Tights and Fights: Ashes – March 7th until 20th

A Watch List Original!

Tights and Fights: Ashes is a hilarious, ongoing web diary comedy about the private lives of super heroes. You can jump to the Tights and Fights website, or you just keep watching from here.

There’s two playlists to keep you caught up on all the wacky super hero goings on. Enjoy!

Tights and Fights: Ashes – Chapter 2 from the start!

A Watch List Original!

Tights and Fights: Ashes is a hilarious, ongoing web diary comedy about the private lives of super heroes. You can jump to the Tights and Fights website, or you just keep watching from here.

When we got behind in posting here on The Watch List, we missed the start of Chapter 2 of Tights and Fights: Ashes. So here it is!

Playlist Special – Funemployed!

Because this week’s catch up Friday Night Playlist was so long, I thought I’d pull the four episodes of Funemployed out and give them their own playlist.

This was reviewer j2′s favourite show, and she tore through them in a hurry! If you want to start watching from the beginning, you can either go to the first episode here or check out their category page.

Or, if you just wanna catch the last four episodes, here they are!

Total Running Time: 30 minutes

Also, make sure to check out the full Friday Night Playlist for March 5!

Friday Night Playlist! – March 5, 2011 | The Best Web Series Episodes from The Watch List

Phew! Bet you didn’t think I’d make it this week, did you?

Well, despite the fact that it has been close to a month since the last one, here we are the first week in March and we have an awesome, jam packed Friday Night Playlist for you to enjoy. In fact, it was so jammed packed that I decided to give Funemployed it’s own playlist – this playlist was an hour and a half when I first put it together!

So, I’m sorry I missed most of February, but… we all know February sucks anyway. You’ve been very patient. Here’s your reward. Make it full screen, hit play, and let the magic moving pictures ease your troubled mind.

Total Running Time: 44 minutes

All the episodes that got rated 4 or 5 Swirlies from February 11th to March 4th! Yep, lots of good stuff – and some season finales, too.

First up is the last episode of the scandalously overlooked Co-op of the Damned. They’re raising money for their second season, so if you like it, consider helping them out a little! This episode isn’t the single best one of the four they did, but it got some good laughs from me all the same.

And then there’s new ‘favourite of the blog’ Microwave Porn. Funny, these guys are not only shooting more Microwave Porn but are actually working on another show! This episode is a wild one – if you thought a talking, pron addicted microwave named Alan was as weird as this series was going to get, you were wrong.

Followed by well established ‘favourite of the blog’ Space Hospital. I think I mentioned in the review but what is amazing about this series is that they nail the science story part, and the jokes and parody parts. It’s easier watched than done. This is a show that’s already in their second season. Do a hear a third?

Ha! I guess there’s a theme to these episodes. Bob and Andrew is also deep in production of season two as I write this. In this episode, Bob’s dating life seems to be stuck on a spiraling loop. I’m glad to see it’s not more of what we had in episode three, which was funny but more of just a monologue by Bob. Here we get to see how Bob and Andrew help each other with their problems.

Episode 6 of The Virgin Mattress – I thought this one was the finale of season one, but a quick check of their website proved me wrong. Why can’t I find episode 7 on their YouTube channel? Oh, I can hear my father’s voice right now, “You looked but you didn’t look.” Anyway, it just means more to post. In this episode I really like the gag that happens when the thieves drive off.

Okay, here’s a new one. I don’t usually come across web series out of the blue, that seem to have no promotion, and are actually good. As far as I can see from this first episode, Tyranny is one of them. And there’s a bunch more already posted. So enjoy this one, and we’ll both look forward to more.

And we end with the champ – and it’s end. Untitled Fiction Project set the standards of web series drama. And here’s how it’s first series ends. They’re taking requests for next season – if you have any drop them a line! What do you think would make a good Untitled Fiction Project 2?

And that’s it for this week – except make sure to check out the post featuring the last four episodes in season one of Funemployed. If I didn’t have so many videos to go through, they’d be in this list too!

Until we meet again, I’ll be watching…

Friday Night Playlist! – Feb 11, 2011 | The Best Web Series Episodes from The Watch List

Hey there! It’s nice to see you all, thanks for coming!

Sit right here – we’ve saved you the best seat in the house for this week’s Friday Night Playlist!

