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Parenthood-esque dramedy pilot. 

 

Logline: A control-freak dairy farming wife and mother of six faces her troubled past and challenging present in therapy, as she deals with a high-risk pregnancy and the looming threat of being unable to control her teenage children's lives.

 

Synopsis: 

Jenny Talbot is not your typical momly mom. And her back-story is definitely not like that of most Catholic housewives. But then, you might guess that by her tattoos.

 

Jenny grew up on a dairy farm with her grandfather, (whom she affectionately refers to as the Coldest Swiss Immigrant Alive). She was essentially all alone, with only the cows and the endless fields to keep her company and break her heart with their beauty... So she became a partier as a teenager, searching for escape. She even lost her virginity to some loser at age 16, and his name became her first tattoo (in an unmentionable place – which she's been known to mention on occasion).

 

Somewhere between then and now, Adam happened. Adam, the great love story of her life.

 

The two of them got married, with her aging Grampy agreeing to let Adam take over the farm, despite Adam's former plans of veterinary school. And precisely nine months after their wedding night, their oldest son Anthony entered the world. Eleven months later, along came Rosie.

 

But this was okay, because they were happy. Ridiculously so. In Jenny's case, it was all a dream come true. Because she finally had a family.

 

So they had more family. And more. Six kids living (plus two recent miscarriages). And she holds on tight. She wants her kids to have the best, most amazing, beautiful, and pure home-life and adolescence they possibly can. She wants more than anything to shield them from the type of sadness and decadence that marked her own youth.

 

At this point in Jenny's life, at age 38, it seems like this might be it. Despite her and Adam continuing to have a wonderful sex life, their youngest living kid is 9. Since her two miscarriages (whose heart-breakingness she's still in a bit of denial over...), they haven't conceived.

 

But then, out of the blue, two pink lines show up. What they thought the rest of their life would look like shifts, and the two of them joyously change their plans, amidst worries over another miscarriage, ever-present criticism from Jenny's grandfather, and a suffocating, worst-time-ever-to-be-a-farmer economy.

 

In all this, Jenny is holding steadfast to the conviction that she can control it all, including the behavior of her teenaged children. If anyone can pigheadedly keep them on the straight and narrow through life, it's her. But even she might have to come to grips with the fact that there are some things she can't control.