The Mortified Guide
The Mortified Guide is a 6-episode comedic docu-series where adults share their actual teenage diaries, love letters, music and art-- in front of total strangers. Based on the Mortified storytelling project which creates stage shows, books, podcast, TV and film.
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, Reality-TV
Cast:Brooke Stone , Renee Albert , Adam Ruben , Kate Micucci , Jason Ritter , Eden Riegel , Calum Grant , Joshua Farrell , Johanna Stein , Anthony Veneziale , Robert Woo , Jay Cramer , Barbara Ann Duffy , Paul T. Gosselin , Naomi Ko , Kirsten Gronfield , Shawn Hollenbach , Vera Duffy
S1.E1 ∙ The Mortified Guide to Love & Sex Vol. 1
Hormones! Heartbreak! Frenching! Relive your awkward memories of adolescent romance, as adults share their childhood diaries, drawings and beyond with total strangers. Segments include: a teenager in the 1980s writes Bon Jovi fan fiction, a young girl attempts to draw "the birds and the bees;" a teenager in the 1990s attempts to woo his crush using the magic of AOL.
S1.E2 ∙ The Mortified Guide to Family
Family vacations! Sibling Rivalries! Relive your awkward family memories, as adults share their childhood diaries, drawings and beyond with total strangers. Segments include: a boy uses his journal to vent about a summer with his grandmother; an adopted teenager struggles with her identity; twins chronicle two sides of the same event by writing "dueling" diary entries.
S1.E3 ∙ The Mortified Guide to Fitting In
Frenemies! Fashion! Fads! Relive your awkward attempts to fit in as a kid, as adults share their childhood diaries, drawings and beyond with total strangers. Segments include: a misfit teenager writes an epic rant against popularity; a high school jock writes an ambitious musical after losing his friends.
S1.E4 ∙ The Mortified Guide to Growing Up Gay
A comedic look at what it's like growing up queer, closeted or just plain confused, as adults share their awkward childhood diaries, drawings and beyond with total strangers. Segments include: a sheltered teenager seeks advice about sex from an online stranger; a misfit attempts to escapes bullies by drawing an elaborate fantasy world of unicorns.
S1.E5 ∙ The Mortified Guide to Pop Culture
Fan clubs! Boy bands! Relive your your earliest pop culture obsessions, as adults share their childhood diaries, drawings and beyond with total strangers. Segments include: the awkward diary of a teenage Trekkie; the diary of a Backstreet Boys devotee; a teenager's Harry Potter fan fiction.
S1.E6 ∙ The Mortified Guide to Love & Sex Vol. 2
Relive the flirting, fumbling, and awkward infatuations that shaped your adolescence, as adults share more childhood diaries, drawings and beyond with total strangers. Segments include: a lovestruck girl writes a song to serenade a classmate; a devout Christian girl writes diary entries about newfound desires; a teenage boy writes a play about relationships-- despite having never been in one.
