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Perrie Voss and Heidi Lynch in Avocado Toast the series

Review: Avocado Toast the series

Leave a Comment / Streaming, Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / August 13, 2020 / Annie Briggs, Avocado Toast the series, Brenda Robins, Faye Marsay, Heidi Lynch, Kristian Bruun, Mag Ruffman, Nelu Handa, Perrie Voss, Scott Cavalheiro, season 1

Avocado Toast the series showed up as I was digging around in the obscure regions of Prime Video. It’s a Canadian web series. Season 1 has 11 very short episodes.

Review: Impulse, season 2

2 Comments / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / December 31, 2019 / Alexis Ostrander, Angel Giuffria, Callum Keith Rennie, Craig Arnold, Daniel Maslany, Enuka Okuma, Impulse, Jeffrey Lieber, Jill Robertson, Maddie Hasson, Maggie Kiley, Mairzee Almas, Matt Gordon, Missi Pyle, Sarah Desjardins, season 2, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Sydney Freeland, Tara Rosling, Women Directors

Impulse, season 2, is packed with high emotion and action. Henry (Maddie Hasson) struggles to figure out what to do about her suddenly discovered power to teleport. All around her, the situation goes from bad to worse.

Revisiting Limetown after season 1 ended

2 Comments / TV series, Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / November 18, 2019 / Janet Kidder, Jessica Biel, Kandyse McClure, Limetown, Marlee Matlin, Omar Elba, Rebecca Thomas, Sherri Saum, Stanley Tucci, Women Directors

I wrote about Limetown after seeing only the first 4 episodes of this Facebook Watch series. Now I’ve seen all of the first season and wanted to update some thoughts on the series.

Review: Limetown, episodes 1 – 4

3 Comments / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 25, 2019 / Jessica Biel, John Beasley, Kandyse McClure, Kelly Jenrette, Limetown, Omar Elba, Rebecca Thomas, Sherri Saum, Stanley Tucci, Vera Frederickson

Limetown popped up on Facebook Watch. It stars Jessica Biel as a journalist investigating a 15 year old mystery that she has a personal connection with.

Review: Impulse, season 1

9 Comments / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / October 24, 2019 / #eldersrock, Callum Keith Rennie, Craig Arnold, David James Elliott, Enuka Okuma, Helen Shaver, Impulse, Jeffrey Lieber, Kristian Bruun, Lois Smith, Maddie Hasson, Maggie Kiley, Mairzee Almas, Matt Gordon, Missi Pyle, Rebecca Johnson, Sarah Desjardins, season 1, Sydney Freeland, Tanner Stine, Valerie Weiss, Women Directors

Impulse is an action-packed YouTube original. At its heart, it’s about sexual violence and assault. Wrapped around that heart is a blanket of mystery and sci fi about special powers. It’s a compelling combination, and very well done.

Rachael Hip-Flores and Nicole Pacent in Anyone But Me

Review: Anyone But Me

Leave a Comment / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / January 4, 2018 / Alexis Slade, Anyone But Me, Barbara Pitts, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dan Via, How to Get Away with Murder, independent film, Jessy Hodges, Joshua Holland, Liza Weil, Mitchell S. Adams, Nicole Pacent, Rachael Hip-Flores, Susan Miller, Tina Cesa Ward, Women Directors

Anyone But Me is a web series, available on Amazon Video, YouTube, at anyonebutmeseries.com, and Hulu. There have been 3 seasons so far. It’s about two 16 year old high school girls who fall in love. They live in New York City. One of them is forced to move to the suburbs of Westchester because of her father’s injuries received …

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Watch This: Teaser for Flip the Script

3 Comments / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / June 20, 2017 / Ally Iseman, Amy Landecker, Flip the Script, Ian Harding, Jeff Garlin, Jerrika Hinton, Lake Bell, trailers

Flip the Script is a web series from Women in Film. It takes real situations and changes the genders to create a comedic series about gender parity and representation.

Review: Her Story

Leave a Comment / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / December 27, 2016 / Angelica Ross, Caroline Whitney Smith, Christian Ochoa, Fawzia Mirza, Her Story, Jen Richards, Josh Wingate, Kristina Mitchell, Laura Zak, Sydney Freeland, transgender, Women Directors

Her Story is a web series about the T in LGBTQ. Transgender people and their problems are often overlooked by both the LGBTQ community and the larger society as well. Web series like this one can help change that.

Betty White & Mindy Kaling are funny women from WhoHaHa

WhoHaHa Has Funny Women

1 Comment / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / April 8, 2016 / Betty White, elders rock, Elizabeth Banks, Mindy Kaling, WhoHaHa

Elizabeth Banks announced the arrival of WhoHaHa: Spotlight on Funny Women. The site is up and running and ready to make you laugh. Banks has an important announcement for men, “After years of taking 90 percent of lead comedy roles and being forced to appear nightly on stand-up stages around the globe, we are here to relieve you of your …

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Zehra Fazal plays Titus, Corey Walter Johnson plays Dronicus in Titus and Dronicus

Let Titus and Dronicus Bring a Smile to Your Face

Leave a Comment / Web Series / By Virginia DeBolt / March 17, 2016 / Corey Walter Johnson, independent film, Kate Williams Grabau, Liz Rizzo, Madhuri Shekar, Matt MacNelly, Megan Kelly, Seamus Sullivan, Titus and Dronicus, Women Directors, Zehra Fazal

Three short videos make Titus and Dronicus a brief foray into the delightfully nutty Hollywood world of Hamlet. Directed by Liz Rizzo and written by Megan Kelly, Madhuri Shekar, and Seamus Sullivan, this tale is the antidote to everything you’ve suffered lately.