Six online video shows you should have watched (and still can)
Thought it might be worthwhile to pull together links to some of my reviews of web-only shows. There's some amazing stuff out there:
Review: Getting Away with Murder | IFC.com
Mothers, don't let your babies grow up to be hitmen. Especially nebbish hitmen like Seth Silver,
who at 25 still lives at home, takes his mom contra dancing once a
week, and always answers her calls, even if he's in the middle of a
quadruple homicide. Mom, in this case, is Rhonda "Ronnie" Silver, a
Jewish television chef who thinks Seth is a veterinarian.
The only person
who knows the truth about Seth's true vocation: His womanizing friend
with a shoe fetish, Rex.
Review: Prom Queen | promqueen.tv
Teens, you may have heard, speak the ling. That's ling as in lingo
and lingo as in abbreviations: Whatev for whatever, ridic for
ridiculous, obv for obvious (duh). The words are glib but the
shorthand, meant to convey maximum meaning in minimal time, is useful.
Teens are efficient that way. They come pre-edited for time, if not for
content.The same goes for Prom Queen...
Review: Wallstrip | wallstrip.com
A cheap and easy critical approach to Wallstrip, the "stock culture meets pop culture" videoblog that CBS just bought for undisclosed single-digit millions, goes something like this: Coquettish brunette in a baby tee talks finance, flirts. Must be Amanda Congdon 2.0.
Review: Clark and Michael | clarkandmichael.com
This is the age of inside baseball. The voyeurism of lonelygirl15 (inside teens), the unfettered insight through SNL Backstage (inside television), the metacognitive conceit of Nobody's Watching and Goodnight, Burbank (inside the making of television), the deconstructionism of SNLOCmeme (inside television drama). We've become so accustomed to the stories we tell ourselves that we tell ourselves stories about those stories. Old hat? Feels new. Especially now that the Hollywood creation myth has been metastasized into YouTube.
Review: Cafe Confidential | metacafe.com/cc
My first time was awkward. I was 18, she was drunk on Boone's Farm
wine, and the event was interrupted by a tall friend with dreadlocks
who opened the door -- later, he would swear he was looking for the
bathroom -- and tripped over our discarded clothes, fell, and landed
squarely on my butt. True story. Not something you'd tell your folks. But,
ironically enough in our modesty-free Web culture, a confession you
might have no problem sharing with, oh, the entire Internet. (Hi mom.)
Review: Starring Amanda Congdon | abcnews.com
You can learn a lot about a woman by the t-shirt she wears. On her first day as an ABC news correspondent, Amanda Congdon, former hostess of popular videoblog Rocketboom, wore a t-shirt that read Steely Dan.