Total Running Time: 38 minutes

All the episodes that got rated 4 or 5 Swirlies from February 4th to February 10th! This is our favourite stuff, you lucky lucky web series fans!

We’ve got 7 videos for you this week.

So far, it seems that “The Rooftop” is the only episode of the series Aidan 5. Normally we try to find series with more than one episode (or at least ones that appear to be in active release). I’ll be honest with you and say I’m not sure we’ll ever see another episode of this series. I don’t know anything about the creators, but the web is littered with web series that posted one episode and then abandoned. Anyway, this one is so cool (despite some of its flaws) that we stuck it up anyway.

And then there’s Space Hospital. Oh, I’m sure our regular readers/viewers are sick of hearing me go on about how much I love this series. This one’s a pretty good one, too – they pack a lot of sci-fi parody into their short episodes.

We’re slowly catching up with our next series, Microwave Porn. It’s a guy looking for love while living with a porn addicted microwave. Many people would take this concept, and turn it into a one note joke. The team calling themselves Cancelproof has been able (at least over three episodes) to keep it fresh while staying true to their formula. And yes, it is very much character driven – no mean feat for a show about a talking microwave!

Smack dab in the middle of the playlist is -oh boy – the second last episode of Untitled Fiction Project. James makes a deal with Nicolette, and leaves us on the edges of our collective seat waiting to see how episode 13 – the last episode – plays out!

Then we’ve got two new series for you – both of which leave a little to be desired in the production department, but have some nice characters and interesting stories. Give them a chance, and I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised. The first is Radiance, which adds the series twist right at the end (so often mishandled, but here done up nice, we think) and The Resolve. The Resolve we principally like for the monologue that takes up the middle of the episode – that’s a strong performance from the actor/writer/director/ producer/etc., and lets the episode rise above the normal run of the mill vanity projects.

And finally, batting clean up, is Throwing Stones! This episode sets up why we’re all here… and teases us with what’s coming next…

And that’s it! We hope you like this week’s Friday Night Playlist, packed full of this week’s best web series episode featured on The Watch List!

Tights and Fights: Ashes – Jan 23rd to Jan 31st!

A Watch List Original!

Tights and Fights: Ashes is a hilarious, ongoing web diary comedy about the private lives of super heroes. You can jump to the Tights and Fights website, or you just keep watching from here.

Tights and Fights: Ashes episodes from January 23rd to the 31st! This takes our heroes and villains to the end of Chapter 1 – and a very exciting end it is!

Chapter 2 starts February 14th!

Friday Night Playlist – Feb 4th, 2011 | The Best Web Series Episodes from The Watch List

Hola! You made it through another week and here’s your reward. Hit play, make it full screen, and then settle back and watch. You don’t have to hunt down the best stuff. You worked hard all week. You earned this.

Total Running Time: 32 minutes

All the episodes that got rated 4 or 5 Swirlies from the past week.

We gotta a lotta fun ones this week. There’s two news series – Throwing Stones is pretty new to the web, and Dick Figures is only new to The Watch List. Funemployed is reviewer j2′s current go-to show, but I think this is the first time it has made The Friday Night Playlist. And we’re nearing the end of power house Untitled Fiction Project. When they’re not making it no more, we may just have to retire its jersey.

In fact, it is Untitled Fiction Project that starts this list. The short episode, long on tension, short on plot, should leave you on the edge of your seat – especially if you have been watching from the beginning.

But there’s no time to relax. New show Throwing Stones is a welcome addition to the world of web series – a well done horror/thriller. Or teen horror, as they seem bent on calling it.

To transition you into the comedies, we have Vampire Mob, in which a creature of horror – a vampire – has to deal with his family now that he’s turned his wife.

And then we go right into the belly laughs, with the first episode of Dick Figures posted on the Watch List – this one a fun Inception parody. If you haven’t seen Inception, you might not get all the jokes but you’ll still get a good laugh. I liked the God Cloud part.

Next is a fun episode of Funemployed. This show is very popular amongst Asian web series watchers. KevJumba is something of an internet celebrity for Asian watchers. You white people have never heard of him, have you? Well… I wouldn’t be surprised if he breaks into the main stream in a TV show or movie in the next couple of years. And maybe then you will remember fondly the days of The Watch List, where you saw him first, in these halcyon days before the cyborg invasion came and changed everything. Ah, the future…

Okay, back on track. Oh, here’s a hysterical episode of Break-Ups: The Series. The first episode made me think it was all going to be that sort of dry, funny-but-painful kind of humour, but this one is plain flat out silly. Sure, it’s a bit dark, but that’s how I like ‘em.

