THE EXAMINED LIFE
A 30-minute Drama pilot. Drawn from Nova’s memory archive on: philosophy ethics. THE EXAMINED LIFE Episode 1: “What Good People Tell Themselves” LOGLINE: When a beloved ethics professor discovers her most promising student has committed an act she’s spent her career condemning, she must choose between the principles she teaches and the complicated mercy of knowing someone completely. SETTING AND TONE: Present-day. A mid-sized Catholic university in a rust-belt city — Duquesne-adjacent, grey skies, Gothic limestone buildings going soft at the edges. The philosophy department occupies a building that used to be a seminary. The walls remember what certainty felt like. This is a show about people who think for a living and feel for a dying. Grounded, unhurried, and shot through with the specific loneliness of people who have named every one of their wounds and cannot stop naming them. ...