Bob and Andrew S02E02 “The Meeting” | A Web Series on The Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“I’ve been seeing this guy, Spenser. He lacks facial hair but he’s a pretty nice fellow.”

YAY!

At the risk of a spoiler alert: Bob and Andrew reconcile!

The second episode from the second season of web series Bob and Andrew really brings it. It is set entirely at a coffee shop, as they try to convince each other, and themselves, that their lives are going great.

My one, minor complaint about this episode is the super narrow depth of field that they use in the close ups (foreground sharp, background fuzzy) made it a little too self consciously filmy for me.

What slams it out of the park, as always, is the writing and the chemistry between them. The quick cuts revealing the truth about their lives are hilarious, and I love the confident one liners that snap back and forth. Some of my favourite moments are the subtle taps at the fourth wall, like Andrew commenting on his imagined cut scene.

I feel like the previous episode was sort of a prologue to this season. Now that the boys are back together, will they be able to get their lives back on the rails? Structurally, the creators of Bob and Andrew, Bob and Andrew, just might have done something brilliant to refresh the stories they tell this season. I wonder if they will take advantage of it? Only episode three will tell.

From YouTube Description:

Bob and Andrew meet up to discuss their lives apart from each other.

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Vampire Mob S01E05 “You Can’t Choose Your Family” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Vampire Hitman Comedy Web Series

3 Swirlies

“I’m selling all my sunglasses online. I won’t even tell you how many pairs have.”

Living with his mother-in-law is about as bad as Don thought it was going to be. And it turned out that his “business” isn’t as recession proof as he had hoped.

From YouTube Description:

Closed-captioned for the hearing-impaired.

Episode Five - “You can’t choose your family” Starring: John Colella, Reamy Hall, Marcia Wallace, Chris Mulkey.

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Vampire Zombie Werewolf Ep.9 “Meta-Morphosis” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Comedy Horror Web Series

3 Swirlies

“Half vampire, half werewolf and one third zombie?”

There’s a really cool special effect at the end of this final episode, I honestly have no idea how they did that.

There’s a few really funny jokes in this episode, especially with the Vampires justifying their existence to the producer. My favourtie parts of this series was the producer dealing with the blood thirsty vampires, especially finding out his buddy was a vampire.

Where this series didn’t connect with me was all the stuff about web series. I can’t even really say why, except that I felt like it was out of place with everything else that was going on, and it was only kind of a MacGuffin to get the plot in gear… but the story never really evolved beyond it, like a typical MacGuffin. I never cared if they came up with a web series concept, but I did care if the producer got eaten by the vampires. On the same thought, I didn’t care if he got eaten by Tad and Bunny, because then the story would be over, and also the producer did very little to avoid being eaten by Tad and Bunny, while with the vampires it felt like a very present danger that he was struggling to avoid.

But KATR Productions did make it look and sound nice - a very slick and well produced project. I haven’t gone back and watched their previous effort yet, Life From the Inside, which is spoken about very highly from web series fans.

If someone from KATR Productions is reading this, we’d love it if you could leave a comment talking a little about “the head shot” and how you achieved it, or maybe just a hint about what your next series might be?

From YouTube Description:

Teeth are bared, hackles rise, and everything comes to a head. The thrilling conclusion of Vampire Zombie Werewolf Season 1.

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Space Hospital S02E06 “As The Worm Turns” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Sci-Fi Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“It’s good to meet a fellow super sentient mollusk. We should hang out some time.”

Awesome. This episode ties up one big plot line from this season and brings another one front and center to set up for the next episode – the last of season 2!

Epic jokes to watch out for: Scanner reference, big fake, prop rocks meta humour, Omacron suggesting a “five way.”

From YouTube Description:

Re: Robot Love, Deep Space Cuisine on a Budget…

As Space Hospital is threatened with absorption into the digestive tract of a giant space mollusk, a slightly less sinister threat still stalks the shadowy halls of the ship, making hapless nurses its victim. Can the newly revived Doctor Omacron cheat fate and save the crew?

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Bob and Andrew S02E01 “Fallout” | A Web Series on The Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“I understand a lot of things. Science, Kodiak bears, etc.”

One of my favourite buddy sitcomy comedies is back!

This episode of the Vancouver based web series Bob and Andrew pulls back on the wacky comedy of many of the episodes in the first season. It’s funny, but funny in a more dramedy, character based way. After the blow up of the last episode of the first season, Bob and Andrew aren’t on speaking terms, and they both seem to have messed up their lives.

The production seems to have stepped up a notch, with some really nice lighting and great sound work. It feels very crisp and sharp. The bar ambient sound background is nice when you take a moment to listen to it, which takes a lot of work to sound full without intruding on the dialogue.

While I think the writers, Bob and Andrew, did something smart in introducing new character dynamics, I miss the interaction between Bob and Andrew, It was their clear chemistry and back and forth – ‘we’re friends even though we almost never agree’ – that really drew me in. I miss them being together as much as they do, which makes me want to know what’s going to happen next, but I hope that it doesn’t take them the whole season to reconcile.

As with the first season, the writing is the real stand out in the show. Like I said, less pure out zany situational and more edging toward drama, but still strong.

From YouTube Description:

We pick up Bob and Andrew a while after the first season ended. They haven’t spoken in a while and so they’ve had to find a way to cope without the support of each other.

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Take Me Back Ep.6 | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

3 Swirlies

Take Me Back – Chapter 6 from Joe and Seth on Vimeo.

“I am open to you, I’m wide open. I’m like a golf tournament.”

