FAMOUS ASSHOLES

Tara Greene has spent her entire adult life working in the tireless, fruitless, thankless service of Courtney Cox.

Split across two time lines, the ten-episode limited series follows Tara as Courtney’s miserable, harried assistant in the late nineties, and then jumps forward two decades to check in on Tara as the miserable, harried COO of Courtney’s production company in the present day. The past time line chronicles the many lavish abuses and indignities that Tara is forced to endure as Courtney Cox’s assistant as she struggles in vain to realise her true dream of becoming a star herself. Courtney, though at this point, immensely famous and rich, alternates between feeling utterly invincible and deeply insecure over her seeming inability to break through to the ultra-elite, tippy-toppest tier of stardom. 

The present time line explores why and how Tara ended up staying in this toxic dynamic with Courtney: a job that has robbed her of her innocence, her youth, and most of all, her sense of hope. Courtney, now nearly two decades removed from the height of her fame has become obsessed with not only recapturing her past glory, but eclipsing it with a spectacular third act as an entrepreneur, investor, and Hollywood power broker — and Tara, now the “COO” of her “production company” (an assistant by any other name), is the person charged with making that happen. But just when it seems that Tara will be forever consigned to live a glancing, hollow life toiling fruitlessly in the shadow of her famous employer, a shocking indiscretion from her past comes to light, and against all odds, offers her a path toward the life that she has always wanted: a life that is fully and undeniably her own.