness, greediness, laziness, post curation, activism, rising rent cost, terrorism, cognitive dissonance, self reliance, narcissism, cynicism, etc. All part of the story’s overarching guiding principle, all episodes deal with political correctness in a unique way. It seems to Kate that everything is now put into a category, and it turns out that she’s...basic. She’s naive and privileged and it turns out that everything she’s doing is completely wrong. But she wants to learn; she goes through this journey into urban life with an open mind about how far we have come, and a new openness to ways of life that she has never encountered. This is why the setting of Toronto is imperative to the storyline. What better place to show a small-town white girl the ways of the world than one of the most diverse cities in the world? Our main characters are designed to support and drive her story, each showing a different aspect of the flawed millennial. Kate is optimism. Matt is entitlement. Quinn is narcissism. Alex is cynicism. As each character takes Kate under their wing, we see her character change many times over the course of the season. But she stays true to her gut instincts, in the Old Craigsdale way, ultimately saving her from losing everything. It’s a story written to reflect relatable situations back at young urbanites and force them to see the absurdity of society.
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SEASON ARC Episode Format and Outline (10xEp)
1. Kate bored of her suburban life pops into the cool Toronto
bubble her brother Matt has been cultivating and stirs up controversy with a racially insensitive fashion choice.
2. Kate is left with no home, no job, and no husband. She begs
her way back into her brother's loft and agrees to work at repairing bikes with him and is given a sensitivity training lesson by Alex and Quinn.
6. Quinn debuts his new art series, based on the online harassment Kate received after her racist fashion faux pas, hoping to release her from social exile. Alex and Matt are getting closer and Kate is confronted by a young woman who felt personally attacked by Kate's insensitivity. Matt believes she’s an irate “social justice warrior”, but Alex and Kate believe otherwise.
7. Alex breaks off plans with Matt after the resurgence of an old argument, and agrees to go on a group Tinder date with Kate and Quinn. Matt is paid a visit by the tax-man.
3. In such close proximity, Kate and Matt constantly are
fighting living and working together, so Quinn recommends she follow his lead and become Instagram famous. After going viral for all the wrong reasons, she ends up working as an assistant at Versa, Alex’s office. Matt warns her that everyone who works there ends up being a snob.
4. Alex brings her new girlfriend Slaine, who also dated Quinn,
to a camping trip in Muskoka. Matt and Quinn accidently set off on a drug-induced spiritual journey while sailing and Kate meets some old friends.
5. Kate needs to get things from her hometown and the gang
takes a road-trip to Old Craigsdale, acting as support as Kate and Matt face their past. Quinn and Alex find out exactly why Kate and Matt are such oddballs.
8. Kate is now officially a social media “influencer” and quits her stable job at Versa. Kate’s attitude has also risen to a state of arrogance and the others devise a plan to humble Kate and return her to her old self. 9. Alex is put in charge of an important PR event for a brand she feels strongly against. The gang uses the event to show Kate the error of her ways but it goes horribly wrong. Quinn is faced with a harsh reality about his love for Kate.
10. Matt’s hate for the government comes back to bite him in a big way as he pays 7 years of taxes and is forced to move out of the loft. Quinn and Alex come to the realization that their lives are shallow and meaningless. Kate is brutally trolled and shamed online by an unknown source, forcing her to delete her online presence and lose her optimism for living in the city. Josh comes back from sailing to Kingston and Kate is confronted with the choice of forging ahead with her new life or going back to what’s comfortable and familiar.