Vampire Mob S01E04 “Through the Tunnel” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Vampire Hitman Comedy Web Series

3 Swirlies

“We’re gonna need a much bigger donation.”

This is the broadest episode of the series, featuring a very funny blood salesman that our vampire hero goes to in order to make sure his wife has enough blood to drink.

This series is very well regarded, and they’re in production on their second season. The star, John Colella, is really strong in it (deliverig dialogue with those teeth isn’t as easy as you might think.) But it’s just not for me. It just doesn’t make me laugh. It makes me lightly snort from time to time, but it is just not my sensibility. Other people can’t get enough of it. That’s just the way of the world.

From YouTube Description:

Available with closed-captioning for the hearing impaired.

Episode Four - “Through the tunnel” Starring: John Colella and Chris Mulkey. More about Vampire Mob at http://www.VampireMob.com

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Vampire Zombie Werewolf Ep.8 “There Wolves” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Comedy Horror Web Series

3 Swirlies

“Yes yes, dear. You’re very brave.”

This is a long but funny episode where the Vampire, Zombie Werewolves must hide their werewolfy secret from the assembled vampires.

I really like the producer now that he has something to do. He’s clearly our POV on this, and since his fate this evening is tied with that of his hosts he has a reason to be a proactive character.

There’s a bunch of “breaking the fourth wall” type gags about the logic of the show, which I found pretty funny, and there’s a great scene about Tad not understanding the pictures showing the moon cycle on the calendar.

What I didn’t love was when the episode became about a play within a play, which was sort of a stall for the cliffhanger ending.

From YouTube Description:

The moon is full, the party’s hit a snag, and the Vampires’ blood is boiling. It’s time for Tad and Bunny to act.

VZW is a new Webseries from KATR Pictures.

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Microwave Porn Ep.11 “Haunted” | A Web Series Review on the Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“I have unresolved issues!”

Woah, so we have caught up with the current episodes of Microwave Porn, and it ends with a cliffhanger!

This episode is very funny, and most importantly it has more Nigel. There’s more zany happenings than your typical episode. We go from a haunting, to living in a van, to hunting a Yeti, nature’s assholes. Stand out moment is the one featured in the thumbnails, Ash Catherwood freaking out at the ghost is absolutely hysterical.

There’s a lot of things I admire about this show, but one big one is that they’re just a comedy. I like a lot of other shows that are, like, a science fiction comedy, or a vampire comedy, or whatever. Microwave Porn is only a comedy and they go for the funny. They’re not afraid to be wacky or silly if that gets them a laugh.

There’s a lot of self referential gags, which I don’t always love but this show makes it work. I hear tell they’re shooting more - so for now this is the last Microwave Porn, but we’ll throw up the new ones as soon they pop up!

From YouTube Description:

Allen and Nigel set out to find the mythical Yeti after Dave’s house gets haunted. MUSIC Umbrella Pants: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Decay: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons “Attribution 3.0″ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Microwave Porn Opening Theme Written and Performed by J. Gordon Ross and Ryan Keller

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Space Hospital S02E04 “Zombies of Morgue Zero” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Sci-Fi Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

“The Centrality does not negotiate with zombies! Or patients, for that matter.”

Another hilarious but somewhat rough episode of Space Hospital. In one scene, you can clearly see the boom mic at the bottom of the frame. I mean, it is not peeking in or “pushing” the edge of the frame, as boom ops say. It is full on in the shot and waving around… twice!

But for all its rough edges, Space Hospital is constantly funny. While it might not be for people who don’t already love science fiction, it is just so out and out enjoyable that I kinda don’t care about things like the occasional boom in the shot. Of course, the whole retro sci-fi look and feel makes it easier to accept production slips.

This episode has some of the funniest one liners of the series, and it pays off a bunch of set-ups from previous episodes, including the guns. The zombies are a lot of fun, too. I like the opening teaser that includes an ad for “Zombie Hospital” featuring free de-braining. Just before the zombie fight breaks out, Dr. Larry dramatically orders the computer to engage the fight music. Not the very best episode from Space Hospital, maybe, but one of the funniest.

From YouTube Description:

Re: Transacting with Space Zombies, Pros and Cons of…

Veem Aknar rejoins the Space Hospital crew to lend a skillful hand, as shaky un-dead relations culminate in a zombie showdown with explosive consequences.

Youtube summary: Sexy Retro Space Vixen Blasts Zombies with Atomic Raygun (Ray Gun)

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Tea, Biscuits & Incest Ep. 5 “The Incest” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Comedy Parody Web Series

5 Swirlies

“Except for the artificial insemination with your father’s sperm, I did not see that coming.”

How could you see anything coming in this over-the-top, anything goes, button pushing parody of soap opera plots?

This is the last episode of this crazy series guaranteed to offend someone. But they clearly had lots of fun making it. And that fun shows through. That’s not easy - not even from big budget movies.

