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Darkly Comic Crime Thriller // One-hour drama // Writer: Noah Dorsey
LOGLINE
When a severed toe turns up inside a chocolate from his failing family candy factory, an alcoholic owner desperate to save the only thing giving his life purpose claims the toe as his own—only to discover the rest of the corpse hidden inside his chocolate vat, pulling him and his employees into an increasingly dangerous criminal cover-up.
COMPS
Fargo x Barry x Breaking Bad
PRODUCTION PROFILE
Format: One-hour serialized television series
Genre: Dark Crime Comedy / Thriller
Pilot Length: 55 pages
Season Model: 8–10 episodes
Production Scale: Premium cable / streaming
Budget Profile: Moderate — grounded contemporary production with a recurring primary location and limited effects requirements.
Primary Locations: Sweet's Handmade Candy Factory, Ben's home, police station, hospital/medical environments, and surrounding small-town locations.
Core Cast: Ben Sweet, Emery Lorraine, Amelia Smith, Detective Trixie Promo, Matt, Silas Krist
Production Considerations: The candy factory is the series' principal production asset and visual signature. Much of the series can be anchored to this standing location, with its chocolate vats, antique candy-making machinery, production floor, retail space, offices, freezer/storage areas and back alley providing multiple distinct environments within a single facility. Practical effects would handle the show's occasional violence, body disposal and darkly comic candy-related set pieces.
Audience: Adult audiences drawn to dark crime comedy, dysfunctional family drama, serialized mysteries and morally compromised antiheroes.
Series Potential: Designed as an ongoing serialized ensemble in which the central murder cover-up expands into increasingly complicated criminal, familial and financial consequences while the factory remains the gravitational center of the story.
Status: Available
MATERIALS
▶ Trailer 📄 One Sheet 📕 Pitch Deck 📜 Screenplay
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