"Siblings" is an odd-couple comedy TV series set in New York about siblings—an anxiety-riddled aspiring novelist KIRAN (early 30s, white) and his wild younger sister JADE (late 20s, Indian-American) who barrels into his quiet literary life like a punk-rock wrecking ball. While the heart of the show is about their friendship, it’s also a satire on our identity-obsessed culture viewed through the New York literary scene, exploring the themes of identity, ambition, belonging, acceptance, and ultimately family.

SYNOPSIS:

The Story:

Siblings is an odd-couple screwball comedy set in New York about, well, siblings—an anxiety-riddled aspiring novelist (Kiran, early 30s, white) and his wild younger sister (Jade, late 20s, Indian). They don’t exactly like each other and aren’t really related… long story short, Kiran’s biological dad and his Jade’s father were good buddies in the army and Kiran was adopted into Jade’s family after his parents died in a plane crash. When Jade makes a surprise visit to the city and disrupts Kiran’s quiet literary life (unceremoniously by breaking into his apartment with a fire extinguisher), they discover that maybe, just maybe, they kind of like and need each other.

While the heart of the show is about their friendship, it’s also a satire on our identity-obsessed culture viewed through the New York literary scene, exploring the themes of identity, ambition, belonging, acceptance, and ultimately family.

The World:

NYC, a hot mess of a city and the epicenter of the publishing world with a storied history of legendary writers and literary unknowns drinking themselves to death while working on the Great American novel. Series such as “Younger” lampooned the absurd social propriety and youth-obsessed superficiality inside the publishing world. Siblings, in contrast, is a satire set in the NYC lit scene and underground art scene in general… the writers, actors, musicians, artists trumpeting their identities, burnishing their brands, and struggling for relevance in the age of Twitter The world is layered between Jade’s wild adventures in this insane city of money, trash, sex, and chaos, and Kiran’s struggling writer life at the dive bars, theaters, and hole-in-the-wall galleries that the artists call home.

The Tone:

The tone of Siblings is absurdist, necessarily, in the way that New York with its circus of eight-million crazy dreamers can feel totally nuts, but it’s also grounded in the scrappy reality of NYC’s struggling artist world in the vein of “Broad City” and “Master of None”. All the dirty underwear of the city is on display—the rundown apartments, the dingy bars, the body mash of humanity on the subway—juxtaposed with the glitz and glamour of New York.

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