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Pilot

7 Episodes

AMC
 
Executive Producers: Mike Gauyo and Jean Elie

Producers: Melissa Llewellyn-Alston and Michael McGarry

Director: Stewart Yost

Writers: Mike Gauyo and Jean Elie

Casting Directors: Michelle Adams, Alan Luna

Start Date: Feb. 1st, 2022 

Location: Los Angeles, CA

FRITZ - CAST: Jean Elie 

MUMMY - CAST: Karina Bonnefil 

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[ MAC LEVINE ]
Mac is a biracial (half Jewish, half Haitian) curious, sweet, and strong fourteen-year-old girl struggling with high school and moving forward after her father’s death. Growing up with her Jewish mother, who works out of town as a traveling nurse, she’s decided to move in with her grandmother, Mummy, to be closer to her father’s memory and to unpack the events surrounding his death. After moving in, she realizes living with Mummy isn’t what she expected. They butt heads over their grief, Mac wants to know more about her father but Mummy doesn’t want to open the wound. While dealing with her grief, she struggles to understand both of her cultures as a Jewish and Haitian teenager. Feeling overlooked at school and getting in fights, she creates a new public persona that she hopes will ingratiate herself with her peers. Unlike Fritz and Mummy, who are stuck in a cycle of reaction over Simp’s death, Mac has unintentionally begun to turn toward her grief when she literally wears it on her back like armor, embracing the notoriety of being the child of her murdered father. Mac’s desire to fit in at her new school proves disastrous as her peers ridicule her for grieving over her father. She then realizes everyone doesn’t have her best interest at heart and comes to understand family is everything. Mac begins to let her guard down and embrace Mummy. Now when Fritz calls, Mummy is teaching Mac Creole phrases over the holidays, signifying their blossoming relationship. As things begin to look up between the two of them, she has a secret that may hurt Fritz and her grandmother -- she wants to contact her father’s killer....SERIES REGULAR

[ SIMP ]
(Mid 30s, Haitian American), the nucleus of the family and Mummy’s son from a prior marriage. Only ever seen through photographs, Fritz’s projection of him, and flashbacks. Simp was murdered a few years ago, leaving behind his daughter, Mac, causing a shift in the family that forced Fritz to step up as a surrogate father and man of the household. Simp grew up in Brockton at Mummy’s house and lived there his entire life. Simp supported Fritz in everything he wanted to do in life, including becoming an actor. Fritz continues to conjure Simp as his voice of reason and conscience. These moments in the series appear when Fritz is under the influence of drugs and alcohol. When Simp appears, he speaks them deep truths from Fritz’s mind that he doesn’t want to confront......RECURRING ROLE

[ PAPI ]
(50s, Haitian) is a laid back Casanova and Fritz’s father. They have a surface level relationship that is anchored in a mutual childlike friendship that lacks any emotional depth. In the series we’ll touch on his relationship with Mummy and Fritz through text messages, Facebook posts, and  occasional third party conversations. Unlike Mummy and Fritz who are coping with the loss of Simp, Papi, who is of no relation, doesn’t share the same grief. Fritz is his only son. After Mummy and Papi separate at the top of the Season, Papi is too busy out with friends to even help Mummy with tasks around the house, avoiding her obvious attempts at reconnecting. Papi, throughout the series, will build a deeper relationship with his son when he is shown a reflection of his behavior that’s clearly inhibiting Fritz from sustaining healthy romantic relationships...RECURRING ROLE

[ ERICA ]
Female, mid 20s, Black, she's Fritz's sometime girlfriend, a candid, say-it-like it is young woman who lives upstairs from Fritz's apartment. Seen in a torrid tryst with Fritz, she exits in a huff because he keep deflecting when she tries to break through his defenses. Tired of the lack of intimacy, she challenges Fritz to take their relationship to the next level -- but whether he will be able to or not remains to be seen...RECURRING ROLE (15)

