History Series / GetShorty

''Get Shorty'' is a drama series on Creator/MGMPlus channel inspired by the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel [[Literature/GetShorty of the same name]]. Created by Davey Holmes, it stars Creator/ChrisODowd and Creator/RayRomano as a Nevada gangster and schlock movie producer trying to get movies made with cartel money. Like the original novel and the [[Film/GetShorty film adaptation]], it focuses on the intersection of ruthless gangster tactics and Hollywood culture.

''Get Shorty'' is a drama series on the Creator/{{ePix}} channel inspired by the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel [[Literature/GetShorty of the same name]]. Created by Davey Holmes, it stars Creator/ChrisODowd and Creator/RayRomano as a Nevada gangster and schlock movie producer trying to get movies made with cartel money. Like the original novel and the [[Film/GetShorty film adaptation]], it focuses on the intersection of ruthless gangster tactics and Hollywood culture.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Yago leaves an interrogation to do this, of all settings.

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: The courier service used by the studio is called "Easy Schlep." Schlep is a popular Yiddish word for hauling or carrying something.
* YouHaveToHaveJews: None of the main characters are explicitly Jewish, but this trope is very subtly in effect. The "real actor" in Emma's class wears a yarmulke. The delivery service that the studio uses is called "Easy [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Schlep]]."

* RealityEnsues: Pushed by an ImagineSpot, Max tries to disarm a thug just like in all the action movies he's made. Even at his best, it's unlikely it'd have worked but considering Tyler is high at the time, it results in pathetically pushing the gun away which causes the guy to pull the trigger and shoot Max in the leg.

''Get Shorty'' is a drama series on the EPIX channel inspired by the Creator/ElmoreLeonard novel [[Literature/GetShorty of the same name]]. Created by Davey Holmes, it stars Creator/ChrisODowd and Creator/RayRomano as a Nevada gangster and schlock movie producer trying to get movies made with cartel money. Like the original novel and the [[Film/GetShorty film adaptation]], it focuses on the intersection of ruthless gangster tactics and Hollywood culture.

* YouHaveToHaveJews: None of the main characters are explicitly Jewish, but this trope is very subtly in effect. The "real actor" in Emma's class wears a yarmulke. The delivery service that the studio uses is called "Easy [[YiddishAsASecondLanguage Schlep]]."
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler:Katie does this to Jeffrey when she visits Miles in L.A.]]

* NotSoFakePropWeapon: Louis heads to threaten movie star Tyler to go along with their plans with an enforcer showing a gun. The arrogant actor scoffs "I've spent all day working with prop weapons, I know the difference." It turns out he doesn't, clutching his ears after the enforcer fires a bullet into the couch to get the point across.

* RealityEnsues: Pushed by an ImagineSpot, Tyler tries to disarm a thug just like in all the action movies he's made. Even at his best, it's unlikely it'd have worked but considering Tyler is high at the time, it results in pathetically pushing the gun away which causes the guy to pull the trigger and shoot Tyler in the leg.

* ButICantBePregnant: Played for laughs as Louis is stunned his girlfriend relates she's expecting. While she had assumed health reasons meant it couldn't happen, Louis can't believe it because, as he contends, they never really had sex. As it happens, Louis was practicing what he calls "flowing" where "you just stick it in and don't move it." Miles can only stare at his friend's complete lack of understanding that ''still'' counts as actual intercourse.

* ButICantGetPregnant: Played for laughs as Louis is stunned his girlfriend relates she's expecting. While she had assumed health reasons meant it couldn't happen, Louis can't believe it because, as he contends, they never really had sex. As it happens, Louis was practicing what he calls "flowing" where "you just stick it in and don't move it." Miles can only stare at his friend's complete lack of understanding that ''still'' counts as actual intercourse.

* DrinkOrder: As a practicing Mormon, Louis has a ginger ale when others are drinking alcohol. He eventually admits that he's come to hate it. It's just less awkward to have a beverage in hand while others are drinking.

* LuxuryPrisonSuite: When Rick and Miles both go to prison, Rick's minimum-security prison is juxtaposed humorously with Mile's more intense prison. Instead of arriving in chains to hooting tableau of inmates, Rick just walks up to the door and rings the bell, announcing, "I'm here to go to prison." His "cell" looks like a Motel 6, and his new bunkmate offers him home-baked cookies. Later, we see Rick enjoying a casual game of badminton on a lush green lawn, directing a play, and oil painting. When he's served his term, he openly states that he doesn't want to leave.

The show has aired two seasons so far.

** Lawrence the studio exec is always upbeat and very non-confrontational, preferring to leave a room rather than engage in any potentially charged conversations, but he's a ruthless producer who will screw people over behind their backs.

** When Yago kills [[spoiler:

* PapaWolf: Katie recalls how Miles excused the family dog for biting him, but secretly killed it after it nipped his daughter. When the man in charge of Emma's acting class sends Emma home in tears, [[spoiler:Miles does not react well]].

* GoneHorriblyRight: Miles works really hard to get ''The Admiral's Daughter'' produced, but with every success comes a new set of problems. A director famous for his unique artistic vision wants to direct the movie, which brings additional funding and interest in the movie. However, when the movie is finished, everyone realizes that the "artistic vision" turned the movie into a unwatchable mess. Miles has to recut the movie into something that can be shown to a normal audience.

* TimeSkip: Several months pass between episodes 9 and 10, and episode 10 jumps one year midway through.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Amara rules her gang with an iron fist but even she has to answer to TheCartel. When a drug shipment is intercepted by the police, the cartel has her cover all the losses out of her own pocket and ignores any protests from her. Ironically, this saves her from arrest by the FBI who decline to prosecute her on money laundering charges because they are hopping that they can use her to get evidence against more senior cartel members.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Amara rules her gang with an iron fist but even she has to answer to TheCartel. When a drug shipment is intercepted by the police, the cartel has her cover all the losses out of her own pocket and ignores any protests from her. Ironically, this saves her from arrest by the FBI who decline to persecute her on money laundering charges because they are hopping that they can use her to get evidence against more senior cartel members.

** Lawrence the studio exec is always upbeat and very non-confrontational, preferring to leave a room rather than engage in any potentially charged confrontations, but he's a ruthless producer who will screw people over behind their backs.

* AlwaysABiggerFish: Amara rules her gang with an iron fist but even she has to answer to TheCartel. When a drug shipment is intercepted by the police, the cartel has her cover all the losses out of her own pocket and ignores any protests from her. Ironically, this saves her from arrest by the FBI who decline to persecute her on money laundering charges because they are hopping that they can use her to get evidence against more senior cartel members.

** Creator/AlanArkin has one scene as a decrepit director courted by Rick. Arkin's son directs many of the episodes.

* TheDreaded: Amara, to everyone that knows her. Somewhat Deconstructed in that she has a harder time in the legitimate movie world, because people ''don't'' know her, and thus have no reason to listen to her blunt demands.

** Amara's relationship with rick blossoms into actual love.

* GoneHorriblyRight: Miles works really hard to get the "Admiral's Daughter" produced but with every success comes a new set of problems. A director famous for his unique artistic vision wants to direct the movie which brings additional funding and interest in the movie. However, when the movie is finished everyone realizes that the 'artistic vision' turned the movie into a unwatchable mess. Miles has to recut the movie into something that can be shown to a normal audience.

* SeriousBusiness: The craft of filmmaking is often juxtaposed with life-and-death drug criminality, with comic effect.