Lance Adams, a mulatto gifted, yet frustrated songwriter, struggles to break free of the drug dealing gang culture in Brooklyn NY, fails forward in being the father he never had, falling in love with a college student who aims to be nothing like her molester, enabling, schizophrenic, prostitute mother.

SYNOPSIS:

Seeds in the Concrete is a drama that offers many views of problems and solutions. It will be, in the strictest intention, an ambitious hope for a drug/gang culture within an American crab in the barrel city, a dog-eat-dog story that exist within the same essence as other urban television fare.

But as the best HBO, Netflix and Starz series, Seeds in the Concrete will be far more than an urban drama, to the extent that it breaks new ground through larger, universal issues that have more to do with the human psychological makeup, the condition of the American culture and our individual thoughts, perceptions and choices that gives us the power of a lesser or greater evolution of our country. Orange is the New Black is rewarding as it stands more than a vulgar comical prison story, when it empathizes with the climax to the choices the characters made that lead them to conviction. The Wire is at it’s best when it rises outside of the body of a cop show, when it shows commonalities between the drug environment, the executive branch and the lingering of our perception of “I might do the same thing if I was in their shoes.” Seeds in the Concrete should not be judged merely as a child of Power or Empire, but a tool for the truths and lies about the American Dream, and the clawing, scratching, sacrificing and intentional rewired mindset that comes with that journey.

The main plot here is a cultural hope: A resilient underdog story set amongst a dysfunctional and indifferent urban circumstance that fail to come to terms with the permanent nature of urban gang/drug culture that is justified with the fear of poverty. Here we will have one that is not exempt from these circumstances, thoughts and mavado, but is singled out by his passion, choices and determined desire for change from mental and environmental imprisonment.

In this intention, Seeds in the Concrete stretches the urban-drama world beyond the rise-to-power through extreme measures for the need to control like Empire, even past the double-life-bending of rules with necessary evil for the better-good theme of Power. Visually, this series will be the future generation of classic urban television fare, making it hard for other urban dramas to deny the differentiated details.

Each character’s story is sowed in the fabric of one common cloth: a rise-and-fall, defeat and triumph from the consequences of decisions of an ambitious marble (main character Lance Adams) who unknowingly shifts the marbles (characters) around him with every move he makes in the jar of life. These marbles are emotionally connected to him in some form or fashion: Loyalty, love, envy, hate, lust, opportunity, obstacle, survival dependence. This marble is made of the same stuff that the great successors of this country is made of, while failing forward, as the viewer blatantly or secretly roots for him as he represents their inner underdog who has the courage to fight, no matter win, lose or draw.

Each season of Seeds in the Concrete will be structured (either ten or twelve episodes) as a partial plot of the journey. Some characters stories will be resolved in a single season for casting growth and some characters will last through each season for continuity. Every season will provide episodes that stand alone as dramatic television and in the same beat the whole must make an empathetic perception of the human psych and national condition, using the street tales of one neighborhood at a micro level.

The style of the show can be called manifesto-realism. There is a focus of self-governed thought, making it ideal to should 4K and stabilized hand held. By using precise geography, a fully conceptualized city and entertainment industry plutocracy should show the risky sacrifice of dream-making, and story developments created from actual events, should present itself as so real that urban melodrama are seen as such empathetic reality. As Piper Kerman’s memoir Orange is the New Black is turned into every other melodrama, so should Seeds in the Concrete’s book turned into a presentation of hyper-realism.)

To be more than a problematic truth and brute honesty in the pursuit of happiness, success and ideal goals, the authenticity of Seeds in the Concrete is meant to provide something bigger. In the first season, the episode seem to start in a quarter of the story to set the tone of violent circumstances that are easily created from a inner-city gang mentality, flashing back to what leads to that point. What will be revealed is the deepest thoughts of the main character’s desire for a change for the better, slowly breaking old habits that are never broken overnight, while he fails towards his success of the whole. But within a brief span of time, Lance is forced to face the frustrating truth of what it takes to succeed, his limitations, what extreme measures must be made, the gang/drug wars and the city as a whole. In the end, the cost of success begins to suggest not so much morality or ethics of overachievement, but rather intentional manifestation woven with synchronicity. At the end of twelve episodes, the reward for the viewer (who has been hooked by a well-structured drama) is not the gratification of knowing the underdog probably will fail until he prevails. Instead, the conclusion will be why he failed, why failure is good and why America is fighting chosen enemies when the real war should be fought against self.

As the seasons progress, just when the viewer thinks the main character is finished, that little hope of resilience will be satisfied. There will be theories of the mental structure of what is the cause of a person’s reality. Because, this show relies on the singular decisions of one character to link every episode to propel the story, more advance details of the cause and effects of other characters has been done more than other dramas.

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