Melissa Hunter spent her youth being told she was a dead ringer for Christina Ricci. Middle-school bullies mocked her with the moniker “Wednesday,” after Ricci’s role in The Addams Family. So a couple years ago, the ebony-haired, doe-eyed Hunter decided to reclaim the epithet and dress as the acrimonious adolescent......
After roommates, dating is probably the second most saturated subject matter in digital video, but these two series manage to stand out from the horde. Swipe Click Bang artfully takes on the emotional side of Tinder hook-ups. Creators Michael Vitale, Michael Sasso and Joseph Amato were inspired by acclaimed pot-themed......
David Catalano’s web series The Smalls Family features a sitcom-esque suburban clan with one twist: Their dialogue is a word-for-word transcription of songs by platinum-selling hip-hop artist Notorious B.I.G. “Some people wanna stick me like fly paper, neighbor!” teen Katie Smalls fumes to her parents over a pizza dinner in......
There are countless web series about actors in L.A., but very few in which the actor is a 10-foot-tall alien robot. Enter hot hunk … of metal Jeff, the well-meaning, socially awkward robot hero of Wired and Condé Nast Entertainment’s new mockumentary web series, Jeff 1000. Three of the episodes......
Crack-Duck has a lot on his plate. As apartment manager of Grungetown Towers, he has to muster the courage to interact socially with his tenants and deal with discord — such as when diaper-clad Thievy Tim steals the Sun from Zqiygyxz, the all-knowing dog who has reached nirvana — all......
The web series has come a long way in the last few years. Critical acclaim, star power and an increasing number of web-to-TV success stories have raised awareness and respect for the genre. Of course, this has encouraged thousands of hopeful creators to turn their attentions to the tiny screen. This......
In the age of “right swiping,” dick pics, student loan debt and egg freezing, the etiquette of dating has become blurrier than ever. In her thoughtful, beautifully shot and soundscaped web series 52 Ways to Break Up, actress-writer-producer Megan Rosati explores the many ways a romantic connection might explode or......
Ever feel like you should teach yourself how to cook an adult-person meal but you’d rather just chill out and watch comedy YouTube videos? Now you can do both. In their hybrid sitcom/cooking show, Eat Our Feelings, Brooklyn-based writer-actor-server Sasha Winters and writer–vegan chef Emma Jane Gonzalez serve up sassy,......
The Upright Citizens Brigade has produced digital series with IFC, Above Average and Nerdist, but its hilarious, heartfelt and gorgeously ghoulish Gary Saves the Graveyard is by far its most ambitious and compelling. Gary (Jim Santangeli) missed one minor detail when he got his new job as graveyard caretaker. Due......
Danny Carter is a go-go dancer at one of L.A.’s hottest gay clubs. Every night he gets black-out drunk, twerks on a box for six hours, wearing less than a Speedo, then wakes up in bed with a stranger. He’s living the dream! Until … he turns the big 3-0......
