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This four-episode miniseries came out in 2024. It's apparently set sometime between Inside Out and Inside Out 2. It's done in a mockumentary style.
There's a movie studio inside Riley's mind, called Dream Productions. Of course, they produce Rilely's dreams (and nightmares). The main character in the series is a dream director named Paula Persimmon, whose directorial style is stuck in the past. She insists on making dreams that are much the same as the ones Riley had when she was younger, and neglects the fact that Riley (now 12 years old) is growing up. Paula has an assistant director named Janelle Johnson, who has fresher ideas, and becomes a director, herself. Paula tries to make a dream without an assistant, and it does not go well. So she's assigned a new assistant, a daydream director named Xeni Dewberry, whose ideas are radically different from Paula's, so they don't get along. But Paula can't get rid of him, because he's the nephew of the head of the studio, Jean Dewberry (Maya Rudolph). However, when one of their dreams goes horribly awry, Jean finally demotes Xeni, and gives Paula one last chance. Xeni tries to sabotage Paula's career by writing a nightmare and switching it with the script Paula is supposed to follow. But he later has a change of heart, and the two of them, along with Janelle, have to try to change the dream, to protect Riley. Throughout the series, Riley is trying to decide whether or not to go to her first school dance, and her dreams are supposed to make it easier for her to decide, but they often end up making it harder. But in the end, Paula manages to help Riley with her decision.
That's all I want to reveal of the plot. I hope I haven't said too much. It's a rather amusing series, as well as being interesting, dramatic, and heartfelt. It has good character development for the main characters, and a good overall story arc. I definitely enjoyed it, and I think it was just the right length. I'm not sure if I'd enjoy an ongoing series about Dream Productions as much as I did this miniseries. I'm sure it could be done, with different sorts of stories in every episode, but I think the concept works best telling just one story, over the course of the four episodes.