20 Men Pilot
GENRE
SATIRE COMEDY ROMANCE
Core Theme
IT'S ABOUT A YOUNG WOMAN FINDING HERSELF.
TIME PERIOD
Contemporary
COMPARABLE TITLES
HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, MOM, NEW GIRL
CHARACTER LIST
• JULIA (YOUNGER VERSION): 24. LEAD. LOYAL AND PRUDISH.
• MOLLY: 13. JULIA'S DAUGHTER. INNOCENT & IMPRESSIONABLE.
• RAMONA: 24. JULIA'S BEST FRIEND. SASSY & DARING.
• JASON: 24. JULIA'S EX BOYFRIEND. DISHONEST & RELIGIOUS.
Logline
Much to the dismay of her teenage daughter, a woman recounts how she reclaimed her sexuality and identity in her twenties--by ditching archaic ideals of female purity and sleeping with twenty different men.
Genre
Satire,Comedy,Romance
Target Audiences
Age: 18-34,13-17
Target Gender: Female Leaning,Universal
Setting
Los Angeles
Based on a True Story
No
Starting Description
Julia and her long-term boyfriend have been waiting until marriage to have sex, but Julia decides she's ready to lose her virginity with him. Unfortunately for her, her boyfriend has already decided he was ready and has been sleeping with someone else.
Ending Description
Julia wants to move on from her cheating boyfriend, but the modern dating world is hard to navigate. Can she resist getting back with her ex? Could she ever develop feelings for someone new?
Pitch Adaptation
Multi Camera comedies have a bad reputation, but with the ample jokes and sparse sets, this show could be a great multi-cam. The series would follow Julia as she becomes more confident and secure with herself, going from a timid virgin to a proud woman who eventually sleeps with twenty different guys and is able to share the lesson with her daughter that she is her own person and doesn't have to live up to the ideals of old romantic comedies and sexist stereotypes.
WGA Number
The author has not yet written this
Mature Audience Themes
Nudity, Language/Profanity
Plot - Other Elements
Meaningful Message,Happy Ending
Plot - Premise
Internal Journey/Rebirth,Other
Main Character Details
Name: Julia
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Role: Protagonist
Key Traits: Modest,Romantic,Naive,Aspiring,Funny
Additional Character Details
Name: Ramona
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Role: Sidekick
Key Traits: Funny,Outspoken,Blunt,Sexy,Confident,Badass,Decisive
Additional Character Details
Name: Jason
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Role: antagonist
Key Traits: Religious,Narcisstic,Blunt
Additional Character Details
Name: Molly
Age: 13
Gender: Female
Role: skeptic
Key Traits: Insecure,Funny,Blunt,Empathetic,Naive,Sarcastic
Supplemental Materials
Information not completed
Brief
Series pilot. Julia's teenage daughter is feeling left out: all her friends have kissed someone by now. Julia tries to make her feel better by recounting a story about how, when she was younger, she got over a break-up by making a quest to sleep with twenty men.
What We Liked
- It's a quick-paced story;
- It's set in modern times;
- There is a small core cast for the audience to get to know;
- It deals with a subject matter almost everyone has an opinion about - dating in the 21st century;
- A message of women empowerment comes through the story, as it plays out in each episode -- a woman can show how she finds herself through sexual freedom, and getting over her controlling boyfriend;
- This is a TV series that starts off in a similar way to How I Met Your Mother, in that it makes great use of flashbacks. It starts in the present time, which is, essentially, the future, and then goes back to tell the story as it unfolds, in the modern world now. To keep the continuity, each episode would need to feature the older Julia with her daughter Molly, as she re-tells the story of what happened to her when she was younger.
Synopsis
Julia is tucking in her 13-year-old daughter, Molly, to go to sleep, but Molly is upset. She's the only one among her friends who has not kissed someone. In an attempt to make her feel better, and to teach her a lesson about sexuality and self-confidence, Julia relates to her the story of when she was 24 years old.
A restless 24-year-old Julia spends her days working at LACMA, when she's not with her long-time boyfriend, Jason. Meanwhile, her best friend, Ramona, is constantly getting into trouble with her mother for not finding a job, and sneaking home late. Ramona asks Julia if she can stay with her and Jason. Julia and Jason are celibate and have waited to have sex. Julia tells Ramona she wants to lose her virginity to Jason but he is very religious. Ramona encourages her to go for it. But when Julia jumps into the shower to surprise Jason, later that afternoon, she is greeted by him and another girl - the one he's been cheating on her with for the past couple of months.
Again, with Ramona's encouragement, Julia tries to get over Jason by going on Tinder, in an attempt to start dating again. But she's put off when the first guy she meets wants to tickle her. She's even more turned off dating when the bartender who asks her out seems to be like all the other guys - only interested in one thing. Ramona suggests Julia sleep with 20 men, casually, as a way to separate the emotion of having sex with the act of it. Problem is, after Julia sleeps with the first man on the list - Sebastian the bartender - she develops the very kind of feelings she’s not supposed to be having.