When a renowned romance coach receives a wedding invitation from her ex-fiancé on Valentine’s Day, she goes into full atomic revenge mode, launching a frantic thirty-day mission to find a husband — or at least a diamond ring — to flash at her ex’s big day, dragging her three closest friends into the wildest love-quest odyssey of her life.

SYNOPSIS:

On Valentine’s Day Washington D.C. wakes up to Briana Payne everywhere—on billboards, on morning shows, on the cover of her bestselling book Chickens Run but Peacocks Strut. As the city’s reigning Love Coach and host of the hit TV show CHECKMATE, Briana glides through her day with flawless precision, dispensing sharp, glamorous, no‑nonsense advice to callers who treat her like a romantic oracle. But beneath the polish, Briana’s personal life is a carefully guarded vault, one she hasn’t opened since the fiancé who broke her heart ten years ago left her swearing off dating entirely. That vault cracks when Briana receives a wedding invitation from that very ex‑fiancé, now marrying someone else and discovers her three closest friends have been invited too. The envelope detonates her composure. Off‑camera, in the safety of her living room, with her girlfriends, Briana spirals from shock to fury to competitive resolve. Determined not to show up alone—or worse, defeated—she makes a bold vow: she will be engaged or married before the wedding.

There’s just one problem. Briana hasn’t been on a date in a decade, and the 2005 dating landscape is a foreign country—Myspace flirting, AOL late‑night chats, speed‑dating events, brunch‑table setups, and the early, slightly embarrassing world of online personals. Suddenly the woman who built a career teaching others how to love is the one who’s out of practice, out of touch, and out of time. With the wedding clock ticking, Briana enlists her three best friends, each with their own messy romantic lives—to help her navigate Washington’s chaotic dating scene. Their mission: find Briana Mr. Right… or at least Mr. Right Now. But as Briana steps into the world she’s only ever analyzed from a distance, she discovers that love is far more unpredictable.

By the end of the pilot, Briana’s public persona and private panic collide in spectacular fashion, forcing her to confront the truth she’s spent a decade avoiding: she may know everything about love, except how to let herself feel it.