The House

The House is about family man Ryan Nelson. He has a wife and two children, a good job and great friends but a dark secret. He has two people imprisoned in a house that no-one knows about. Prisoners Daisy and Robert are taken care of, fed, watered and treated very well but are unable to leave their prison house. Ryan provides them with entertainment and leisure activities but no means to communicate with the outside world. He visits them regularly to service their needs and talk. The House explores why he has them imprisoned, how long they have been there and if they will ever get out. As the series continues Ryan will start to make mistakes and his secret will start to unravel. Ryan is a very particular person. He takes his secret very seriously and protects it at all costs; he has taken a lot of precautions to keep it safe. He has a storage unit that nobody knows about; full of supplies for his secret prison house. From the pilot episode we start to see that his secret will come out eventually. Flash forward scenes will show police interviews with people he has interacted with. This will provide a clue that his luck with change. Ryan’s wife, family and friends have no idea what he does when he leaves the house for work in the morning. As the story develops, people close to him will start to see him in places he normally isn’t and start to question him. The secret will start to come out and he will have to take action to keep it safe. The show will see how long Daisy and Robert have been imprisoned for and why he captured them. We will also see what happened to the police investigation when they were reported missing and if anyone is still looking for them. GENRE/STYLE The House is a drama series set in modern day America. It will be very character and story driven like Desperate Housewives was. It will focus heavily on Ryan, how he hides his secret and why he’s doing it. Others will start to uncover what he is doing and get an insight in to his second life. There will also be a focus on Daisy and Robert and how they deal with their new lives. Flashbacks will help show their history and how this all started. The show will be similar to Room and how they deal with their imprisonment and the confinement. The suburban style of the show will share similarities with Desperate Housewives; how close neighbourhoods are but also how many secrets everyone holds. Each episode will have an individual goal and story which will link together in an overall season arc. Most of the episodes will end on a cliff hanger. Backstories/flashbacks will be explored as the show develops to give context and background to the characters and how they deal with their situations. This will enable us to see how the captees became and why Ryan is doing this.