Andrew Nicholls

Judy, a theatrical 70-ish academic and author who fears her extraordinary memory and wit are fading, summons three notable period poets to advise her, each in their own style, on how to face a dreaded social worker "competence visit."

Impulsive Bob Siller tests the patience of everyone in his life, particularly his long-suffering Public Defender wife Mindy, when he announces he's quitting his job at his father-in-law's accounting firm to open a record store.

Teen English major/poet Marcus invites math whiz Selena to join him on the school stage for what she expects will be questions about her rejecting him at a party. Instead, he asks her to guess if he can duct-tape two ladders end-to-end, balance them in a pair of ski boots, then climb them with a stool and sit on top.
The proposal isn't quite what it first appears to be. It will be staged twice again, with variations: First, at a University, as Selena defends her thesis in Probability to an Advisor who has designs on her. Finally, Marcus and Selena, claiming to be married, present the ladder question to an exec in the 3D scanning room of a tech startup which has cut Selena out of her shares.

In a blissfully happy, painfully innocent town in the Mojave desert, citizens go about their lives and loves, unaware that a blob-like alien, implanted in the breasts of the townswomen decades ago by a mad plastic surgeon, has been using his female slaves to rebuild his crashed spaceship... and eyeing the upcoming high school dance as a last big meal before his trip home. It's up to the plucky teenage couple Dab Lipp and Lissa Llewellyn, aspiring security guards, to head off the carnivorous monster's rampage.

When three millennials meet by accident they discover none of their jobs are real; they've been manufactured by their parents to get them out of the house. The furious kids force a confrontation with their parents, which gradually reveals a more devastating secret.

Two conference-bound physicists, set to debate the parity of the universe, meet in a Swiss train hallway, where each is by a set of ridiculous coincidences unable to pass the other. As Daniel and Bronwen shuffle and spar, the situation turns haltingly romantic.
A world away, in California, Daniel’s manipulative twin brother makes an unusual proposal to the woman he loves, setting up a parallel showdown between love and logic that will reverberate over 18 years.

Three men, kidnapped and locked in a windowless room, try to figure out why they were taken, and why they are being asked one seemingly random question every day.

After improv student Ellie makes up a “plausible excuse” for her husband being late for work, she and Craig have to elaborate on Ellie’s improbable tale when they host the boss and her wife for dinner.