Book of Jeb
An irreverent comedic legal drama about a straight-laced Mormon trademark attorney who goes to work for a global porn conglomerate to win back his family law firm.
When his unscrupulous late father leaves the family law practice to his secret polygamist wife, a straight-laced Mormon trademark attorney finds a bold solution: he goes to work for a global porn conglomerate to earn enough cash to buy the firm back.
Salt Lake City. Early 2000s. Jeb Jensen is a conservative Mormon trademark lawyer, wielding statutes and sermons in the courtroom like a smut-fighting caped crusader.
Two states over, the adult film industry is exploding. Pornographer Flint Stone comes to Salt Lake to lure Jeb into his underworld. Jeb initially refuses, but after his father’s scandalous death threatens his control of the family firm, Jeb joins Flint in what he believes is only a temporary compromise.
Religious conservatism meets the seedy San Fernando Valley.
The Pilot
Faith, law, and leverage
Jeb wins a courtroom battle against Flint, then gets an offer to switch sides.
Jeb Jensen defeats Flint Stone in a trademark infringement case involving Flint’s pun-filled adult series. Flint is impressed and offers Jeb a fortune to work for him. Jeb refuses.
That night, Joseph Jensen dies in a tryst with his secret second wife, Johanna Bates. Joseph leaves the family law firm to Johanna, who threatens to sell it for fifty million dollars unless Jeb falls in line. Jeb and Dom Porcelli buy time, then take the only client with pockets deep enough to help them: Flint.
The first case forces Jeb to find a legal and moral solution involving Georgia Peaches, a legitimate intellectual property claim, and a newly created battered women’s shelter.
The Characters
Good people, bad roomsJeb Jensen
Internationally recognized trademark lawyer, family man, LDS leader, Yale law graduate, and legal Boy Scout. Loyalty drives him. His need for his father’s approval wounds him.
Dom Porcelli
Contract lawyer and litigation expert, Jeb’s only non-Mormon friend, and the sarcastic muscle who can work the angles Jeb will not touch.
Flint Stone
CEO of InColor Entertainment. Foul-mouthed, greedy, uncouth, and surprisingly honorable when honor happens to align with money.
Johanna Bates
A billboard-plastering Salt Lake attorney and Joseph Jensen’s secret second wife. She wants wealth to become legitimacy.
Georgia Peaches
An adult film star with sharp business instincts and more agency than anyone initially expects. She wants to be respected.
Marian Jensen
The backbone of the Jensen family, soft but fierce, principled, and determined to protect her marriage and children.
The tone is irreverent comedy: funny but serious, sarcastic, naughty, honest, and surprisingly sweet. Each episode challenges sexual and religious norms while Jeb tries to do the right thing inside the wrongest possible industry.
The engine is legal case of the week plus serialized moral collapse: Jeb’s marriage, faith, client work, and self-image all collide.
Law, money, religion, and reputation move through the same hallway.
Season Arcs
Three-season journey
Season One — Faith
Jeb and Dom work Flint’s cases while trying to preserve their ethics and Jeb’s standing in the church. A season-long investigation reveals that the church is tied to exploitation through Porn Corner, and the cliffhanger reveals Jeb’s father was part of the connection.
Season Two — Losing My Religion
Four years later, Jeb has left the church, lost his marriage, and gone fully into the adult industry. He is successful but spiritually hollow, and must discover who he is without his father, his church, or the old firm defining him.
Season Three — Redemption
Jeb leaves the adult industry, returns to Salt Lake, and runs for governor against the Mormon candidate. He loses the election but gets his life, family, and moral compass back.
No one’s opinion or judgment, family, church, or citizens of the world, matters as much as what kind of man you yourself want to be.
Format: Television — 1-Hour Irreverent Comedy Drama
Structure: 3-Season Arc
Target: Premium Cable / Streaming
Setting: Salt Lake City / Los Angeles — Early 2000s
Status: Script and series bible available upon request
Gilda Hauser Porcari
Screenwriter and voice actor.
Gilda Hauser Porcari grew up a fish out of water in the Great Lakes, the quiet middle child in a chaotic family. She began in finance, became a stand-up comic and improv actor trained at Second City, and was the voice behind many iconic voiceovers in the 2000s.
Her writing has placed in major competitions, including Austin Film Festival, Chicago Screenplay Awards, and the ScreenCraft Drama Pilot competition. She has studied with Jen Grisanti and Joan Lane, producer of The King’s Speech.
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