Harper Stewart is a writer living in Chicago with his beautiful and free-spirited girlfriend, Robin. The movie opens with Harper returning home from a day of meetings to inform Robin that his semi-autobiographical debut novel, “Unfinished Business,” has been selected by Oprah’s Book Club and will be fast-tracked for publication. They celebrate by lounging in a tub, but even though they have been dating for two years and all appears well in their relationship, Harper balks at the mention of marriage. Robin is hurt by his reaction and assumes it is because Harper still has feelings for the college girlfriend he wrote about in his novel. Despite this, Robin agrees to attend Harper’s best friend’s wedding in New York.
Mia Sullivan, wife of Lance Sullivan, has written letters requesting that the old gang should join them for Christmas: Harper Stewart and his almost-nine-month-pregnant wife Robyn, Julian “Murch” Murchison and wife Candace Sparks, her best friend Jordan Armstrong and boyfriend Brian McDonald, Quentin “Q” Spivey, and Shelby Taylor. All the friends arrive at the house, the first time they’ve come together in 14 years, and the celebration begins. At dinner, the old friends catch up while tensions grow between Shelby and Candace.
Based on the eponymous film franchise, the series will catch up with Harper, Robyn, Jordan, Lance, Quentin, Shelby, Candace, and Murch as relationships evolve and past grievances resurface in the unpredictable stages of midlife crisis meets midlife renaissance.