Tonight on ABC Selfie airs with an all new Tuesday September 30, season 1 premiere episode called, “Pilot.” On tonight’s episode, a self-obsessed pharmaceutical sales rep who is megapopular on social media needs help making friends and being liked in real life, and so she turns to a marketing genius for tutelage in the series premiere of this modern take on “My Fair Lady.”
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the show, “Instafamous” Eliza Dooley (Karen Gillan) has 263,000 followers who hang on to her every post, tweet and selfie. But one lonely day, she has a revelation: being friended is not the same as having actual friends. She asks marketing guru Henry (John Cho) to ‘rebrand’ her self-obsessed reputation and teach her how to connect with people in the real world. Loosely based on “My Fair Lady,” “Selfie” explores the modern struggles of Eliza and Henry, as he tries to teach her how to live life offline – whether she ‘likes’ it or not.
On tonight’s episode, Social Media superstar Eliza Dooley has 263,000 followers who hang on to her every post, tweet and selfie. But after a workplace mishap goes viral, she quickly realizes that being “instafamous” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and being friended is not the same as having actual friends. She enlists co-worker and marketing guru, Henry, to ‘rebrand’ her self-obsessed reputation and teach her how to connect with people in the real world, whether she ‘likes’ it or not.
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When she was young, Eliza didn’t have many friends. She was ugly and a loser, until years later she was able to make herself over and is now Instafamous, with 263,000 followers. The opening scene shows coworkers talking about her self-obsessed ways, including hitting on a married coworker. She throws herself at him on the plane, only to discover the tan line from his wedding ring. She vomits in paper bags, and while taking them to throw them away, they burst, covering her in vomit. She is mortified at people’s glee seeing her in this situation. When she emerges from the bathroom in a replacement outfit made out of a sheet, everyone laughs and snaps pictures.
She desperately texts her friends for support, but no one responds. Sulking in the bathtub, she realizes, “When Siri is the only one there for you, you realize: being friended is not the same thing as having friends.”
The next morning, she arrives at a work meeting mortified, hoping everyone has forgotten the horrifying incident. Of course, everyone laughs as soon as she arrives. The meeting concerns a nasal spray that had to be recalled and how it needs to be rebranded. Her co-worker, a marketing guru named Henry, has been chosen to rebrand the spray.
Eliza gets the brilliant idea that if he can rebrand the nasal spray, he can rebrand her.
She approaches him, and he wants nothing to do with the scheme. “When I was sick, not one person called to see if I was okay, and I don’t know why.”
She begs him to help her, breaking him down by saying “Look, I know you don’t like me. If you don’t like me, just change me. Please.”
They start immediately. He follows her going about her day as she normally would. He points out things she does wrong, like how she never asks the receptionist how she is doing, nor does she know her name, and has her practice showing consideration for others.
He teaches Eliza to have a conversation with someone without being on her phone, paying undivided attention to the person.
He asks her a couple questions meant to reveal a little of her personality and gives her the assignment of attending an upcoming wedding with him. He wants her to dress more modestly and wear less makeup for this event to gain some of the ‘sexual morality’ she lacks.
She asks a neighbor for help toning down her look.
When Henry arrives, he tells her she can’t bring her cell phone to the wedding: “No phones. No wedding selfies. Today’s about focusing on a beauty other than your own.”
The wedding moves her to tears, and again reminds her that she may end up with no one to love her. To relax, she starts playing a video game on her phone, with the volume on full blast, interrupting the entire wedding. She and Henry fight and she calls him “unfun.” She insults him over his ex-girlfriend who apparently dumped him because he wasn’t fun. He calls Eliza a lost cause, and she storms off.
The next day, she decided to go back to her old ways and comfort herself with social media, but it doesn’t last long. She looks after the wellbeing of her coworker’s (the receptionist’s) son, and she tells Eliza that whatever she’s doing, to keep at it. She immediately runs to Henry’s house, where they have a heart-to-heart. She confesses that she was on her phone at the wedding because she was emotionally affected by it, and that she was lashing out on him earlier. They make up.
THE END!
