As summer draws to a close, so must our summer cycle. Cycle 17 brought us fun times, fighting babies, time travel, homoerotically charged friendship, and enough breadsticks and radioactive goo to go around.
Week one started out with some strong returners: episode 2 of Jack Ventimilia’s reality TV spoof chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island (and it’s gonna be sooo great); episode 3 of Sarah Jae Leiber’s music-fueled Beatles fever dream Baby, It’s You; and episode 6 (!) of AJ Ditty’s post-apocalyptic retelling of the Odyssey, The Adventures of Bungo Calamity, Apocalypse Clown. They were joined by two pilot episodes by two Serials newcomers: The Strongest Babies in New America by Leah Plante-Weiner, and Age of Sagittarius by Georgia Wright.
But, much like the runtiest baby in the fighting ring, two of these brilliant episodes left the week defeated, and we waved goodbye to both The Strongest Babies in New America and Baby, It’s You! (though rumor has it a newly finished full-length script is now available on Sarah Jae Leiber’s NPX…)
Week two introduced us to two time-traveling pilots. We traveled to the 19th C merchant marine with nukes in tow for The Merry Wavecrash by writing duo Phil Jameson and Jeremy Kaplowitz. And Time Warpz by Serena Norr saw us visiting a disturbingly crooked 1950s diner to dance the jitterbug with its arch denizens! Unfortunately, neither of these pilots will be continuing into the future with us, as they were beat out by an Upper East Side mother (who is actually Nick Turturro in drag), a cringy marriage proposal in Olive Garden, and overcoming familial abuse by screaming The Killers at the top of your lungs with the entire audience in support– I mean, The Age of Sagittarius, chiara and lauren take a trip to friendship island, and Bungo Calamity, Apocalypse Clown.
We can’t wait to see where these returning storylines will go next, and we can’t wait to see you all back at the Tank in the fall!
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