MISERY loves COMPANY
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Executive produced byThe Shade Room
A vertical romcom · Season one · 18 episodes
MISERY loves COMPANY
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Misery Loves Company poster — Kayla vs. Demetris
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EPISODE ONE
the war starts here.
Ep 1 · The Spot 2 min 26 Sound on
the show

A romcom at war with itself.

Misery Loves Company is a vertical romcom — 18 episodes, every one shot for the phone in your hand, every one slamming to black on a cliffhanger.

Kayla is a triple-degreed influencer leading a boycott of all men. Demetris is a Forbes 30-under-30 founder who can't find one thing on this Earth he likes. They are the two most disappointed reviewers on the internet — and they just met over a parking spot.

The universe keeps slamming them together anyway: a coffee-shop robbery, a blind-date dinner, his mother's matchmaking, her father's AI contractor, and one perfectly timed earthquake.

18 episodes Shot 9:16 vertical Cliffhanger every episode
ONE SPOT. 18 episodes.
the co-sign

Executive produced by The Shade Room.

The front page of the culture is behind this one. The Shade Room — 28 million-plus Roommates strong — is executive producing Misery Loves Company and bringing the war straight to your timeline.

That's not a shout-out. That's distribution.

The Shade Room
28.1M
Instagram
the Roommates live here
5.9M
Facebook
and the aunties too
3.3M
TikTok
118.2M likes and counting
786K
YouTube
TSR Live every Thursday
38M+ combined reach
2.
EXT. COFFEE SHOP PARKING LOT — DAY
Kayla

There are unspoken rules in parking lots and you're violating like ten of them right now.

Demetris

You back-in drivers always think the world is supposed to stop because you need to park like you just got finished saving Gotham City.

Kayla

Move. Now.

Demetris

No. Now I HAVE to have this spot. It's the principal.

the setup

One parking spot. Two people who are never wrong.

Kayla runs her life on positive affirmations and a plan. Demetris just got off a long flight and wants his coffee. They meet bumper to bumper outside the same coffee shop — and while they argue over the spot, they miss the actual robbery happening inside.

That's episode one. It gets worse for them. Better for you.

them two

You already know how this ends.
Watch them figure it out.

Kayla
KAYLA
Dr. Kayla Sotherfield. Three degrees, one Teddy Bearista mug, a million followers who agree with everything she says. Backs in.
VS.
Demetris
DEMETRIS
Forbes 30 under 30 and still can't get a date. Private, patient, married to the business. Noses in.
They're also the internet's two most disappointed reviewers. They don't know that yet either.
Catty562
Negative reviewer of the year, 3 years running — dethroned

“This coffee shop just lets anyone come in and stink up the place!”

Yelpstar007
Current negative reviewer of the year — took the crown

“This coffee shop and its CATTY patrons SUCK!”

Posted forty seconds apart, from the same sidewalk. Yelp soulmates.
who's who

The company.

Tameka
TAMEKA
Kayla's best friend
The designated voice of reason. Sees exactly what's happening before anyone else does — and says the line the whole show is named after.
Michelle
MICHELLE
Demetris's mother
Sweet, sharp, fighting an illness, and absolutely done waiting on a daughter-in-law. Accidentally tries to matchmake her son with the one woman who can't stand him.
Riva
RIVA
The placeholder
Beautiful, generous, and agrees with every single thing Demetris says. That's the problem.
Ford
FORD
Demetris's corner
Married, retired from "dat ocean," full of veteran wisdom nobody asked for.
Chris
CHRIS
Demetris's corner
Newly engaged, proudly feminist, already picked out the tux and the kufi. Accidentally introduces Demetris to KaylaK's content.
Shawn
SHAWN
The blind date
He's in acquisitions.
how it unfolds

The universe keeps parking them together.

EP 1
The Spot
One parking spot, two drivers, zero surrender. The war begins.
EP 1–3
The Robbery
The coffee shop gets held up for collectible bear mugs. They fake being a couple to survive it.
EARLY SEASON
The Storytime
Kayla takes the whole thing to her million followers. Demetris finds out he's the villain of a viral video.
EARLY SEASON
Catty562
He hunts down his anonymous Yelp soulmate — the only reviewer as disappointed in everything as he is. It's her.
MID-SEASON
Time Left
A strangers-only dinner. Assigned seats. Guess who's across the table.
MID-SEASON
The Matchmaker
Michelle meets a lovely young woman at the coffee shop and decides she's perfect for her son.
LATE SEASON
The Contractor
Kayla's first meeting of the day is with some AI vendor she plans to destroy. The door opens.
THE FINALE
The Earthquake
LA finally shakes, a door jams, and two people who are never wrong get stuck in one room.
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