Vampire Zombie Werewolf: Ep. 3 “Vampwardly Mobile”

Tad has a plan to win friends and influence Vampires.

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“If you exist… does God?

The episode begins with a quirky, intentionally-lame Vampire Zombie Werewolf theme song that Tad pitches to the frightened producer as the opening to their web series.  In very meta fashion, his wife worries about it being too long (Tad has looped it to last 5 minutes).

I have to hand it to the series creators for making fun of web series clichés.  Though, it begs the question: If you know enough to hang a lantern on the problem (draw attention to it), does that excuse you from making that same mistake?

As Tad tells the producer: “If there’s one thing I’ve learned watching web shows is that if you have an episode without much dramatic action, the key is to keep it short.”

And that’s exactly what this episode doesn’t do.  Tad spends the entire five minute episode talking and building up this Vampire “coming out” party for him and his wife.  But where’s the action?

The “funny” innuendo about the couple and guests eating the producer gets repetitive fast.  After that, there really are no more jokes.

At the end of the episode, there is a nice hook as we hard cut into the title card: “The Vampires are coming.”  Then, there is a trailer snippet—a quick shot of bats flying towards the house.  Nice suspense there.  Still, wished we got to this moment sooner.

But a web series needs to be more than just a sum of its cliff-hanger hooks.  I really hope this one can get to the story faster, because the production values really are out of this world, and the actors are trying hard to make us laugh with what they’ve got.

But at the end of the day, all the audience is going to care about is: Where is this all going?

I’m still not sure… but hey, a vampire party sounds like it might be fun.  Let’s see how next week’s episode fares.