Scoop: THE LETTER on FREEFORM - Today, November 29, 2016

By: Nov. 29, 2016
Get Access To Every Broadway Story

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click.




Existing user? Just click login.

9:00-10:00 p.m. EST Four girls from Atlanta are the very best of friends, sharing everything with each other - or so they think. In reality, several of them have been harboring heartbreaking secrets that have had unintentional consequences on their relationships with one another. "The Letter," airs TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 (9:00-10:00 p.m. EST), on Freeform.

In the episode titled "Atlanta Belles," four best friends love to party and have a great time together, but each girl has at least one self-destructive habit. What they don't know is that some of the girls have been keeping painful secrets that in turn have been affecting their friendships. They decide to take The Letter challenge in hopes of facing the truth and making changes that can only help their futures. They will draw names and anonymously write an honest letter to the selected person outlining their opinion of what behaviors need to change.

• Candice is the sweet one of the group, but she's so preoccupied with her looks that it takes her hours to get ready just to go out. Her friends feel like she uses makeup and her hair as her security blankets and want her to face her fears and realize she's beautiful just as she is.

• Megan is the party girl, always up for having a good time. She doesn't work, but she loves to shop and show off her new purchases. The girls love her energy, but think she's living a superficial life. What they don't know is that she had a very rough childhood she's kept repressed all these years.

• Nancy was once heavier due to a medical condition she has never told the girls about. She lost the pounds, but now her weight has become an unhealthy obsession for her. She's passed out several times from not eating and her friends are worried she'll do permanent damage to herself if she doesn't seek medical attention.

• Teal is the literal and figurative mother of the group. She adores her five-year-old daughter, but in order to take care of her, Teal has had to accept financial support from her ex, while she works a job that is not financially stable. The girls want her to quit her dead end job and seek employment elsewhere so that she can raise her daughter independently.

When each friend receives their letter, they are required to follow all of the letter's instructions for one week. Candice has to go makeup free and cut off her long locks; Megan has to volunteer at a food bank; Teal has to meet with a life coach; and Nancy has to seek help for her eating disorder.

10:00-11:00 p.m. EST Four best friends from the tiny town of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, decide they need to shake things up by taking the letter challenge on the season finale of "The Letter," airing TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 (10:00-11:00 p.m. EST), on Freeform.

In the episode titled "Friends Since Four," four young women from Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, decide they've become too caught up in their small-town lives and must push each other to the limit if they're ever going to branch out and grow. They will draw names and anonymously write an honest letter to the selected person outlining their opinion of what behaviors need to change.

Tega, a 25-year-old medical student, is an overachiever. Her need to be perfect and on top of everything has led her to constantly schedule her life down to the minute. Her friends want her to slow down and cut herself some slack.

Jamie is a member one of the most prominent families in town. Coming from old money and privilege, she's never wanted for anything. The girls need her to realize that most people have to work incredibly hard to have even half of what she's been given.

Hallett is a preschool teacher and the poster child for Camp Hill. She knows everyone and has settled into a comfortable routine from which she never deviates. The gang would like Hallett to branch out and discover a whole other world beyond the town she's lived in her whole life.

Andrea is the self-proclaimed laid-back member of the group. Sporting tattoos and burgundy hair, she follows the beat of her own drum. But what she sees as easygoing, her friends see as laziness, stemming from insecurity and an inability to make a decision.

When each friend receives their letter, they are required to follow all of the letter's instructions for one week. Tega has to meet with a mindfulness/mediation sensei; Jamie has to work a double shift as a server in a restaurant; Hallett must head to Philadelphia and purposely meet new people; and Andrea has to join a confidence boot camp.


"The Letter" is a bold, relationship show that asks the simple question: "If you could anonymously tell your best friend in a letter the things that he or she really needed to hear, would you do it?" In each stand-alone episode, four friends draw names and anonymously write to the selected person a thoughtful, yet totally honest letter outlining their opinion of what needs to be changed in order to improve and transform their friend's life for the better. For one week, each "reader" must follow all the rules and instructions outlined in the letter - culminating in a dramatic and emotionally charged meeting where the authors of each letter reveal themselves to their best friends. The series is narrated by actress Zelda Williams ("Dead of Summer").

"The Letter" is produced by Sirens Media, part of Leftfield Entertainment, an ITV America company. Executive producers for Sirens Media are Rebecca Toth Diefenbach, Valerie Haselton, Lucilla D'Agostino, Jack Mori and Arthur Borman. Zelda Williams serves as producer.



Videos