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“You know whose opinions have way too much power? The reviewers. They can be so trashy and mean.”

Oh… it looks like the mysterious girl from the first episode was someone that Vivian knew. Interesting twist.

I feel like this episode is sort of the start to this series. I like the rich set up that it has and the conflicting desires of Vivian. She wants her old life, but it is gone. She wants her dad to be okay, but she wants to go see her girlfriend. I just wish a little more would happen in each episode - I like a strong sense of beginning, middle and end.

This is definitely we favourite episode so far.

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Anyone But Me S01E03 “Countdown”

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“God, could these kids be any shinier?”

In the first episode, we got to meet Vivian’s family and past life. In this one we get to know the kids at her new school.

It’s charming, but this episode still has that ‘slice of life’ feel. I like a little more of a story to my episodes, so they feel less like a scene, and more of a self contained story. I know, anyone who has taken a lit class will tell me how wrong I am, but I couldn’t help but feel at the end of this episode I wanted a little more conclusion. You would expect it from a TV episode. Why not a web series?

Anyone But Me S01E02 “New Alliance”

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“Do you do hugs?”

Guest reviewer Elize Morgan reviewed a more recent episode, so I thought I would start posting episodes from the beginning for those who haven’t seen it.

Anyone But Me is a perpetual fav when it comes to web series. It’s about a lesbian teenager who has to move away from New York, and the girl she loves, because her father became sick after 9/11.

It’s nice that the internet allows different groups to be themselves. If two girls kissed on mainstream TV it would either be pornographic and/or trigger a massive outcry. (See the latest non-controversy over Skins.) Here it is just treated like it is – normal.

I don’t know if I knew this and just forgot or what, but this is a Strike.tv show – the experiment by the Writer’s Guild of America to make web series during the Writer’s Strike back in… was it 2008? Many of those shows were quickly abandoned when the strike was over and the writers went back to actual paying jobs. It’s nice to see Anyone But Me started there and stuck around.

It’s always hard for me approaching a series that I have heard about over and over but haven’t really sat down to watch from the start. This first episode is a lot of set up and a little slice of life-y. We meet the characters, and Vivian moves in with her aunt, and that’s the episode. I’m not too sure where it’s going from here. But it is nice to add another straight drama to the shows we’re covering regularly on The Watch List – even if I just may be the only person who hasn’t seen this show.

Anyone But Me S01E01 “Heavy Lifting”

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In the aftermath of a turbulent trip to New York, Vivian and her friends have a day of unexpected encounters.

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With a third season currently on its way, Anyone But Me is one of the longest running dramas online. A series that hits all the right buttons in all the right ways.

The premiere of season two hands in on all the promises that it offered in season one – the drama, the questioning, the awkward pauses. It’s a soap opera with all that entails, but it offers a way for people who often don’t get a voice – lesbians, friends, and younger people living it “real” rather than the Hollywood stereotypes.

It hits an audience for pretty much that entire reason:
http://www.anyonebutmeseries.com/Season2-c.html

It’s “realness” that allows some of the tiny issues that afflict so many soap operas (melodrama). Anyone But Me does more in a shorter time than most longer form series and is a great run already.

Anyone But Me S02E01 “The Real Thing”