Sexual Odyssey

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A sexually uptight reporter, who has never had an orgasm, embarks on a sexual odyssey to experience her first one.

BRIEF SYNOPSIS
IZZY INGRAM (24) is considered an uptight, prudish reporter, who has never had an orgasm. She’s engaged to HARRY JONES (25), the sports director at the TV station, but he has never seen her completely naked.
She’s up for a promotion, but her boss JACK CASEY, the Executive Producer, gives the job to PENELOPE PARSONS (26), an over the top sexy executive who flirts with Jack. Izzy feels dejected. Izzy is told that sex sells and she needs to find the sexual side of her personality.
Izzy decides to take a temporarily leave from work, but when Jack Casey tells her that Penelope broke her leg and he needs her to interview
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Consider moving up the idea of her becoming a dancer. In fact, move up the idea of her becoming a dancer/stripper to the end of the first act. Then to add more conflict show how Izzy should manage her day job, her night job, and her relationship. So, by day, she’s the uptight business executive, by night the loose dancer/stripper, who doesn’t tell Harry. It can be a lot of fun to watch her try to manage this and, of course, she won’t be able to. Her various lives will conflict with each other. If Harry doesn’t know, then there’s the threat of discovery. However, with Harry she can try out new methods, sex toys, porn etc. However, until she learns to stop controlling, she’s not going to have an …show more content…
Eventually, her new life will be revealed and it will affect her work like and her relationship with Harry.
Furthermore, if the goal is for Izzy and Harry to be together, the audience needs to believe that they are really in love with each other. The concern is that right now they don’t share good chemistry. It’s challenging to believe that Izzy would be in love with Harry. Sometimes he’s too insensitive and demeaning. If the audience doesn’t believe in the relationship, the love story won’t work. Find ways to elevate their chemistry and convince the audience that they do belong together.
The other options are that she leaves Harry and finds someone else, or at the end she decides that she wants to be single.
The subplot involving Dr. Zane, unfortunately, doesn’t generate strong humor and it doesn’t feel fully credible. The idea that Dr. Zane has his own sexual issues adds too much distraction and competes with Izzy and Harry. In other words, this sometimes overshadows the main storyline. The idea of Zane and Izzy doing a show together doesn’t feel credible. However, with that said, Dr. Zane could be used as a comedy gag in which she decides to see Dr. Zane as one of her solutions only to learn that Zane is more sexually dysfunctional than her (the erection, he tells her his life story and inabilities

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