When the IRS seize their fortune, an out of touch father takes his pampered wife and snotty children to live in a backwater town they once bought as a joke.
Nicholas Andrew HallsSamurai
When the IRS seize their fortune, an out of touch father takes his pampered wife and snotty children to live in a backwater town they once bought as a joke.
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And do what? What’s his goal? Is it to reclaim his fortune? The goal usually has a strong correlation to the inciting incident – in this case the loss of his fortune. I imagine, the family moving to the backwater town is the end of Act I, so what happens in Act II?
Hey – thanks for your response. I was actually trying to write a logline for Schitt’s Creek as an exercise. I take your point thought – what’s the father’s goal? I always find that harder to nail down in shows that are designed kind of open ended, like sitcoms.
I suppose it’s to find a way to get the family back on their feet, or to survive – which both feel very broad and unfocussed. But that blanket kind of provides the framework for the episodes to each have their own specific goals. How do you think you’d include that kind of open ended or vague goal into the logline?