A Holiday Sitcom Pitch

Meet Sam and Grace, I’ll call it. Two lovable idiots trying to make it in the strange hustle and bustle of New York. One of them, a lovable eco-conscious traveller who gives far too much of her time to helping everyone else, and the other one a business almost-graduate bent on making his mark both at Uni and in the real world. OK, he’s lovable as well. They have fun, oh boy do they have fun. They disco together, weekend at his grandparent’s house in the Hamptons together, and they laugh at other sitcoms on TV together (this show is going to be full of irony, it’s the peak of comedy after all). The city never sleeps, and neither do they. They’re the odd couple without the couple.

Except it’s not a sitcom. These are two idiots that I went to school with, who I followed out of Canberra to live in Melbourne with, and by pure chance, have lived with both of them. Separately. It’s a mess, don’t get into it. OK so New York is really Melbourne, but the rest of it is true. I’m lucky to have them in my life, but even more recently, lucky to have spent my Easter with them.

It’s a weird thing, spending Easter away from your family, but having friends around that you’d call family isn’t the next best thing, it is the thing. Happy Holidays, from my friends-I’d-call-family to yours.