One-Hour Dramedy

One year sober after publicly destroying his reputation, an endlessly optimistic Los Angeles mechanic believes he’s finally rebuilt his life. But when the celebrated writer whose career was made from exposing his collapse suddenly reappears, Miles risks everything to reclaim ownership over the story everyone else has been telling about him.

The World:

Los Angeles after the party.

LA remembers everything. Especially the version of you that entertained it most.

Miles at Capacity unfolds between neighborhood auto shops, hillside mansions, rooftop bars, canyon roads, and social circles where identity has become both currency and performance. A city obsessed with reinvention yet rarely permits anyone to actually change.

Tone:

Dark comedy. Psychological drama. Social satire, sure. Equally devastating and hilarious. Emotionally volatile. A series interested in shame, addiction, desire, friendship, ambition, and the strange work of becoming someone new while everyone remembers who used to be.

Why:

Every community decides who someone is long before that person finishes becoming themselves.

Miles at Capacity is interested in the long, uncertain work that follows public disgrace. Once a story has been witnessed, repeated, and consumed, can it ever belong to the person who lived it?

The result is a story about accountability, memory, loneliness, and the possibility of redemption in a culture that remembers performance more readily than change.

Characters:

Miles Luna – One year sober. Desperately determined to reclaim a life that everyone else insists on remembering differently.

Alonso Gomez – A mechanic whose loyalty has become both Miles’s greatest comfort and greatest obstacle.

Gerald Francis – A celebrated author whose intelligence, charisma, and influence have transformed private conflict into public mythology.

Carla Fujoshi – A former Hollywood publicist who understands that reputation isn’t discovered, it is manufactured.

Engine:

At its core, every season of Miles at Capacity asks the same question from a different direction:

Can someone genuinely change after becoming publicly defined by their worst moment?

As Miles rebuilds his life, every step forward forces him back into relationships, institutions, and social circles that still remember who he used to be. Friends become adversaries. Former adversaries become allies. Public scandals evolve into private reckonings. Each season finds a new way to test the distance between who Miles is becoming and who Los Angeles insists he remains.

Themes:

Shame. Reinvention. Reputation. Desire. Addiction. Intimacy. Belonging. Power.

Status:

Script available upon request.