EMIlY IS
A MAGNET FOR MIRACLES
A magical comedy series
The universe has granted miraculous powers to the most unlikely, unqualified woman in L.A. It may soon come to regret it.
Emily, a broke, menopausal, out-of-work actress, single mom, and lovable disaster, is granted miraculous powers by the universe. Now the least qualified woman imaginable must wield them without making her already disastrous life worse and face the one miracle she can’t manifest: belief in herself.
The Series
EMILY IS A MAGNET FOR MIRACLES is being independently produced as a short-form Instagram series.
Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles is being independently produced as a short-form Instagram series. This first season is also the beginning of a larger television property.
Grounded, intimate, and deeply funny, the series lives in the tonal world of Enlightened, Somebody Somewhere, Better Things, and Doll & Em. Its comedy comes from recognizable human behavior, emotional need, terrible judgment, and Emily’s inability to leave an uncomfortable situation alone.
The magic expands the story without changing its emotional reality.
Why This Story
Midlife Women On Screen
Women in our fifties rarely see ourselves reflected in film and television. At the very moment our lives are becoming more complicated, more precarious, and frankly, more interesting, we’re largely disappearing from the screen.
And when midlife women do appear, we rarely get to be this messy, funny, lost, sexual, overwhelmed, and still becoming.
Emily Is a Magnet for Miracles puts one of those women at the center of the story: a woman performing adulthood, parenthood, and success while privately having no idea how to hold any of it together.
This magical comedy explores what happens when the universe believes in a woman before she believes in herself.
Who It’s About
Meet Emily Wilder
Emily Wilder is a menopausal single mother in her mid-fifties living on the edge of survival. Once a working actress, she hasn’t worked in years. She now gets by on unemployment, an EBT card, dwindling residual checks, and whatever odd jobs she can find.
Emily is a people-pleasing, lovable disaster. She genuinely tries to do the right thing, then says too much, crosses a boundary, or makes everything substantially worse in her frantic attempt to make it better.
Every day is an increasingly unconvincing performance of adulthood, parenthood, success, and basic human functioning.
Her social media presence is the best performance of her career.
Inside the frame: health, wellness, gratitude, and alignment.
Just outside the frame, her life is a complete train wreck.
She posts for friends, acquaintances, and the people who happen to watch, but she is hardly a social media star. She is simply doing everything she can to remain visible and convince herself, along with everyone else, that her life is still capable of changing.
About the Project
Why This Story
For years, Emily has tried to manifest a better life. She reads the books, fills out the journals, listens to the podcasts, repeats the mantras, and makes the vision boards.
Literally nothing has worked.
Then something magical happens.
Emily discovers that she has been granted the power to create small miracles. At first, the power is completely unpredictable. She has no idea why she was chosen, how to summon it, what its limits are, or what might happen when she tries to use it.
More importantly, receiving a spiritual gift does not inspire a spiritual awakening. Emily remains exactly the same person she was before: broke, overwhelmed, impulsive, desperate to be liked, and entirely unequipped to carry supernatural power responsibly.
What she does have is a lightbulb moment.
She needs money.
Emily changes her Instagram bio, declares herself a manifestation expert, and begins capitalizing on a gift she barely understands.
People believe her.
They bring her their problems, their money, and their faith.
As her audience grows from followers into believers, a woman who cannot manage her own life becomes the most unlikely spiritual leader imaginable and, eventually, the head of something that looks increasingly like a cult.
As Emily sets out to monetize the miracles, the gift begins demanding something from her. She has to learn how to carry it, take responsibility for what it creates, and grow into the person everyone else believes she is.
The universe has given Emily undeniable proof that it believes in her. Strangers begin believing in her too. Her deeper journey is learning to recognize the power and value in herself without needing the universe, her followers, or the miracles to prove it.
Belief in herself may be the one miracle Emily cannot manifest on command.