A 30-Minute Comedy · Pilot Complete
Four men in the upper Midwest start a men's group to fix their lives. They are not equipped to fix their lives.
Fargo meets Fight Club.
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The Show
THE B.O.G. is a comedy about male loneliness — not as a punchline, but as a genuine epidemic with genuine casualties. These men are not stupid. They are not villains. They are just profoundly unprepared for the interior work of being human, and they keep reaching for the wrong tools.
Every week they mean well. Every week it escalates. Every week, somehow, it works — not because they did it right, but because they did it together.
There are a thousand think pieces about male loneliness. There are almost no comedies that live inside it with honesty and warmth. THE B.O.G. is that comedy.
The Engine
Every episode: one member has a crisis. The group decides to handle it. They handle it wrong — in the most committed, loyal, catastrophic way possible. It resolves. Not cleanly, but truly.
The escalation follows one rule: every step feels like the only logical next step to the men taking it. Nobody decides to do something crazy. The situation becomes crazy through the accumulation of reasonable decisions. That engine does not run out of fuel.
The Guys
Derek
The Founder
Started the group because he had to. The last to realize things have gone sideways.
Nathan
The Therapist Who Needs Therapy
Six books. 107 articles. Zero guardrails once he's off the clock.
Jake
The Alpha
Says he's a dentist. He is not a dentist.
Corey
The Heart
Suspects his wife of everything. Loves her completely.
The show does not believe men are broken. It believes men are lonely — and that loneliness makes them do insane, loyal, costly, hilarious things for each other.
The Creator
Derek Olson is a filmmaker and creative director with 15+ years spanning Hollywood studio production, Disney digital content, and documentary work — production supervisor at Disney's Maker Studios (100M+ view content), producer and cinematographer of Dad Feels (built from zero to 400,000 subscribers), and a Telly Award winner.
THE B.O.G. is written, directed, shot, and finished.
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Telly Award Winner Cast & Crew
The Pilot
"All For One" — 30 minutes, shot and finished.
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