Moolt “Computer Love” | A Web Series on The Watch List

A Cartoon Comedy Web Series

3 Swirlies

“Who says laziness is a bad thing? It keeps families together.”

If you follow my reviews as The Watcher, you may have figured out that I tend to cheer for the little guys. Case in point: the cartoon web series Moolt.

I really like this series. I think the writing, voice work and animation is really great - especially for what I assume is some guy working alone in his room. This episode has 25,000 views at the time of this writing; hardly a complete unknown. Space Hospital, on the other hand, still has most of its episodes under a thousand. But still, Moolt’s the underdog compared to Happy Tree Friends. Everyone talks about Happy Tree Friends, despite Moolt being, in my opinion, the much funnier, fresher show.

Well, except maybe this episode. There’s some funny bits in there, but the main joke is the wife cleans up things and the husband doesn’t know where they are, and blames her when his computer goes missing. Not exactly breaking new comedic ground. Their other episodes are much funnier, and much more original. At least, to me.

From YouTube Description:

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An Armenian man named Harut, has lost his computer and is out to find it. His number one suspect? His wife Sophik.

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Take Me Back Ep.7 | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Comedy Web Series

3 Swirlies

Take Me Back – Chapter 7 from Joe and Seth on Vimeo.

“Okay, but then who the fuck is that in the kitchen?”

This series started so strong, but I feel like it’s been running in place for the past three or four episodes.

I think the problem is that this show has an interesting plot, but not particularly interesting characters. For many screenwriters who have read Sid Field, (or even ones that haven’t, it has become something of a screenwriter clutch) the story is divided into 3 acts, which is really just a pretentious, ‘How To book’ selling way to say beginning, middle and end. The middle, the act 2 of movies, is the hard part because it is easy to fall into the trap of having your characters spin their wheels until enough has happened that they can head for the ending you have planned. And that’s kinda what’s happening here – the middle of the story isn’t the interesting part but the writers need certain things to happen in order to get to the ending… only those certain things aren’t particularly surprising or interesting.

In the case of this episode, we’ve kinda seen much of this happening already. In fact, we kinda could have skipped from episode… 4 maybe to this one without anyone feeling like they’ve missed much (with a little tweaking of the writing, perhaps.) I mean, I get it – plot wise you could argue that stuff has happened, we haven’t been staring at a blank screen, but has enough information been revealed, either of the plot or the characters, in the past three or so episodes?

Well, there’s only three episodes left, so I hope we’re headed into the Act Three, the end, and that some cool, surprising stuff will happen like it did in the first four or so episodes.

From Vimeo Description:

Allan tries to make amends with Emma, while Al waits patiently for the results of his last phone call.

This is the seventh 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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Camera Obscura Ep.4 “The Hollow Mask” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Horror Webseries

3 Swirlies

Episode 4: The Hollow Mask by Camera_Obscura

“As long as this book remains intact…”

Whoops. Clara watches a video tape made by her grandfather… but a little bit too late. You’d think he’s put a big sticker or something on the magic book… “DO NOT BURN.” But he didn’t. And she did.

This episode sets the rest of the series in motion. Most of it is simply explaining to us what the grandfather was up to. There’s no scares or shocks like in the previous ones. I’m also a little worried that it has taken the wind out of the rest of the series by explaining the mystery.

Certainly worth watching if you’re following the series.

From Daily Motion Description:

A message in a bottle from a dead man…

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Heather’s Vlog “Heather and Her Dad Watch Rebecca Black Video” | A Web Series Review on The Watch List

A Vampire Comedy Web Series

3 Swirlies

“Back in the day, you had to work to be famous. Like Aretha Franklin and Pee Wee Herman.”

We’ve been so focused on keeping on top of the current shows that we are following, that I forgot to keep an eye on one of my favourite series, Heather the Vampire! I see there’s been a few posts since Heather’s return, and here’s the first one.

I gotta say, maybe I’m in a bad mood today, because I wasn’t blown away, despite how excited I was to see it. There’s some funny bits, but really they’re just making fund of Rebecca Black and not doing their usual shtick. I think maybe that was the point, I get the feeling this is a micro-episode, not a full on episode. It is kinda of my fault – I’m sure when the video was first posted was much closer to the debut of Rebecca Black’s video than it is today.

