Plot Synopsis

Based on a short story of the same name from creator and award-winning author George Saunders, SEA OAK is a half-hour dark comedy series that features Aunt Bernie, a meek, working-class woman who dies tragically in a home invasion. Compelled by sheer force of dissatisfaction, she comes back from the dead full of rage, determined to get the life she never had. She proceeds to inflict a range of demands on her immediate family who live in a low-end subsidized hellhole of a housing complex called Sea Oak. Amazon Video released the pilot of SEA OAK on Friday, November 10, 2017 at 3:01am ET/12:01am PT, the same day the video streaming service released the pilot episodes of two other half-hour series.