In this episode of the web series Take Me Back, Al’s escape attempts with his cool radio phone sends his doppleganger’s attempts to woo Emma into a tail spin.

It’s cool and everything, and a good episode, but I feel like we’re coming aground on the complications inherit in the concept. First of all, where’s this show going? Many scripts and stories have their hardest time in what Sid Field called Act Two. Essentially, the middle stuff between the beginning and the end. It is hard to keep your story fresh, moving forward and interesting as you’re setting up what will be the ending. Here, I feel like the series is in a stall for the last couple of episodes. Al is stuck, and Allen is getting what he wants (until the end of this episode, maybe).

But what really starts tripping me up is the logic problems that you always run into in time travel. If the doubleganger, called Allen, is a future version of Al and has lived through what Al is living through, why does he always seem surprised at Al’s attempts to escape? Does he know what’s going to happen, or does he not know. In this episode, it is clearly implied that he should know – but he doesn’t. Maybe they’ll try to explain it away, but it starts to unravel if you pull at that thread.

As always – great acting, great filming. The static with the radio phone was great. This is very good show, but I feel like we’re not getting any deeper into the story or the characters, we’re just playing out the plot.

From Vimeo Description:

Al reaches out for help with his makeshift telephone while Allan spends the evening with Emma. Is either one successful?

This is the sixth of 10 chapters in the original web series, Take Me Back. New chapters air every Monday. Check the series out and leave your comments in its proper home at TMBtheseries.com

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Naomi The Show Ep.5 | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“This may seem crazy but I’m having a slumber party. On Saturday night.”

Ha! Even though you see the punch line coming a mile away, these guys really land it. That’s the joy of the show that is Naomi The Show, it’s short, punchy and it always has a strong punch line at the end. The last line never fails to make me laugh - both with genuine humour and with delight.

This show always has strong acting, too. Naomi Dayneswood is always spot on as someone who knows life is out to get her but can’t help herself but hope for the best, even when she’s sure that something awful is about to happen. You can see that tug of war in her, the expectation that this will blow up in her face but she’s too nice to not to get dragged along by the need to politely continue. Her scene partner is always good, but in this case Shane Kolmansberger is really awesome, charming and nuanced as “the buddy” type guy with an agenda.

Noami The Show is sweet, charming and consistently funny.

From YouTube Description:

In Episode 5, Naomi makes weekend plans with a classmate.

Created by Naomi Dayneswood & Jennica Harper
Director: Nicholas Humphries
Writer: Jennica Harper
Producers: Robert Woolsey & Naomi Dayneswood
Starring: Naomi Dayneswood & Shane Kolmansberger
Director of Photography: Christopher Charles Kempinski
Editor: Chad Galloway
Sound Design: Michael Scott Schrum
Makeup Design: Alyssa Satow & Katie Satow
Title Credit Design: Christopher Preksta
Music Composer: Chris King
Extras: Alyssa & Esmé Roberts

Proudly Supported by Vancouver Film School - http://www.vfs.com

See full crew listings at http://www.naomitheshow.com/cast-crew

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Microwave Porn Ep.12 “Unhaunted” | A Webseries Review on the Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“Nigel… pretty!”

So much awesome in one webseries episode I can barely begin.

Although, before I get into the awesome, I’ll just say that there’s sort of two stories here that are resolved separately, and could just as easily each made up one episode. After all, (spoiler alert!) The two stories in the end didn’t have much impact on each other.

But let’s get into the awesome: the Yeti is hilarious, both in his own storyline and in the “bonus” scene at the end. I’m also glad the hipster girl made another appearance, her eye rolling “above-it-all”ness is totally pitch perfect. Ash Catherwood is awesome, as usual. Even even more exciting, we get to see Ash in the up-coming season two of Out With Dad. I’m always happy to see Nigel in an episode. And even if this episode was light on the microwave, that’s okay. His willingness to give up Nigel at the drop of a hat is hysterical.

The production is very good, too. It may not look it (which is another way you know it is well done) but there are some difficult shooting and sound conditions - from some snowy woods to the inside of a van. And the whole time, the show doesn’t loose its focus. Comedy has to be presented just so in order for it to work, and these guys do it right so that the jokes feel natural.

From YouTube Description:

Nigel, Allen and Dave try to get the ghost out of Dave’s house.

Microwave Porn Opening Theme Written and Performed by J. Gordon Ross and Ryan Keller

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Space Hospital S02E05 “The Return of Omacron” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Sci-Fi Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“Is Nurse Barbara a nurse again or is just hanging around?”

What a great episode of Space Hospital, even though it more of a bridge episode with a cliffhanger (actually two of them) than a self contained story.

It’s a long one, but a lot happens. And it’s awesome slash hilarious stuff – from the Space Hospital running afoul of a nebula monster, to the whole break room scene that leads to Omicron’s Return, this episode lives up to the wackiness that has been series two of Space Hospital – and some great retro-y special effects.

From YouTube Description:

Re: Proper conduct in the breakroom…

Youtube Summary: Hot Nurse with Alien Fetish punks Nerdy Coworker

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Tights and Fights: Ashes – May 9th to May 13th – Super Hero Comedy Web Series

A Watch List Original Web Series

Tights and Fights: Ashes is a comedy web series and transmedia story about super heroes, told over YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. You can jump to the Tights and Fights website, or you just keep watching from here.

Hangovers, benders, and open-mouth kissing…not just a day in the life of Charlie Sheen anymore! Watch as The Plumber reaps the painful rewards of his first AAA ‘Cleaning’, and Trojy finally achieves his heart’s desire…or does he?

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