By Elizabeth Russell
One Hour TV Drama / Thriller Mini-series
A trippy, modern day fairytale follows the epic journey of the heroine, her pet unicorn Oliver and her three best friends, as they play mahjong online during the pandemic, while having no clue they've been targeted by the CIA.
"Every move they make, every word they say, every mahjong game they play! It's Amy's best friend Carrie, who is inadvertently responsible. She has no idea her husband's actually a spy for Israel, now stranded in Malta, having an affair with another agent. All hell breaks loose when they're almost killed in an assassination attempt. The Agency wants to know if Carrie and her best friends are somehow involved as well."
Floridians know disaster. They'll pull together to endure a hurricane and its aftermath. But the Covid-19 pandemic is different. It's all aftermath. When the daily anxiety of contracting the disease sets in, it colors everything for these women who make one bad decision after the next. The average Floridian gained 29 extra pounds during the pandemic. As the mahjong trashers went from couch to kitchen back to the couch, they played online mahjong while munching on Doritos, mac and cheese, fries, pizza and ice cream and drank wine, beer and spirits until they became comatose. They were changed, inside and out.
Elizabeth Russell is the creator, executive producer and writer. She has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a M.B.A. from Webster University.
Amy, the protagonist, a Cuban-American, is the glue that keeps the best friends together… Why isn't she in her house instead of parked in an empty lot to meet another online hookup?
Always a few extra pounds overweight, Marta, a buxom, German-born woman, has gained over 15 pounds eating junk food and drinking wine while she isolates inside her North Miami Beach condo.
Carrie met her husband, Amir, a Middle Eastern businessman from Dubai, in college… Amir is a spy for Israel and the very reason why the CIA is tracking his every move.
Unhappily married to Richard, a physician, Vickie craves a better relationship… she finds Tony, a 24-year-old delivery guy from an online grocery store and seduces him.
Amy's therapist… recently has run afoul of the IRS when she didn't pay several years of back taxes. She is being used by the CIA to spy on Amy.
A CIA operative… probably responsible directly or indirectly for the planning and execution of over several hundred suspected terrorists and foreign spies.
She is married to an Israeli captain in the army. She speaks fluent English, Hebrew and Arabic… She was recruited by Mossad when she was in the Israeli army.
A beach boy who grew up in Miami… He likes Vickie and the way her body moves in bed but is embarrassed by the huge age difference.
He's Amy's go-to pet unicorn and confidante. He used to hang out in Wonderland with Alice, the Mad Hatter and the March Hare… Oliver likes chocolate, vodka and singing aloud.
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