Bloody Bay

One secret, one baby, one boat, four 50-somethings, competing agendas: a perfect trap – no refunds.

Kate secretly uses best friend Marta's eggs for IVF. Husband Greg (Marta's ex) sells all for boat—oblivious. 9 months on—two couples on 48-foot boat trap: clashing needs, explosive secret and—baby Zeus. Coming of age at 50: spectacularly undignified

Main production country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Producer's note

As creative producer and writer based between Greece and the UK, I've developed Bloody Bay as an organically European project, designed with multi-national casting and pan-European resonance built into its DNA— culturally specific but thematically borderless, reflecting the messy universality of midlife reckoning regardless of passport.

Screenwiter's note

Why the f*** me? Just like one of my characters—too proud to beg, too practical to starve, too principled to prostitute talent completely—I pick themes I can feel under my skin, mining my own midlife reckoning and those of my closest friends with shameless audacity. Current comedy-drama either skewers wealth or romanticizes dysfunction. Bloody Bay sits in the gap: four fifty-somethings too broke for White Lotus, too self- aware for sentimentality, careening through midlife on a cocktail of defiance, disappointment, and the last fumes of ambition. It's a confined domestic pressure cooker that happens to be on water—offering the sophisticated midlife reckoning missing from current landscape. Nobody's ready for midlife. Watching others try? That's entertainment. And a cautionary tale.
Subjects:
satire, fatherhood, interpersonal relationships, familial relationships, motherhood, friendship, self realisation, coming of age