MINOR PROPHETS - 1 Hour Teen Drama Series
Minor Prophets is a faith-rooted, teen adventure drama set in the Florida Keys that blends coastal mystery, ensemble character dynamics, and serialized treasure-hunt storytelling. The series combines the bingeable pacing and friendship-driven structure of Outer Banks with a grounded spiritual mythology drawn from the Minor Prophets, using faith as an organic thematic framework rather than a didactic narrative.
The show follows seven working-class Catholic teens from fishing families who uncover clues to a long-lost colonial artifact — a ceramic covenant jar tied to a 1622 Spanish shipwreck near the Dry Tortugas. The artifact, known as “The Deeds,” contains writings inspired by the Minor Prophets and serves as a symbolic throughline around themes of justice, repentance, restoration, and community responsibility. Its value is not supernatural but thematic, allowing the series to maintain grounded realism while layering moral stakes.
The teens, bonded through their local upbringing, rely on intimate knowledge of reefs, tides, and storm patterns to compete against a well-funded outsider antagonist: a high-tech influencer dive crew documenting their search for viral content. This dynamic creates a clear episodic engine — local grit and faith-driven motivation versus technology, money, and commercialization — while sustaining serialized tension.
The Florida Keys setting provides a visually distinctive production environment: small boats, mangrove channels, Fort Jefferson ruins, shifting weather, and isolated coastal communities. Storm systems function as both narrative escalations and metaphorical beats tied to the show’s thematic core. Action elements include boat chases, dive sequences, clue-based exploration, and rival encounters, balanced with quieter character moments grounded in friendship and faith.
Each episode advances the treasure hunt while spotlighting character arcs tied loosely to the Minor Prophets’ themes — justice, mercy, calling, doubt, and restoration — allowing for both procedural discovery and serialized emotional growth. The artifact hunt provides a clear season-long spine, with layered mythology revealed incrementally through journals, historical references, and family connections.
The ensemble structure allows for multiple entry points and long-term scalability.
Minor Prophets occupies a unique tonal space — a grounded adventure series with authentic faith integration, positioned between mainstream teen ensemble drama and inspirational storytelling. The concept is scalable across platforms, with potential extensions into audio, limited series arcs, or companion materials, while remaining production-friendly due to contained geography and ensemble-driven storytelling.
At its core, the project offers a repeatable story engine, visually distinctive setting, and values-based thematic foundation, aimed at delivering a character-driven adventure series with both commercial pacing and emotional depth.