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Light 1984

 Light 1984 is a sitcom adaptation of George Orwell’s 1984, but instead of downtrodden people who accept their fate while hiding any sense that something’s wrong, it’s populated by colorful downtrodden characters who constantly complain about their conditions, like the lovable Winston “Winnie The” Smith, the office worker who just can’t catch a break. 

In a topsy-turvy world where war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength, Winnie just wants to get through one bright cold day in April. But it’s a fuckin’ hassle when Big Brother’s always watching him, and he keeps having to give up his chocolate rations to fight Eurasia or Eastasia, he can never fuckin’ remember.

Winnie has a romantic counterpart in Julie, a co-worker who just can’t get enough sex but might be looking for love. And comic relief comes in the form of the Irishman “Big Red” O’Brien, who will always say “you wanna know about my day, pal? Imagine a boot, stomping on a human face, forever!”

A running sideplot through the series is the battle of two politicians: Manny Goldstein, the Jew you love to hate, and Big Brother, the pain-in-the-ass boss you just have to love in the end. The whole nation is caught up picking sides between the two of them, but, as Winston says “love Big Brother or hate him, I got a shit job at the memory hole and a hallway that smells like cabbage. It’s like 1984 over here!”

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Brooklyn Girls

Brooklyn Girls is a remake of the show Girls that is based in Brooklyn. Everyone speaks with Brooklyn accents and says typical Brooklyn things like “youse guys” and “I’m walkin’ heah!” 

In addition, all the storylines would be adapted to have Brooklyn specifics, such as trucks being offloaded, bodies dumped in rivers, and Coney Island being the only place for amusement. 

It would be fun to explore how the idea of Brooklyn would meet the idea of Girls. For example, characters might say “youse girls” instead of “youse guys.”

I can’t sell this idea myself. You would have to get writer Lena Dunham to sign off on the rights to the original. Whether she wants to remake it with herself and her friends, working with a local Brooklyn crew to get the accents, looks, and new character names right, or to hire a whole new cast of people really from Brooklyn, is a bridge to be crossed at the time at which it is encountered, which is to say, we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.