PostHuman Ep.2 “Strange Bedfellows”

In “Strange Bedfellows,” Detective Porter goes to an old friend for help in his new case. Problem is…are they still friends?

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“Then tell me why I shouldn’t bury you out here?”

Quick note: Be careful about using still frames as an artistic choice for your web series. A few times I thought the streaming had cacked out.

Amid the cliche film noir scenes and the low budget gambit of talking about stuff we don’t see, there’s something to this series about a guy with a tragic past and a voice in his head.

I just wish we could pick up the pace. This series is clearly written as scenes instead of episodes, which is tricky in web series.

There is a nice touch with the voice in his head mentioning a “she” and leaving that hanging until the end to resolve for us.

An interesting show.

PostHuman Ep.1 “Strain Theory”

“Strain Theory” finds private investigator Charlie Porter presented with a new case by a mysterious woman who knows more about his past…and his neuroses…than he’d like.

2 Swirlies

“It’s my partner’s voice you’re hearing inside your head.”

Black and white. Conspiracy about collapsing bee hives. Both strong hints that this is gonna be a self indulgent, cliched series.

Black and white, you probably know that one already. But this thing with the bees, there’s something about it that makes the over-educated student-for-life types wanna make a web series. I know, that’s mean, but I’ve seen a bunch of unwatchable web series about the missing bees. (Very few of them worth even posting here.)

The biggest problem with this series is the sound – I had to watch it twice to get a lot of what happens in the long stretch of dialogue in the middle.

Another problem is that this is one of those series that they expect you to read their website to understand what’s going on. That’s where I read about the bees. I guess, in their defense, I don’t think they share their videos too much outside of their website, which is what I’m doing here.

This episode does manage to avoid the “all set up” problem of many series. Sure, there’s lots of explaining and providing of information, and even if this scene could have been stolen from any one of dozens of hard boiled detective stories and movies, at least there’s a shape to it – the beautiful woman wants to hire him, and in order to get his attention reveals she has the key to something he wants. And by judging by the look on his face at the end, something he wants badly.

So… I’ll bite. Besides the bees and the black and white and the low rating, I’ll stick around to see what they are for us in the second episode.