Half-Hour TV Pilot
If you would like to read the pilot OR VIEW THE PITCH DECK, contact me at matthew.s.starr [at] gmail.com.
The summer of 2004, I went from being 4’11” to being 5’11”.
In one summer. That’s growing about 1” a week.
I felt like I was transforming into an adult.
That said, I wasn’t. I was very much 15 and confused about everything.
The reason I want to tell this story is that as a teenage boy, I wasn’t sex-obsessed. I was love-obsessed.
I was terrified of sex. I was terrified of getting someone pregnant and having to stay in my hometown.
I listened in Health class which basically just showed us pictures of horrific STDs.
Dear god, I can still see them.
I wanted to fall in love. I wanted to see the world.
I wanted to run through the halls of my high school, I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs...anyway.
Late Bloomer is a show about the teenage experience, but really it’s about being comfortable as yourself.
At what point do you learn to love yourself?
Why is growing up so focused on comparisons to our peers?
Also, why are boys made fun of for wanting to fall in love but not for wanting to have sex? It’s fucked up.
Late Bloomer is a show for all of the teenagers who haven’t quite figured out their hair yet.