Sadly Steve Anthopoulos’ next show, The 21 Conspiracy, isn’t as fun even though he seems to take making it more seriously - if that makes any sense.

From YouTube Description:

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Visit the official website: http://www.teabiscuitsandincest.spaceboy.com.au
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The season finale of the web series Tea, Biscuits and Incest. A final confrontation reveals more secrets before a surprise visitor changes their lives forever.

Written, produced and directed by Steve Anthopoulos. Staring Penny Hall, Roger Smith and Vlad Bajovski. Music by Owen James Matthews.

Thankyou to Natalie for helping out: www.youtube.com/communitychannel

Thankyou to all the show’s fans! Soon an outtakes reel including audition tape excerpts will be uploaded as well as a special bonus TBI video and more short films from Spaceboy productions.

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Take Me Back Ep.5 | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

4 Swirlies

Take Me Back – Chapter 5 from Joe and Seth on Vimeo.

“You know, most people don’t realize this, but looking up at the stars is kinda is like looking into the past.”

This episode of Take Me Back advances the plot and the story in an expository but interesting, fun way.

Short form web series may just be a dying art form. New series are going longer and longer with their episodes. Five minutes is not the average anymore, it is not unusual to find 10 minute or longer episodes. Which is a shame because there are certain things that are unique to short form web series. Like the structure of this episode. I see it a lot – I’m calling it a bridge episode.

It’s the sort of episode that gets us from story point A to story point B, but with short form there isn’t always enough time to be more than largely expository – to just kinda tell people what happens instead of creating a sharp arc to the episode that stands on its own. Of course, shows like Take Me Back are so serialized that if you don’t watch them in order you’ll probably be lost – in fact there’s two of the same person, so you’d be very confused!

For me, an episode that is just telling you stuff – exposition – without really creating a story (with a beginning, middle and end, rising stakes, conflict, character motivations, etc) does not make a good episode. But a bridge episode is the kind of sequence that writers sometimes refer to as “laying pipe,” which means prepping the ground work for the stuff that’s coming up. Like the scenes in the cop shows where they brief their boss? That’s laying pipe.

Besides that, this is a fun episode. Al manages to cobble together a cool looking jury rigged gadget that might be his ticket out…

From Vimeo Description:

Allan and Emma get a little closer while Al puts his technological knowhow to the test. Has he found a way out or will Allan take over his life before it’s too late?

This is the fifth 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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Moolt “I Have Bird” | A Web Series on The Watch List

A Cartoon Comedy Web Series

5 Swirlies

“He did it.”

I have not laughed that hard in a long time.

This is a silly series, almost sketch comedy, but I just think it is hilarious.

From YouTube Description:

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Best Laid Plans Ep.2 “Breaking & Entering” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

An Improvised Comedy Web Series

3 Swirlies

“We only need to look to episode 42 of Star Commanders”

I’m following this series because I accidentally watched an episode from later on, and now I’m going back posting them from the beginning.

I really liked the episode Tom’s Big Date. I kinda liked the dialogue and structure of the first episode, Dashboard Confessions. This episode is very well done, but in the end, its wackiness is its undoing.

There’s so much wacky over the top antics and plot going on that there’s not much in the way of character. At least in this episode, all these guys seem the same. The stories aren’t character driven, they are plot driven, which explains the long opening scene where the improvisers have to work in order to set up and motivate the actual story.

And for many people, the high energy plot and the funny one liners (“It’s cancer spray for dogs.”) will be enough for the three minutes or so that this episode runs for. There certainly doesn’t feel like there’s much in the way of down time - the episode is packed full of stuff going on. But as soon as the break in was set up, I knew where they were going with it. Plus, I didn’t really care. What was at stake was someone’s computer getting a virus in a way that would never be traced back to our guys. They could have simply gone to Dirk and said, “Sorry, my computer has a virus and it got on the disc.” Sure, it is fiction and we’re supposed to accept what the characters do, not scoff because its not what we think we would do. All I’m saying is, I didn’t care if they got the disc, and I didn’t care if they got caught. That doesn’t make for a very engaging episode.

Still, like I said, it is a very well produced series. If you’re looking for a way to mindlessly kill five minutes giggling at something on the internet you could do a lot worse.

From YouTube Description:

Felonies and misdemeanors are nothing when compared to rescuing a fair damsel’s computer from imminent viral doom.

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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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Tights and Fights: Ashes – April 2nd to May 6th – 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.

Two weeks worth of Tights and Fights hilarity!Fantabulous Gal starts up a new super hero team, with an old name. They say buy an existing business, right? Even the Plumber gets involved! Meanwhile, Leopard Woman’s worries about Ronin Force’s less than stellar new hires gets interrupted by an urgent phone call… from the underground kingdom of the cats!

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