The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman

- Season 1

(2006)

After their car is rear-ended by 1970s icon Sally Kellerman, Jackie and Tara are drawn into the world of The Platform, a so-called self-help group spearheaded by a charismatic ex-agent. Tara quickly embraces the "step up" way of life, leaving Jackie, convinced it's a cult, with no choice but to join herself if she's going to save her best friend.

For the first time in ages, Jackie meets someone with boyfriend potential, a graphic novelist named Mike. Jackie promises to attend his upcoming book reading but her plans change after she receives a much-sought-after invitation to the party of the latest auteur-de-jour.

Jackie discovers that her would-be boyfriend Mike has stolen her script about a 1930s roller derby queen and sold it to the production company Tara works for. To add insult to injury, Jackie's hired as his assistant.

With Mike's help, Jackie gets elevated to co-writer status on her own screenplay; little does she know, however, that he got studio heads Ken and Carol to sympathize with Jackie by telling them she has cancer.

Unable to sleep because of a neighbor's incessant car alarm, Jackie calls the cops and gets it towed. The next morning, she's unexpectedly befriended by its owner, a hotshot, New Age-y agent who quickly decides that she wants to be in the Jackie Woodman business.

Jackie receives a sizable filmmaking grant from a Native American non-profit and within hours she and Tara have spent it all on clothes, leaving them to rely on their wits alone to produce and shoot footage for Jackie's proposed documentary about the sacred peyote ritual.

Learning that an old enemy from film school signed an improbable deal to turn a book, on how to write a screenplay, into a movie, Jackie, in utter frustration, turns to the wisdom of Sun Tzu's "The Art of War."

After accidentally becoming addicted to a new designer drug, Cadillactin, the new and improved Jackie horrifies her friends when she becomes obsessed with right wing radio host Ned Carter. In no time, she's named Carter's Commando of the Week and invited as guest of honor to his latest pep rally: Abu Ghraib Night.