Maude Moore gets her kicks causing chaos. A textbook narcissist with a main character complex to end all main character complexes, Maude thinks that it’s her world and we’re all just living in it–but she’d never let anyone know it. To keep in her social world’s good graces, she poses herself as a therapy-loving, tarot-reading, perpetually meditating empath. With just a bit of patchouli oil and some elbow grease, Maude has friends and lovers wrapped around her finger.
That is, until one of her dates cuts things off. And then an old ex gets in contact, asking for closure and an apology. And her charm starts to wear off on her roommate. Slowly, then all at once, everyone starts to call bull on her schtick. As Maude’s world begins to crumble around her, she desperately grasps on to the sliver of power she has left and tries to milk it for all its worth. All is eventually lost as Maude learns the hard way that she’s been publicly called out online–and everyone’s seen it but her. In one final push, Maude takes to instagram live in an attempt to dig herself out, but only falls deeper into her own delusion.
Originally a student production, I Feel That Completely was written and shot in 2022. In the two years since the show's conception, conversations about the weaponization of therapy speak, the cancel culture panopticon of social media, and the limits of likability for "messy female characters" have only increased, making the series more relevant than ever.
I Feel That Completely was shot over the course of seven days by a small crew of students running off of a couple hundred bucks, a pallet of Redbull, and an electric script. Buoyed by favors, friends of friends who know a guy, and the kindness of strangers, the show is a testament to the possibilities of independent filmmaking and the potential of a newly emerging generation of creatives. It's also really fucking funny.