YU2022++

A modern young dystopian serial starring four guys born in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000. All living away from home ~Canada 🇨🇦~ Together ‼️ In the Big Apple 🍎 NYC 🇺🇸

This small play was inspired by watching Bladerunner too many times when I was 19 going on 20, just graduating from high school coupled with Covid19 hitting planet earth in the YOOL 2020**

FADE IN:

It’s 2022 and four young men are becoming adult in the 2020’s with the COVID19 Reality Project in full swing, it has its share of ups and downs ✅

Wherein SAM, WILLIS, GARY and TODD are sharing a large flat in SoHo, NYC.

It’s their second year living together in their community (home) 🏡.

SAM started his dance training in Montreal, Canada and is an aspiring up and coming dancer 🕺🏽.

WILLIS spent his childhood playing with Rubics Cubes and is in 3rd yr studying Cryptography 🔐.

GARY is a boxer and part time Genome 🧬 scientist who hopes to become a pro personal coach.

TODD is already half way through his masters in Cybercrime and secretly is aspiring to become a novelist 📚.

INT.

Act I Scene 1

FADE IN:

“All is unfolding as it should: A wise person whispered:

And I Love It” 🥰😘

SAM had just finished his tango lessons and was bummed out because he had to do a big load of dance laundry when he got home that evening.

Would Willis be there hogging the machines like last time he wondered❓🤔

Living with three other guys in down town SoHo is fun but then there is the utter reality of communal living. 🤪

I like cooking, laundry is my least favourite chore not only that —I hate when the washing machine breaks down. 😫

The slum landlord refuses to repair things forever. I mean why would he, living in the Republic of China and owning so many tenements in SoHo NYC —in fact too many to count, come to think of it! 😳

I send emails requesting maintenance, it usually takes minimum 3 months to answer so the four of us make do with the broken down appliances most of the time. 😔

INT. FLAT IN SOHO NYC USA 🇺🇸

SAM: Hey Willis —

WILLIS: Sam, where the f**k were you today when I needed you man

SAM: What’s happened now ❓

WILLIS: I was fixing a burner on the stove and then the washing machine freaked out on me again ‼️

SAM: Ah man not again, I hate this s**t

WILLIS: Look it’s not my fault okay I put in a small amount like you told me, um I think 10 socks, 3 underwear, only 1 shirt .... and oh crap 💩

SAM: What ❓‼️

WILLIS: I think 🤔 I know what it was that screwed up the machine ....

SAM: Don’t tell me you put those shoe laces in there again, man are you brain 🧠 dead or what❓

WILLIS: Sam I’m sorry 😐 but I like my shoes really white you know, it’s a thing that helps me feel better about myself

SAM: Phfft ... whatever But I’m telling you the machine is going to blow up if you keep doing that. And none of us have the extra cash to fix the damn thing .... that’s it, —I’m done 👌🏽 You fix it next ‼️

WILLIS: Uh .... will you help just a little ....

SAM: Fine, last time dude.

WILLIS: Thanks man, really appreciate it‼️

SAM: [Sigh 😔]

INT. LIVING ROOM OF SOHO APARTMENT

GARY and TODD arrive home enter with groceries in paper bagS.

GARY: Sam did you pick up that screwdriver from Home-hardware?

SAM: Hello to you too Gary 🙌🏽

GARY: Was your day nice .... did you make it to dance class on time ❓

SAM: Actually no —okay I went to the Home-hardware first to look for the screwdriver you asked me to pick up. Then the subway 🚇 was stuck in the tunnel again and I had to sprint to the Hepner building.

By the time that last century elevator arrived on the ninth floor everyone had picked their partners already, should I go on ‼️❓

GARY: Nah, don’t bother, I heard this story already 🤪

TODD: Come on guys, shut up 🤐 my head is killing me.

WILLIS: What up with you Dude❓

TODD: Another migraine, second one in four weeks, gotta go see Stafonovitz really 🔜 can’t take it any more 🥵

WILLIS: I thought 💭 you were taking that homeopathic medicine that was helping 😦

TODD: I think 🤔 I convinced myself it’s a placebo. I just can’t stand those Tylenol Codeine pills 💊 they give me nightmares and by mid afternoon I feel like vomiting 🤮

Then all I want to do is sleep 😴 after that. Believe me, it doesn’t bode well when there is nowhere to sit or lie down in the SUB.

GARY: Bode well —Suck it up big boy and join in with the Covid19 Reality Project won’t ya‼️🤣

SAM: Look 👀 remember we agreed last night at our community meeting that we are not going to talk about the Covid19 Reality Project.... here at home 🏡 ‼️

WILLIS: Ditto

GARY: C-19RP ... P P P

TODD: I’m done ✅ going to bed 🛌 good night all

EXT. TODD RETIRES TO HIS ROOM

SAM: Goodnight Todd

WILLIS: Goodnight, feel better tomorrow

SAM: Gary — WTF 🤬 go back to your gym man and stay there.

GARY: Ah settle down my little dancing man 🕺🏽 Just trying to have a laugh 😂

SAM: R E S P E C T for the brother, he’s hurting 😟

WILLIS: I’ll say this only one time: When I saw the IT A sighting at 46th and 5th Streets today —I chose not to report it.

GARY: C-19RP .... Celebrate the Smart Dust ‼️ You only get one chance to NOT report a sighting

WILLIS: Yah—I know 😣

SAM: Ok Please, keep your thoughts to yourself I’m trying to visualize the choreography from the last tango we did ....

GARY: Last Tango 🤣 I get it Sam, oh s**t you’re funny 😆

SAM: Huh 🤔 I’m serious You guys are making a racket, see you in the morning.

EXT. SAM LEAVES RETIRES TO HIS ROOM

WILLIS: Gary❓ What am I gonna do if I have a second sighting❓

GARY: Just do what I said.

WILLIS: What if I get it wrong 😑 and I mess up the RNA data code again....

GARY: Settle down now, just use that template I sent to your Cloud ☁️ Do you recall the tag?

WILLIS: Uh 😐.... RNA 18-14-01-19-20 with a matrix of 01.00.01 / compound / R-B ....

GARY: Right on ‼️ See you got it already

WILLIS: Yeah but I always forget the Host Serial Port Number

GARY: Well that’s cuz your head is overflowing with Crypto ....

WILLIS: Hey 👋🏽 I try 🤓

GARY: I’ll give you a clue: Happy Birthday to YOU Happy Birthday to YOU Happy Birthday 🥳 Dear Willis Happy Birthday to Y. O. U.

WILLIS: Me, Right I’m the HOST ‼️❓❓🧬 Oh my god, I can’t remember My own Serial Port Number SPN

GARY: Don’t be an idiot. Remember when we got the Vaccine in 2021 THEY said if you can’t remember your Personal Serial Port Number PSPN you can call 1-800-COVID-19 and speak 🗣 to a CUSTOMER SERVICE Ambassador at the GREAT RESET BUREAU GRB.

They are always so helpful there. I only had to do it once and I was good to go, no more failing memory.

WILLIS: Uh 😒 ok 👌🏽 Thanks GARY, yeah — but I’m afraid 😱

GARY: Of what ‼️❓

WILLIS: That they’ll discontinue me....

GARY: Stop 🛑 You know I got this ❓ Right ⁉️

WILLIS: I dunno know —Yeah Yeah Your the Genome Guy I trust you, for now …

EXT. FADE - NIGHT

To be continued