Wayside by Jon-Alexander Genson

Wayside

Television (One-hour) · Drama · 60 pages

Status: Spec

After the brother he betrayed goes missing, and his grifter niece shows up on his doorstep, an ex army cop hits the road with her to solve his brother's disappearance while solving offbeat crimes along the way. A Coen-esque procedural in the vein of POKER FACE.

Written by Jon-Alexander Genson

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Jon-Alexander Genson

Los Angeles, California

Raised by a hypercritical, single Mexican immigrant mom in a working class small town north of Chicago, Jon turned to horror to make sense of his fears and insecurities. Jon is former Army Military Police and an alumnus of Illinois State University (BA), the WGF Support Staff Training Program, and the WGF Veterans Writing Project. He was most recent...

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Jon developed WAYSIDE in 2023-2024 in the WGF Veterans Writing Project Program, working with mentors Wendy West (FBI: MW; DEXTER), Robert Munic (POWER BOOK IV: FORCE), and Greg Cope White (Netflix's THE CORPS).