Grey Area - Web Series
About:
We co-produced this hit web series with our friends at Last Second Sea. With two seasons totaling 24 episodes, the series has developed a cult following online with 20,000+ viewers regularly tuning in to check for new episodes. We are currently in pre-production for our third season and look forward to bringing it to viewers very soon!
Logline:
A newly woke white woman overcompensating for years of sideline sitting and a tranquil black man who is equal parts hood and good, are on display via a reality tv show to broadcast the complexities of their marriage in a brash, mockumentary style sitcom.
In the trusty hands of an overworked and underpaid reality TV crew that’s constantly checking the clock, the couple attempts to adjust for the cameras while dissecting the glaring differences in their opinions on a slew of current events.
Synopsis:
Kate and Jay’s interracial marriage is suddenly put under a microscope when Kate’s emerging influencer brand lands them a second rate reality TV show deal. Now, their highly nuanced relationship that once privately balanced Jay’s blackness in America with Kate’s clumsy overnight activism, suddenly has the world watching.
In the trusty hands of an overworked and underpaid reality TV crew that’s constantly checking the clock, the couple attempts to adjust for the cameras while dissecting the glaring differences in their opinions on a slew of current events.
Tone:
Grey Area is an informal, rapid fire comedy that gives an unfiltered point of view of society through the lens of an interracial couple. The combined interracial voice is like putting us in the middle of a marriage between Donald Glover and Amy Poehler. Unpacking topics that traditional sitcoms shy away from, Grey Area is as if New Girl was in the hood. The show’s voice speaks to the viewer like a trusted, best friend. Slightly ashamed for not understanding new ideals, but still willing to ask questions because it feels it won’t be punished for them. Instead of finding the politically correct thing to say, it ridicules our very need to. Using humor to inspect instead of deflect, Grey Area treats every place it ventures into as a safe space. That honesty allows it to unpack harmful stereotypes while acknowledging the humor in the mundane. It’s not ignorant, and it’s not woke, it’s the peculiar but hilarious journey of bouncing in between the two. The Grey Area.