into the ears of his production executives.
Lets look at the pilots!
Both nieces have kids, but they spend all day in front of the TV set.
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They live in a residential community called Sea Oak, advertised on a sign as A Place to Live!
That might be an overstatement: Gunshots ring out in the night as a regular occurrence.
The gunshots appear at night along with the ice cream truck song.
Bernies nephew has a curious job, posing in a historical exhibit thats also a strip club.
Theres a big twist inSea Oak,though.
Its the whole concept a wonderful surprise I wont spoil.
By day, she works at the Jane Berger House, a home for people with Down syndrome.
Everetts a great screen presence, cheerfully authoritative in the workplace and relatably messy (wine in bed!)
This conversation leads to the invention of a new word, repultrigued (both repulsedandintrigued.)
It also leads Nia to a revelation: I think it means its my time, or something.
I want to remain willfully ignorant as an act of defiance, she declares.
The Climbs pilot is, essentially, a sitcom focused mainly on Nia and partially on Misty.
They go to work, go to happy hour, have some tangled romantic interactions.
But the show captures something mesmerizing in Nias internal struggle.
I want to befulfilled, she says.
Her love interest laughs, says that shes got white girl problems.
Isnt that why Martin Luther King died, anyways?
So that one day, I could have white girl problems!
That line and Kilpatricks performance captures the sincerity of Nias ambitionsandthe shows askew riff on the modern American Dream.
Its hard to know if this balance could continue in a series, but this pilot is a marvel.
So I dont really know whereThe Climbwill go but Ill follow.A-
