6 x 22 short form comedy live-action (development)
A Canadian story about Shauna the head lifeguard at the local rec centre. Your local rec centre.
A Canadian story about Shauna the head lifeguard at the local rec centre. Your local rec centre.
It’s been two years since Shauna Stamper started on anti-depressants. A year since her boyfriend committed suicide. 20 years since she broke her spine which ended her career as a star gymnast destined for Olympic glory. You’d think that’d be a downer. Sure, it was at the time. How do you sleep sitting up with a metal halo screwed into your skull? You don’t. But Shauna isn’t one to dwell, isn’t one to complain. That may be the meds talking.
Swim trials for the local Wild Bobcat Tiger Seals swim team are three weeks away and Beatrice, Shauna’s daughter, is pushing hard. Shauna is training a gaggle of new lifeguards and has her quarterly physical endurance review coming up, god damn still at 48 she has to do this shit. Beatrice has her eye on Cole, the new lifeguard and Olympic swim hopeful, and Cole has his eyes on her but neither will say it. They look up each other’s score numbers and flirt by talking to each other about them.
Normal everyday stuff at the rec centre, but it’s going to become a crime scene soon when a couple of teens do a drug deal and accidentally slip something in to Thomas the regular’s gym bag.
Shauna is called back to the therapist's office when it appears that she’s starting to crack. It’s mandatory Joshua the teen manager says, grief counseling after such a loss only a year ago, is necessary if you’re in charge of so many lives.
Old men hit on young lifeguards, patrons have to be removed for getting too familiar with the hot tub jets, poo in the pool, complaints of why are the showers so cold, why are the showers so hot. The office filled with more surgery snacks, baked goods and treats than a Dollerama.
It is all just a bit much sometimes. But the 12 hour days keeps Shauna focused and surrounded by her friends. It’s fine, right?
On top of it all Shauna has just found out the person who was responsible for her spinal injury that derailed her whole life has won the lottery.
Swim trials for the local Wild Bobcat Tiger Seals swim team are three weeks away and Beatrice, Shauna’s daughter, is pushing hard. Shauna is training a gaggle of new lifeguards and has her quarterly physical endurance review coming up, god damn still at 48 she has to do this shit. Beatrice has her eye on Cole, the new lifeguard and Olympic swim hopeful, and Cole has his eyes on her but neither will say it. They look up each other’s score numbers and flirt by talking to each other about them.
Normal everyday stuff at the rec centre, but it’s going to become a crime scene soon when a couple of teens do a drug deal and accidentally slip something in to Thomas the regular’s gym bag.
Shauna is called back to the therapist's office when it appears that she’s starting to crack. It’s mandatory Joshua the teen manager says, grief counseling after such a loss only a year ago, is necessary if you’re in charge of so many lives.
Old men hit on young lifeguards, patrons have to be removed for getting too familiar with the hot tub jets, poo in the pool, complaints of why are the showers so cold, why are the showers so hot. The office filled with more surgery snacks, baked goods and treats than a Dollerama.
It is all just a bit much sometimes. But the 12 hour days keeps Shauna focused and surrounded by her friends. It’s fine, right?
On top of it all Shauna has just found out the person who was responsible for her spinal injury that derailed her whole life has won the lottery.