THIS COULD BE YOU: A trailblazing law firm partner has been assigned a mentee by her firm’s diversity committee guy, but she would love to switch to someone else, anyone else. An aspiring comic’s teacher’s brother is keen to give her advice and “opportunities.” What makes a good mentor? A good mentee? When does mentorship become dangerous? THIS COULD BE YOU grabs the warm and fuzzy idea of mentorship by the lapels, turns it upside down, and collects the dirty change that falls out of its finely lined pockets.
DANCE MOMS: It’s heady times for the Slotted Spoons, a dance troupe of four late-middle-aged moms. The mayor’s retirement celebration will be the biggest show of their lives, but the moms need a new choreographer, and they need one fast. Fortune upon fortunes, their fearless leader, Jenny Hu, has secured the services of an exquisitely, hauntingly, unconventional young woman named India (no relation to the country) who soon has the Spoons whipped up into some kind of a… a… well, it’s not a dance, exactly? There’s a lot of soul-baring. Maybe too much. And a huge bag of what they’re told is just sweet, sweet, candy.
OUR LAST BIRTHDAYS: A man speaks to children from his computer, throwing a birthday party for his young viewership. But the sky outside is a funny color, there is water everywhere, and there is something very important he needs to teach them before he is–
BASKIN ROBBINS AT A MALL: Just two people closing down a Baskin Robbins at a mall for the night.
NECTARINE GIRL: Just two people waiting for a ghostly young mother’s 7th annual visit to their bakery to buy seven sweet and delicious nectarines.