Kate she’s new here.
Kate is an ensemble half our comedy following the the life of a sheltered small down girl who recently moved to Toronto to reset her life and follow her dreams but what she finds is a place full of constant judgement and ravage social justice.
It’s basically a sitcom making fun of, , millennials, city living and social justice.
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OUR PREMISE After glancing at a motivational meme Kate is struck with a sense of wonderment. It’s hit a nerve and she needs to escape her mundane life and live in the greatest city in the country- Toronto. Now she’s moved into her brother’s loft and is starting completely anew. Her big problem is that her small town values are getting in the way of her understanding big city trends, political correctness, and of course that the rent is too damn high. She meet’s Quinn, her brother’s best friend and popular social media artist, Alex, Matt’s career-driven and charming ex-girlfriend who to take her under their wing. With their help, Kate does her best to fulfill her life exploring all the big city has to offer.
Hey look it’s a quirky f ish out of wa ter based in Toronto!
KATE
KATIE LEANNE-DAWN BLORC H “ THE LEAD”
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Kate is playing catch up- pure and simple. She never left her small town, she was married at 23, she’s doesn’t know whats cool- she doesn’t even have a smart phone.
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But now she’s following her dreams and living in the city. She needs to learn pretty much everything about being a millennial: what to wear, how to not offend people, what insta/ facebook/snapchat/tinder is, feminism, liberalism, yoga, the “arts.”
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Well everything- but she's ready and willing to change her life for the better.
She’s like that dog loating in space f ying around tr . to air walk
MATT
MATTHEW OTIS BLORC H “ THE SNARKY HOTHEAD” Matt, as Kate’s brother, also hails from the small-town of Old Craigsdale and has resentment for it’s humble, not so special, community.
Matt’s a dick.
He came to the city to try his hand at enterprise. He owns a boutique bike repair shop but has high hopes it will become 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.
QYNN
QUINN PERSUAD “ THE LIKEABLE COOL -GUY”
Qynn is that cool hipster artist people like having around at parties. He knows what’s cool and isn’t afraid to remind people what’s not. His “art pieces” don’t really make sense but he’s achieved 100k followers on instagram so he’s content He uses Matt’s stupidly large loft to create his projects and Matt get’s to feed off his popularity to sell his business. He wants to prove he truly is an artist and not just some instagrammer. When Qynn meet’s Kate is completely baffled by her lack of awareness and finds it weirdly compelling.
Everybod y loves Quinn. B ut be cool ok ay?
ALEX
ALEXANDRA FORD “ THE ALPHA WOMAN” eping Try ke es this on on attenti e then for mor nds. o c e s 0 2
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Alex is a quick-witted no bullshit power woman. She’s caring, when you can get her attention, but usually bats away people like flies. She’s responsible and always knows the best way forward.
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Since breaking up with Matt, she’s done very well for herself but has only found shallow one-night stands and long nights of partying. She’s sick and tired of the “Scene” and the “fake” people she see’s at work and networking events.
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At a Qyn event, she meets Kate and is pulled into her world as she see’s Kate as “the most genuine person she’s ever met.”. As Kate’s new best friend, she now has to deal with Matt’s plans to get her back.
JOSHUA
JOSHUA HUNT “NICES T, DUMBES T MAN IN THE WORLD” Joshua is a happy simpleton. His decisions are quick, his emotions are positive, but doesn’t always think about the consequences of his actions. At the first sign of Kate being missing he immediately goes on to the next thing without skipping a beat. He married her at the age of 21 on whim and purchased the SS Wet Dreams on first offer. His dream is to sail to Kingston, Ontario and not be in the way of anyones good vibes. Joshua is the nicest, dumbest man in the series.
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 being watchable and fun, deals with the harsh and jarring realities of growing up in modern day with topics like social justice, trendiness, greediness, laziness, post curation, activism, rising rent cost, terrorism, cognitive dissonance, self reliance, narcissism, cynicism, etc. Social justice being one of the main focuses of the series. All stories have to deal with being political correct in their own way but our story uses it as a main guiding principle. It seems as though absolutely everything now must be put in a category, on spectrum, or classified as this or that. Kate is basic. She’s white. She’s from a regular family, and a little small town called Craigsdale. In this matter, everything she does at first, is completely wrong and and intolerant. Of course, she is not. She’s just naive. But as she goes on this journey through urban life she’s going to learn just how far we’ve all come in terms of prejudice, and accepting all ways of life. This is why the setting of Toronto is imperative. What better city to show a lowly white girl how to check her privilege? Our main characters are designed to support and drive her story while showing other perspectives. Each of them embody one of the four main traits that make up the flawed millennial. Kate is optimism. Matt is entitlement. Quinn is narcissism. Alex is cynicism. Each character takes Kate under their wing to teach her their ways and as she starts reflecting them. In doing this Kate, throughout the story, changes in many superficial ways keeping our vessel in this journey interesting and fresh but in the end she always sticks to her gut instinct, the Craigsdale Way, which ultimately saves her from losing everything. It’s a story that is written to reflect relatable situations back at the young urbanite and show them just how absurd they really are.
p and She goes u nd na comes dow g get’s everythin worse :(
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.
3. Kate and Matt constantly are fighting living and working
together so Qyn recommends she try his method of working and become instagram famous. She attempts it and goes viral yet again for the wrong reasons. Alex ends up finding her a job at Versa as an assistant and Matt warns of her becoming snobby like everyone who works there.
6. Quinn debuts his new art series based on the online harassment
Kate has faced for her original racist fashion faux pas 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 it’s unjust social outrage, while Alex and Kate believe otherwise. 7. Alex breaks off plans with Matt after not getting over their last
argument to go on a group Tinder date with Kate and Quinn. Matt is paid a visit by the tax-man. 8. Kate is now officially a social influencer and quits her stable job at
Versa. Kate’s attitude has also risen to a state of arrogance and Alex, Matt and Quinn devise a plan to humble Kate returning her to her old self.
4. Alex brings her new girlfriend Slaine, who also dated Qyn, to a
camping trip in Muskoka. Matt and Qyn accidently set off on a drug induced spiritual journey while sailing and Kate meets some old friends.
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 rye. Qyn is faced with a harsh reality about his love for Kate.
5. Kate needs to get things from her hometown and the gang
take the return trip to Old Craigsdale to support Kate and Matt while they face their past. Qyn and Alex find out exactly why Kate and Matt are such oddballs.
10. Matt’s hate for the government comes back to bite him as he has
pay 7 years of taxes and is forced to move out of the loft. Qyn 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 online self and in turn starts losing her optimism for living in the city. Josh comes back from sailing to Kingston and Kate is confronted with choice of forging ahead with her new life or going back to what’s comfortable and familiar.