Meet Avery Cost. She's impulsive, slightly immature, easy going and definitely friendly- to the point where it becomes off-putting. She doesn't have a lot of friends, none, actually, and the fact that's she's lesbian doesn't quite help.
Meet the Cost family. Deeply religious, absolute nuts, loud, center of gossip on Pleasant Lane, but ultimately the best family you could ever have.
When Avery meets the people-hater neighbor from across the street, and tries to win the title of best friend, who will triumph ? The girl who has always dreamed of a friend, or the guy who would die if he ever had one?
Mr Sir from 40 Pleasant Lane will have one heck of a roller coaster ride, with harsh jokes, plenty of masses, dangerous sparring, weird texts, and plenty of mugs of hot chocolate!
Geoff and Naomi are dead, and they're depressed, but when Geoff's cat Bernie dies as well, they embark on a wild journey to find it in the underworld.
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When Geoff dies, alongside his girlfriend Naomi, they end up sharing an apartment in the Underworld as skeletons. But after a few years, Geoff starts suffering a mid-death crisis. What's the purpose of going through the motions as a skeleton if you can't really live? Then he gets word that his cat, Bernie, just died and he can collect him and bring him home! Geoff and Naomi hurry to get Bernie only to discover that, due to a clerical error, their cat has been lost. With the hunt for Bernie giving new purpose to Geoff's un-life, he and Naomi begin a quest to get back their cat. Battling skeleton pirates, climbing the sky ladder and facing off against the villain who took Bernie, Geoff is determined to find his purpose - or die a second time trying!
[[2018 Wattys Winner - The Originals]]
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