I Tried to Pitch Netflix a Series About the Job Market. Here’s How That Went.

So, I did it.

I decided to pitch Netflix.

Because let’s be honest—if they can greenlight a docuseries about a guy who raised wolves in his New Jersey basement, or make a slow-burn drama about competitive stone stacking in Iceland, then surely there’s room for a mini-series about the greatest psychological thriller of our time: The Modern Job Hunt.

I call it: Interview Games.

Genre: A corporate horror dramedy with strong “satire meets survival” energy. Think Black Mirror if it were powered by LinkedIn and flavored with espresso, rejection, and existential dread.

Here’s the pitch:

Eight interviews.

Four unpaid projects.

Three personality tests.

And one final email that reads, “We’ve decided to go in a different direction, but we wish you the best on your continued journey.”

The twist?

The candidate never applied for the job to begin with.

I know what you’re thinking: Alex, that sounds too real to be television.

EXACTLY.

But here’s the problem:

You can’t just pitch Netflix.

There’s no “Have a great idea? Click here!” button.

You have to go through an agent.

A very specific kind of agent—one who exclusively works with filmmakers who were either born in Cannes, raised by screenwriters, or went viral on TikTok for whispering monologues into banana bread.

And even if you find one of these unicorns and get a meeting, they’ll ask important questions like:

“Can we make the protagonist animated?”

“Does the main character have a podcast, or at least trauma that trends well?”

And my favorite:

“What if we added a talking dog that helps people rewrite their résumés using healing crystals?”

But I digress.

I’m not asking for much.

Just six episodes. Maybe seven if we throw in a flashback arc titled “Your Application Is Still Under Review.”

I want a dramatic trailer. Moody piano music. And at least one slow-motion scene of a man scrolling a job portal in sweatpants while Sarah McLachlan sings softly in the background.

Because this isn’t just entertainment.

This is real life.

People are being ghosted after panel interviews.

Told they’re “not a culture fit” before anyone’s asked what culture they’re from.

Rejected for being “too experienced,” then contacted three weeks later by the same company with a 1099 role called “freelance happiness associate.”

I had someone tell me they were asked to record a 12-minute video explaining their greatest weaknesses—before they’d ever spoken to a human being.

I told them we’d call that episode:

“Late-Stage Capitalism, Now Streaming.”

So yes—Netflix hasn’t called.

Yet.

But what I do have is content.

Thousands of messages from real people navigating this bizarre, brutal hiring landscape with grit, humor, and hope.

I have stories.

I have characters.

I have a plot twist in every rejection email.

And while Hollywood might not realize it yet—this is the most relatable story in America right now.

So until an agent returns my email without asking if I’ve ever written a feature about time-traveling goats in space, I’ll keep doing what I do best:

Writing.

Posting.

Laughing to keep from crying.

And telling the stories we all thought we were living through alone.

Because one day, when Interview Games premieres on a Thursday night and half the country yells,

“Oh my God, I thought it was just me,”—

we’ll all know the truth:

This was never just a job search.

It was always a shared experience.

A survival tale.

A story waiting to be told.

So if you’re reading this at Netflix—or know someone who knows someone—call me.

Until then?

I’ll be here.

Holding the pen.

Pitching truth in a language they don’t even realize they speak.

Yet.