And then there’s SPACE HOSPITAL. I hope that you love it like I do, because it is going to be on this list every week for months! And when we run out of episodes to post, I just may start posting on the Friday Night Playlist from the beginning, all over again! You have been warned.

That’s it for this week! I’m really curious how you guys are using The Friday Night Playlist. Do any of you watch it on your big TV? Or just your computer? Do you let it play through? Or do you just watch the ones you like? Leave a comment and let me know!

Friday Playlist – Jan 28, 2011 | The Watch List

Happy Friday, Watch List Watchers!

It’s time to relax with a Friday Playlist! And this one’s a good one, short and sweet.

Total Running Time: 21 Minutes

There’s only 5 videos this week. We’re starting you off the conspiracy thriller The Vetala. It is one of Stephanie’s new favs, so you’ll see it popping up here with a little but more regularity until the run of the series is finished.

And then there’s the first episode of the much beloved series “Anyone But Me” about a girl that has to leave behind New York, and her girlfriend.  Even if you have seen this series, it’s probably worth it to watch it again from the start.

We go from drama to comedy with The Break-ups, a series about the worst moment in many people’s lives. This episode is particularly hilarious – not the same watch and cringe funny as the first episode, but delightfully wacky and fast paced.

And speaking of delightfully wacky, here’s the second episode of Microwave Porn. Will Dave ever score with a date while he’s living with a porn addicted microwave?

And we close off with a surprise find this week – an episode of Moolt. I don’t yet understand this show – if it is even a show, as opposed to just a series of  random sketches, but I liked this one a lot because while I was watching I had no idea what to expect next. And the gag of the son trapped in the hotel room is pretty funny. The way they wrapped it all up was interesting, too.

So there you go. Have a great weekend and come back to see what next week brings!

Friday Playlist – Jan 21, 2011

It’s a new Friday Night Playlist!

Dim the lights, kick your feet up, and forget all about the troubles of your week.

Total Running Time: 32 Minutes

We’re going to try to send these out Friday mornings, so that those of you following along via email subscription can have them waiting in your inbox for your evening enjoyment. Yeah, I know, we weren’t very good at putting them out Friday evening to begin with, but we’ll give it a try.

This weeks list is a little short, but fun. First up is a new show, The Variants, about a bunch of folk that work in a comic shop. It was the ending that really got me. I hope I’m not giving it away by saying I think they are going for a Tim and Dawn (from the U.K. Office) vibe.

Second is Bob and Andrew. Usually you have to get 4 or 5 swirlies to get on the Friday Night Playlist, but why have your own blog if you can’t do whatever it is you want? You’ll be seeing Bob and Andrew a lot on future Friday Night Playlists, and the list was rather short, so I figured it would be a good idea to put this one in. Despite it being not quite up to the previous two episodes, there’s still a few good jokes in there.

Oh – next is Co-Op of the Damned. One of the most tragically overlooked web series there is. This is one funny series, and this episode is no exception. And I think we have all lived with this guy, right?

And a new episode of Space Hospital. It seems like we’re into a lot of #3 episodes this week. Again, this one isn’t quite as funny as the first two, but still pretty awesome. Who doesn’t love a Jamie Summers reference? I love the way it gets those Star Trek-esque science cliches so damned perfect – lovingly paying homage to them while at the same time ripping them to shreds as only the wacky Space Hospital crew can.

And then we have a double barreled Untitled Fiction Project. I often try to end on a comedy, but nothing is going to follow that last scene – the look in her eyes will haunt me until the day I die.

Have a great Friday, a great time watching, and an awesome weekend.

Tights and Fights: Ashes – Catch Up to Jan 14th!

We took a holiday break at the end of December, and so I have noticed that we about a month behind in keeping you up to date with the hilarious super hero video diary comedy, Tights and Fights: Ashes!

You can jump to the Tights and Fights website, or you just keep watching from here!

Tights and Fights: Ashes episodes from December 11 until December 17:

Tights and Fights: Ashes episodes from January 10 to 14: