With The Angels Ep. 5 “Hollywood Insighter”

Look familiar?

1 Swirlies

“This internet is supposed to be all about interacting. So let’s interact! Alright? ”

This very short episode introduces a new character, doing a video blog about television.

Not sure where this web series is going with this episode, and it has grown quite stale since it has been uploaded - he’s talking about an upcoming TV season that has long past us by. Which is mildly amusing, but doesn’t make me want to watch the next episode.

I think part of the problem for me is that this episode lacks any sort of context with the series, letting me know how it connects. I assume that Taffy meets this guy, so this is our way of meeting him before she does. I guess. I haven’t watched an episode for a while, so maybe I’m missing something.

This series takes a fictional character and has that character use YouTube to communicate with the audience, blending together the episode that have narrative elements with uploads (like episode 3) that are just stuff Taffy wants to share with us. While I loved that about the commercial in episode 3 I don’t love it so much here, because there’s no sense of how this guy connects to Taffy, while with the commercial you get the strong impression that Taffy’s feeling disillusioned with the promise of Hollywood.

A little more context would have made me connect much more with this episode.