[ NICOLE ]
Female, 30s, Black, she's Fritz's former roommate, a no-nonsense, practical woman who takes in foster children. Feisty and plain-spoken, a loyal friend, she is the voice of reason in Fritz's tumultuous life...RECURRING ROLE (7)

[ PATRICK ]
Male, 27, Haitian-American, pansexual. he's another of Fritz's loyal old friends, a real character who is filming a short movie and is always trying to enlist Fritz's A-list friends to appear, gratis. When he learns that Fritz's hit TV show has been cancelled, he's dismayed for Fritz...RECURRING ROLE (6)

[ ASHLEY ]
Female, mid 20s, Black, she's an attractive, chill young woman who is new to town. An administrator at a private school, she meets Fritz for a first date. She's amused by his obvious ploys to impress her -- but genuinely concerned when he receives an alarming phone call that interrupts their date...4 speeches & 8 lines, 1 scene (9) MAY RECUR.

[ NORMAN ]
Male, 25, white, he's an actor on Fritz's hit TV show, "This Can't Be Us" who has just got his Reiki certification and offers to adjust Fritz's chakras. Unlike Fritz, who refuses to audition for work, Norman is positioned to book his next gig when they learn the show has been cancelled...3 speeches & 4 lines, 2 scenes (4)

[ EXCESS HOLLYWOOD REPORTER ]
This entertainment reporter interviews Fritz when he is riding high as the star of a hit TV show...1 speech & 3 lines, 1 scene (5)

[ AGENT ]
This agent calls Fritz with the alarming news that his hit show hasn't been picked up for next season...1 speech & 3 lines, 1 scene (12) LINES MAY BE OFF-CAMERA.

[ BEVERLY ]
Female, Fritz's co-star on the hit show, "This Can't Be Us," she goes viral on a shocking video that gets their show cancelled...2 lines, 1 scene (13)

[ STRIPPER ]
Female, this stripper, who is smoking a blunt with Fritz, is unaware that he is experiencing a surreal fantasy...4 lines, 1 scene (28)

[ P.A. ]
This production assistant rolls his eyes at one of Fritz's picky demands...1 line, 1 scene (1)

[ CAST MEMBER ]
This actor comments when Fritz is late to the set...1 line, 1 scene (4)

[ WAITRESS ]
This sarcastic waitress waits on Fritz and Ashley. She is disgusted with Fritz, who has clearly been at the restaurant with a bunch of other women...1 speech, 1 scene (10)

[ MAN ]
This shocked man drags the out of control Beverly off stage at a karaoke night...1 line, 1 scene (14)

[ CELEB GUEST ]
This celebrity attends Fritz's ill-fated watch party...1 line, 1 scene (18)

[ ACTOR 1, 2 AND 3 ]
These actors at Fritz's watch party are approached by Patrick to appear in his short film...1 line, 1 scene apiece (21)

[ PARTY GUEST 1, 2, 3 AND 4 ]
These guests at Fritz's watch party are shocked to learn that his hit show has been cancelled...1 line, 1 scene apiece (22)

[ PARENT ]
This alarmed parent at the park is upset because Patrick has been filming the kids without permission...1 line, 1 scene (9)

[ JAVIER AND JONATHAN ]
They are Nicole's foster kids, ages 8 and 6 respectively. Jonathan is crying because Javier just threw him off the jungle gym...no lines, 1 scene apiece (7)

Storyline: Haitian American actor FRITZ  JEAN-BAPTISTE is riding high as the star of a hit TV show, "This Can't Be Us." Convinced that the good times will roll on forever, he refuses to audition for any jobs, and will only accept straight offers. On his pedestal, he plays the field with a multitude of women, refusing to become emotionally intimate with his lover ERICA, who is getting fed up with his shenanigans. But when his co-star's shameful video goes viral and their show gets cancelled as a result, Fritz is left high and dry, without work, without a girlfriend, and with no idea of what the future holds...