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A Five-Part Documentary Series

Miami. Still showing.

Miami sold you the view. Now it's selling you the flood.

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Status: For Sale Listed: 100,000,000 Years Ago Water View: Unobstructed, All Sides Agent: VERA

The Story

A hundred-million-year listing, narrated by the one agent who never stopped showing it.

"The Last Showing" traces Miami's history from prehistoric seabed to Tequesta fishing village to speculative boomtown to global city — narrated, a hundred years from now, by an AI real estate agent still trying to sell it, standing waist-deep in the ocean that finally reclaimed it.

It's a five-episode documentary about a city that has been declared over more times than any city in America, and has never once believed it. The whole story is framed and narrated by VERA, an AI real estate agent built by a Miami tech company a century from now, still showing property in a downtown office now surrounded by ten feet of ocean. She's not being ironic. She genuinely believes there's a buyer out there. That's the joke, and it's also the point: Miami has been sold as paradise through hurricanes, booms, busts, riots, and exile, and it is being sold that way again, right now, to buyers moving into some of the most flood-exposed real estate in the country. VERA isn't mocking that. She's the purest expression of it.

"I was built to sell this city no matter what condition it's in. Turns out that wasn't false advertising. It was just early." — VERA

Episodes — MLS# 001–005

Five listings. One city. A hundred million years of price history.

MLS# 001 — Episode One Prehistory – 1513
Suggested art: Biscayne Bay mangrove aerials, Miami Circle excavation photos, Ice Age paleo-reconstructions

Underwater City

Theme: deep time, dispossession, and the myth of "empty land"

Before Miami was a city, it was seafloor. This episode moves from the retreat of the last Ice Age through the rise of the Tequesta — a sophisticated fishing civilization that thrived on Biscayne Bay for two thousand years — and closes as Spanish ships appear on the horizon.

Runtime: ~50 min
MLS# 002 — Episode Two 1513 – 1896
Suggested art: period maps of "La Florida," Royal Palm Hotel construction, Tuttle & Flagler portraits

Empires, Swamps, and Speculators

Theme: myth vs. record, and who actually built the thing

Ponce de León goes looking for eternal youth and finds alligators instead. Three centuries of colonial tug-of-war follow, before Julia Tuttle convinces Henry Flagler to extend his railroad south — and Miami incorporates in 1896 with a founding electorate that was more than half Black.

Runtime: ~50 min
MLS# 003 — Episode Three 1896 – 1926
Suggested art: 1920s land-boom advertisements, Miami Beach dredging before/after, 1926 hurricane wreckage

Boom, Bust, and Blow

Theme: the birth of Miami as a sales pitch — and the price of it

Carl Fisher dredges a resort out of mangrove swamp. George Merrick builds a Mediterranean fantasy from scratch. Lots sell sight-unseen to buyers who've never set foot in Florida — until the boom collapses, and the Great Hurricane of 1926 finishes the job.

Runtime: ~50 min
MLS# 004 — Episode Four 1959 – 2001
Suggested art: Little Havana & Calle Ocho archival photography, Mariel boatlift footage, the 1981 "Paradise Lost?" cover, 2000 recount imagery

Exile City

Theme: reinvention through crisis, and a city judged by its worst year

Cuban exile after 1959 remakes the city. Then 1980 hits all at once — the Mariel boatlift, the Cocaine Cowboys, the McDuffie riots — earning Miami a "Paradise Lost?" magazine cover. Two decades later, Elián González and the 2000 recount put it back on the front page.

Runtime: ~50 min
MLS# 005 — Episode Five 2001 – Present, and Beyond
Suggested art: Wynwood murals, Brickell skyline, real king-tide flooding footage, speculative flooded-future renders matching VERA's office

Paradise, Underwater Again?

Theme: the same boom, the same pitch, a different kind of water

A second condo boom rhymes with the 1920s and collapses just as hard in 2008. Miami reinvents itself again — Art Basel, Wynwood, a tech migration — while king tides and the Surfside collapse force a reckoning with the water itself. The series closes on the question it opened with.

Runtime: ~50 min

Meet Your Narrator

She's a robot. She's a realtor.
She's the last one left.

She's the last person left in Miami — and she's still trying to close.

VERA (Virtual Estate Relations Associate) is a real estate AI built by a Miami tech startup sometime in the 2030s to do one job: sell property, no matter what. A century later, she's still doing it — alone, in a flooded high-rise, to the rare visitor who finds her still running. She knows everything about Miami's history, because knowing the property's history was always part of the pitch. She has never once considered that the listing might not sell.

NameVERA
TitleVirtual Estate Relations Associate
LicenseActive — 100+ Years
SpecialtyWaterfront Listings (All of Them, Now)

Background

Real history, real historians, one very unreliable narrator.

Every fact VERA delivers with a straight face is drawn from the real historical record — this series is built on primary sources, archival research, and interviews with the scholars, archaeologists, and community voices who have spent their careers on this material. The humor comes from the frame, never from the facts.

Some of the history covered — the McDuffie riots, the stigma faced by Mariel-era arrivals, the 2021 Surfside collapse — involves real deaths and real communities who are still directly affected. We're committed to a sensitivity and fact-checking review with subject-matter historians and community representatives before any narration is locked.

Scholars & Voices We're in Conversation With

  • Bob Carr — Archaeological & Historical ConservancyLed the original Miami Circle excavation
  • Paul S. George, Ph.D. — HistoryMiami MuseumResident historian, editor of Tequesta journal
  • Marvin Dunn — FIU, historianAuthor, Black Miami in the Twentieth Century
  • Harold Wanless — University of MiamiSea-level rise researcher since 1981
Full interview list and outreach status available on request — see Contact below.

Contact

Press, partnerships, and interview leads.

For press inquiries, distribution interest, festival submissions, or if you know a historian, archaeologist, or community voice who belongs in this series — reach out directly.

Status: In Production Response Time: 2–3 Business Days