Break Ups: The Series Ep.6 “TJ & Katie” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Semi-Improvised Dramedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“I’d drop you out here and leave you to freeze in the goddamned Hoth that is Chicago right now.”

Ha ha!

This is an awesome episode of Break Ups: The Series, which takes place in a blizzard.

There’s many fun things going on in this episode, one of the biggest is that they were shooting in a blizzard so the scene is entirely about the blizzard.

Ted Tremper really knows what he’s doing, and by keeping the frame wide and having the couple argue in blizzard blown silhouettes means that we can enjoy the worst night of their lives at a remove. Hearing them talk about very specific stuff, but all we see is them waving their arms around and stumbling through the snow gives us a sense of detached voyeurism.

Plus, the scene improvised by Jagodowski and Thomas is hilarious in a “I’m glad its not me” way that avoids the cringe type comedy some of the other episodes go for. It is so over the top silly, and both characters are giving as good as they get. Some other break up scenes clearly have a good guy and bad guy, not here. Here they’re both in full on assault mode.

A lot of the individual lines are pretty funny, and I’m a bit awed by how specific the moments and the back stories are for an improvised piece.

I like this series a lot, but this one is one of my favourite episodes.

From YouTube Description:

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Instead of staying in last night, we decided to brave the Blizzard of 2011 and do some shooting. We sincerely hope you like it!

Improvised by
TJ Jagodowski
Katie Thomas

Sound by
Jared Larson

Directed, Edited, Shot by
Ted Tremper

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