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Late Bloomers Season 2

Late Bloomers Season 2

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[THE STUDENT]
Male, 20, South Asian. Smart, likable, with plenty of hustle and drive, a lanky, shy Sikh, the Student is in business school in Canada, living with three other guys and eking out a precarious existence by delivering food on his bike. With a girlfriend back home, Bani, the student is excited about having her come to Canada to go to college as well. The Student finds himself at his wits end when he loses his bike and his job in one day, and comes dangerously close to despair. Fortunately, his innate optimism and determination keep him on his feet. LARGE PRINCIPAL
**Talent must be able to speak Punjabi

[BANI]
Female, 20s, South Asian. The Student’s girlfriend, traditional, smart, sweet, a bit shy, Bani is still living at home in India. She and the Student talk often, and Bani plans to come join him in Canada as soon as she gets into a college there. She’s very excited when she finally gets her letter from an immigration agent that she’s been accepted to a Canadian college, and she’s devastated when she discovers later that she’s been the victim of a scammer, who took all of her family’s money and disappeared. PRINCIPAL
**Talent must be able to speak Punjabi

[AMANJOT]
Male, 20s, South Asian. One of the Student’s friends and roommates, Amanjot is an affable, brawny Sikh guy. Confident, outgoing, Amanjot thinks the way he does things is the best way and tries to convince the Student to drink his shakes, go to his college and buy himself an electric bike for his deliveries. Amanjot appears in an anxiety dream that the Student has, in which the Student’s girlfriend falls for him. PRINCIPAL
**Talent must be able to speak Punjabi

[NEHANTH]
Male, 20s, South Asian. Nehanth is one of the Students friends and roommates. An easy-going, likable guy, Nehanth advises the Student to go on Craigslist to find a bike when his is stolen. When the Student finds his stolen bike for sale there, Nehanth and Parminder advise him on how to handle it. PRINCIPAL
**Talent must be able to speak Hindi

Logline: Finally out of the house, Jasmeet channels all of his energy into his career and blossoming relationship with Rebecca, but he can’t escape the repressed underlying familial guilt that looms over everything.

Show Synopsis: Jasmeet has what he hoped for: growing success, perceived independence, and the love of his crush, Rebecca. His life has only gotten better since he packed his bags and drove away from home, proving he was right about his family holding him back, and now he can live out his dream. But eventually, Jasmeet has to face reality when he begins to feel how his unresolved baggage with his family weighs on him. It also becomes clear that his relationship with Rebecca isn’t as perfect as it seemed. This is in part because he’s just transferred the dependence he had on his family support to Rebecca, but also because Rebecca has always represented, to Jasmeet, an alternative life. The question is, is it the right life for him? On a macro level, this season is an exploration into the ways in which we take our baggage with us into new relationships and new beginnings. The baggage Jasmeet is carrying into his new life is representative of the added struggle that children of immigrants carry with them even as they try to build their own ways in North American society. The immigrant experience is loaded with baggage, and that baggage is carried through generationally- whether we choose to continue existing in the cultural space our communities occupy in North America, or even when we try to extricate ourselves and break away. Following a relationship between two people from the Indian diaspora- who express a different balance on their scale of eastern and western culture- will help us understand the layers of experiences the community at large faces. We can’t outrun the histories of our experiences, we can only hope to do the work to make each generation cope better than the last.