GaryTown

Happy summer days; lake life in a small midwestern town, bustling with thirsty vacationers, and zany tavern-hopping townies. However, there is an underlying notion that something is wrong. An elusive something is out of place. Something you cannot immediately describe with a word picture. 

Follow MATT ZELINSKI, an overly anxious forty-something podcaster, desperate to keep his contract with iheartradio, for an extended vacation in his quirky Wisconsin hometown. He quickly reunites with a job-hopping childhood friend CHARLIE NELSON, and learns Charlie has an estranged half-brother GARY.

Matt, curious to know more, starts asking the townsfolk about Gary, and they share bizarre and heroic stories about him, but when Matt witnesses Gary saving a boy’s life at his kid's baseball game, he suspects it’s Charlie. As Matt’s suspicions grow, Gary pushes the prank as far as he can.

This is a story of deception. A meticulous stunt organized by Charlie Nelson and others, designed to trick the townsfolk and a popular podcaster into thinking Charlie has a half-brother Gary; all in an effort to create a hit podcast.

While it’s blatantly obvious to Matt and the viewing audience that Gary is Charlie; that’s not the case in these small towns. Could the exposure have damaging consequences, and who is in on the prank?

While the results of GaryTown discombobulate a small community, it unlocks a podcasters long-lost family secret. Do you want to know the secret?

We must go back to season 1. At the midpoint, while going through a box of his late mother's stuff, Matt pulls out a photograph; a baby picture of him with his mother, and some strange man on a familiar dock. This is Matt’s father, but who is he?