Podcast Ideas

Down and out man opens up to therapist and the audience really feels for the guy. 

The therapist stays strong while working with him but it turns out she starts breaking down when he leaves. His stories trigger some of her own struggles that she’s been dealing with. 

Multiple sessions occur where he discusses things that have been challenging him and each session digs deeper into the therapist’s challenges as well. 

She spirals into a dark place as she re-lives these things she’s been holding back from the world. 

Eventually she realizes she needs to face them head on instead of trying to escape from them. 

Somehow we as the audience start getting clues that the patient doesn’t actually have any issues, but he’s crafting his stories in order to help the therapist. 

There’s some backstory of why this guy cares enough about her to do this and somehow it’s revealed that he’s actually just a robot who’s been programmed to know exactly what to say and how to act to get her to dig deep into her past and face her problems. 

He drives her close to doing destructive decisions, but knows he will never actually allow her to take action on them. 

We realize there’s another real human behind the whole thing who has some reason to care about the therapist enough to create this whole thing. 

Maybe some of this is spelled out in one episode or maybe it’s something that’s hinted at over time, or maybe the kicker is revealed at the beginning then we can spend an entire season learning about the backstory of the robot programmer and why he decided to create these machines to help people. 

However it comes together I want there to be “holy crap” moments for the audience to realize things that they didnt see coming.