Cock Block

Last night we were watching 'Big Love' (the plural-marriage drama on HBO), which is pretty good BTW. I started thinking about the high-quality dramas on HBO and Showtime (Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Big Love, Deadwood, Carnivale etc) and I had an idea for a new show:

The series centers around a middle-aged couple, their elderly parents and their adolescent children living a lifestyle that is at once alternative and mainstream. Every week, the characters find themselves embroiled in existential angst as the balance the often conflicting priorities of family, business and community and engage in a series of minorly self-destructive stress-relieving behaviors.

The catch is that their background changes every week. Sometimes they're in the mob. Other times they're running a funeral home. Sometimes they're astronauts or circus performers or medical professionals. Cops. Firefighters. High school teachers. Hill people.

But the themes every week are the same: sexual frustration, generalized dissatisfaction, brooding resentment.

It's called 'Cock Block.' Tune in this week to see how the cock gets blocked!