Created for COMM4204: Producing for Television, Fall 2011.
Asylum is a drama that will explore the vast inner-workings of the mind and the complexity of human nature. The show will be based in a mental institution during the 1960 time period; when the treatment for mental illness was on the verge of a major reform. Our show follows the patients and staff at the deteriorating and infamous Riverside Psychiatric Hospital in Riverside, Massachusetts.
In this pilot episode our main protagonist, Patrick Kesey, enters the hospital for the first time.
