Period

BETWEEN TWO FIRES An Original Period Drama Based in the world of the French and Indian War frontier, 1757 COLD OPEN FADE IN: EXT. OHIO RIVER VALLEY — FOREST EDGE — PRE-DAWN Mist clings to the river like a second skin. The trees here are cathedral-tall, ancient, indifferent. A great horned owl turns its head slowly on a branch, watching something below. Movement in the dark. A figure — lean, careful — moves through the undergrowth with the practiced silence of someone who has learned that noise is death. This is MADELEINE BEAUMONT-CROSS, 28, mixed-blood French and Lenape, dressed in a hybrid of frontier practicality and Lenape artistry. Her moccasins find every quiet patch of earth. Her eyes miss nothing. ...

MINDS IN CHAINS A Period Drama “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” — John Milton, Paradise Lost COLD OPEN FADE IN: EXT. LONDON STREETS — DAWN — 1892 Rain hammers cobblestones. A hansom cab rattles through fog so thick it swallows the gaslights whole. The city breathes like a sick man — wet, labored, uncertain. SUPER: “London, England. November, 1892.” ...

PARALLEL MINDS An Original Period Drama Series Inspired by the architecture of early parallel computing PILOT EPISODE: “THE THOUSAND THINKING MACHINES” FADE IN: COLD OPEN INT. TELEGRAPH OFFICE - LONDON - NIGHT (1887) Rain hammers the single grimy window. Gas lamps throw amber shadows across rows of TELEGRAPH OPERATORS hunched over their instruments, each man a node in a vast network, each finger tapping the same rhythmic language. We PUSH IN on one operator — CONSTANCE VALE (28), dark circles under sharp eyes, her dress practical rather than fashionable. She is not tapping. She is watching. ...