Anyway, the world still hasn’t gotten over Rebecca Black, so do yourself a favour and watch Heather and her dad’s take on it. Like I say, there’s some funny bits.

And I look forward to Heather’s next video.

From YouTube Description:

Heather decides to show her dad what all the fuss is about with Rebecca Black’s Friday video. Do you think they’ll like it?

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Night of the Zombie King Ep.5 “Thoughts of Darkness” | A Web Series Review on the Watch List

A Drama Web Series

3 Swirlies

“Back then, it was the last time that I felt like I was good, you know?”

Okay then.

If I could split up my review, I’d give the first half of this episode of Night of the Zombie King a 1 and the second half a five.

I don’t get it. How can one scene make me want to just skip posting it, and the next scene make me want to sing its praises from the hilltops? When it is the real world, drama stuff it is at once cheesy and artificial. When it is the game stuff… the series soars. Is it just the music that gets me? Maybe, but I don’t think so.

When it comes to the real world stuff, I keep wanting someone to shrug and say, “We were kids. Now we’re adults. Let’s deal with some adult stuff.” I got nothing against adults playing games, I do have a problem with adults obsessing over some poor choices they made in high school and crying because they wanted to recapture the magic of sleep overs.

And when it comes to the game play stuff, I’m surprised and delighted, despite the fact that I’m struggling with myself not to turn it off. It grabs me, it drags me back in to the fiction, it makes me like it. It works, it feels more real than the drama scenes. But then, you couldn’t really have a show that was just a group of people playing the game? You have to have the game resonate with what’s going on the actual lives of the characters. That’s where the game play adds a strong dramatic value.

From Blip Description:

Jaz pursues Hicks, trying to coax him back into the game. Hicks explains his difficulty in coming to terms with the past, and they stumble upon a plan to salvage the adventure. Featuring music from Bellavista – www.thevue.com/bellavista

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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.

Watch the Entire series! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXiK_2JhBxw&feature=li…

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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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Orange Juice in Bishops Garden S01E02 “Will You Be There Tonight?” | A Webseries Review on The Watch List

A Drama Web Series

3 Swirlies

“There are way better songs. It’s like for people who buy greatest hits CDs.”

This episode of Orange Juice in Bishops Garden had more in the way of rough edges than the first one. I loved the first episode of this webseries. Not so sure about this one. (Sorry guys.)

Where as the dialogue and the acting in the first episode felt raw and a little forced, but charming and fresh, this episode doesn’t seem to know where it is going or what it wants to be, and  the flaws feel so much more exposed. And there’s some not so great acting – especially of people acting drunk.

But at the same time, I do like these characters – what attracted me to the first episode is still here; the chemistry between our two main characters, the one girl who hates her perky sister but has to rely on her for a ride… that stuff is interesting to me and rings true. The drunk guy who forgets how to pee… not so much. Oh, I did like the scene where the guy tries to shotgun a beer but it all but explodes all over his face. I feel like probably much of what happens in this episode is based on real stuff, and so it feels kinda obvious and anecdotal. (Is this the case? If someone involved with this show is reading this, maybe you could let us know in the comments below?)

Sometimes it’s hard for a writer – any writer, no matter how experienced – to keep their secondary characters from taking over the scenes from the main characters. Secondary characters are often more broad, and therefor they can be more motivated. When your character is more nuanced, it is easy for their complicated motivations to get lost in a scene where, for example, someone just wants to pee. Plus, writerly types are more observational by nature, so they tend to write characters that observe rather than act. This is pretty much true of all fiction writers, everywhere.

Anyway, I’m still hooked enough to be looking forward to episode 3!

From YouTube Description:

Tonight is the night. The party gets started in the infamous Bishops Garden. And don’t you worry there will be mischievous and slightly unfortunate happenings. Sarah & Kris get Maggie shot-gunning some brewskies, hoping it’ll keep her from macking on Sara’s crush, Jake. The plan goes awry though, when Maggie gets bold instead. Um, looks like cold 40′s & love triangles don’t mix! As if that weren’t bad enough — then, the cops come…

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“Orange Juice in Bishop’s Garden” (OJBG) is a fiercely local and independent web series set in Washington, D.C. about the lives of a group of teenagers in the summer of 1994.

Visit us at http://OJinBG.com/ to check out our episodes, blog, news updates, character bios, and more!

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“The bad things we do. The things we get caught for–and how they are never the same.”

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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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