Meet Me @ The Mall

TV PILOT (Comedy)

Today's working adults were teenagers in 2008, content with part time jobs and eyes toward a brighter tomorrow. Those same stores are still there, those same jobs, and the same minimum wage of $7.25. In many suburban towns, you might even find some of the same workers. Tomorrow never came. This is a series for all those who never left the mall. This is for everyone who put in the work and got nothing back.  Meet Me at the Mall details the start of the labor class uprising. At the helm is Rhiannon, a first generation Caribbean-American who is smart and capable and naïve as all hell. But on the eve of her 16th birthday, after suffering her 400th blow, she'll knock down the first domino. What comes after is reckless abandonment, scamming, thievery, and the greatest revolt that almost was.

As a revival of the teen melodrama in conversation with Skins and Degressi, Meet Me at the Mall is hijinks against a gritty, harsh reality. The major theme is adult responsibility with childlike restrictions. These are adolescent problems, immature and all consuming weighted by work problems, financial woes and bad decisions. These characters each learn the hard way that the consequences for negligence in either arena is devastating.  In the last breath before social media united a world, communities localized at shopping malls all across America. The mall was once the keeper of commerce, the pillar of culture. In a microcosm governed by the whims of fickle hormones, the youth held the keys to the kingdom for better or worse. With all that power, we could've crippled a nation and brought America to it's knees. This series is a revisionist history of what should've been.