Sugar
Drama Series - Script
Sugar tells the story of an English professor, who after the unexpected death of her husband, returns home to New York, broke and disillusioned, only to discover her family is also broke and disillusioned. Out of moves, she trades in grading papers for dating sugar daddies.
Sexy Kat O'Connor, in her early fifties, is a professor and writer who lives in Tucson, Arizona. After David her husband dies unexpectedly, Kat returns home to New York to help her father who has placed her mother in an Alzheimer’s care facility.
Unwillingly, she steps into the uncomfortable role of parenting Tom and quickly learns that the bank is about to take the family apartment and restaurant. Kat also has to come to terms with her own financial issues. She is still paying back David’s business partner for their many failed ventures. Out of desperation, she takes a job as an adjunct instructor and a waitress at a diner.
Obviously, Kat is at a professional crossroads. Early in her writing career she experienced success. Her first book of poetry was a National Book Award winner and two of her plays had runs in a regional Chicago theater. However, she put David’s career before hers, and stopped writing because one of them needed a real job. She hoped that returning to New York meant she could reimagine her life as a writer.
While at the grocery store, Kat overhears two men talking about a “sugar” dating site and she’s intrigued. That night she creates a dating profile under the username, Sugar, and hopes to find a widower in his eighties who wants to hold her hand while they take slow walks along the Hudson. No such luck: She is contacted by "Boredstiff,” who’s married, and wants the combo deal: companionship and sex.
Kat’s conflicted: Is this prostitution or is this simply a friend helping a friend? Also, he’s married, which she can’t overlook so she tells him thanks, but no thanks despite the fact that she quit the diner gig and wonders how long it will be until her family is on the street.
And if life weren’t complicated enough, Kat's brother, Mark shows up with his daughter, Chivonne—fiesty, witty and twelve. Mark announces he’s having a mid-life crisis and runs off to India with a woman half his age leaving Kat in charge of Tom and Chivonne. Never one to like or trust children, Kat soon discovers a bond with Chivonne that surprises and tests her emotionally.
In a confrontation at the restaurant, Kat demands that Tom step up and help. They hear a noise in the dining room and discover two burly men carrying away the furniture. The bank’s foreclosure has begun. After much ado, Kat convinces them to wait. She contacts Boredstiff and he’s more than eager to help. Shocked that she’s allowed this stranger into her world, she also feels oddly relieved as she hopes he will help and support her more than her family is able to.
Unwillingly, she steps into the uncomfortable role of parenting Tom and quickly learns that the bank is about to take the family apartment and restaurant. Kat also has to come to terms with her own financial issues. She is still paying back David’s business partner for their many failed ventures. Out of desperation, she takes a job as an adjunct instructor and a waitress at a diner.
Obviously, Kat is at a professional crossroads. Early in her writing career she experienced success. Her first book of poetry was a National Book Award winner and two of her plays had runs in a regional Chicago theater. However, she put David’s career before hers, and stopped writing because one of them needed a real job. She hoped that returning to New York meant she could reimagine her life as a writer.
While at the grocery store, Kat overhears two men talking about a “sugar” dating site and she’s intrigued. That night she creates a dating profile under the username, Sugar, and hopes to find a widower in his eighties who wants to hold her hand while they take slow walks along the Hudson. No such luck: She is contacted by "Boredstiff,” who’s married, and wants the combo deal: companionship and sex.
Kat’s conflicted: Is this prostitution or is this simply a friend helping a friend? Also, he’s married, which she can’t overlook so she tells him thanks, but no thanks despite the fact that she quit the diner gig and wonders how long it will be until her family is on the street.
And if life weren’t complicated enough, Kat's brother, Mark shows up with his daughter, Chivonne—fiesty, witty and twelve. Mark announces he’s having a mid-life crisis and runs off to India with a woman half his age leaving Kat in charge of Tom and Chivonne. Never one to like or trust children, Kat soon discovers a bond with Chivonne that surprises and tests her emotionally.
In a confrontation at the restaurant, Kat demands that Tom step up and help. They hear a noise in the dining room and discover two burly men carrying away the furniture. The bank’s foreclosure has begun. After much ado, Kat convinces them to wait. She contacts Boredstiff and he’s more than eager to help. Shocked that she’s allowed this stranger into her world, she also feels oddly relieved as she hopes he will help and support her more than her family is able to.
