When I say top rated drama, what do you think of?
I know! All the good shows are about hospitals, medical practices, law firms, ambulance drivers....
There are no shows that have super sexy accountants discussing alternative minimum tax. Accountants are underrated though. I think it would be entirely possible for a hit drama to be based on an accounting firm.
Reasons I think an accounting firm could make a good setting for a prime time drama:
1. My husband is always asking me if I have completed all the WD-40s I was supposed to do. It's kind of amusing that he refuses to call the forms by their proper names. Every drama has to have a character's spouse drop by for comic relief.
2. Accountants do it with interest. Get it?
3. Commercial Catch Phrase: Accountants never die; they just lose their balance.
4. Accountants know where all the bodies are buried. No joke. People confess terrible things to their accountant in hopes that it is tax deductible. I know something about several clients that made me feel sick when I heard it. I know who has a love child that his wife doesn't know about. I know who bought a house for his mistress. I know a woman who had an abortion her husband doesn't know about. Do the math. People tell their accountants all sorts of things.
5. February sweeps = Tax season. Ok, maybe I am the only one who finds it funny.
Hmmmm. What do you think? Could an accounting firm make for great TV?