A teenager released from juvie sets his mind on clean living, only to find that his rural towns factory has outsourced and the local kingpin has taken over turning all the desperate townsfolk into criminals. (Episodic Series)

Loglines are about what characters do, not about lessons they learn.? So in your pilot episode, what is the immediate inciting incident and what does your main character do about it?? What becomes her or his objective goal?

A gold standard model for structuring the pilot plot of a series is “Breaking Away”.? A logline for the? episode launching the series might be written as:? “When a milquetoast high school chemistry teacher? is diagnosed with incurable cancer (inciting incident), he starts manufacturing meth to earn enough money to provide for his family after he’s dead (objective goal).”