Today we’re going to offer you, the tried-and-true CliqueClack reader, a two-for-one special. Not only will we be reviewing the latest set of webisodes from The Office, but we’ll also be giving away a sweet package, courtesy of NBC Universal Comcast (sorry, got ahead of myself there).

For the latest round of Office webisodes, the creators have taken a page from the continuing surge in everything musical, and whipped up a small story — a behind-the-scenes look, shall we say — about a music video produced at the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of Dunder Mifflin. Not a video by one of the hottest bands of today, like Bon Jovi or Ace of Base. Rather, this video was directed, written, and produced by two members of the D.M. staff.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Kelly Kapoor and Erin Hannon; otherwise known as the duet Subtle Sexuality.

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This week brings with it the premiere of another new web series, and it’s one that you kind of have to see to believe. It’s just so out there. Those of you that take your sci-fi comedy with two cubes of absurd will feel right at home. If you’ve worn worn out the grooves on your Red Dwarf DVD, and read the words right off the pages in your Hitchhiker’s Guide collection, Hurtling Through Space At An Alarming Rate could be just the thing to satisfy that bizarro urge. Read the rest of this entry »

With Halloween just around the corner, it seems fitting that we turn our web series attention toward something with a bit of a macabre twist. Dead and Lonely, new this week from IFC, looks rather unassuming at the start. We follow along as two people, Lee and Justin, meet through exactly the kind of dating site you’ve seen a hundred times on the Internet. Well, almost exactly. The look is there, but as the name of the site (dateordie.net) suggests, there is something a little bit different about the way things work on this one. Read the rest of this entry »

I continue to be amazed at the sheer number of shows that are out there on the Internet, just waiting to be watched. And, happily, by the fact that a lot of them are really good. This week, we return to the comedy realm to check in on the guys from Guess Again. The show, at its core, is dead simple: Dean (Paul Carganilla), Jeremy (Keith Toll), and Rex (Max Abrams) are roommates, and they have strange conversations. It never really gets much more complicated than that, and that’s okay. Because the real gem of this one is in the writing. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s that time of year kids. Halloween is right around the corner. And in my little world that means horror movies. Lots of them. With blood by the bucketful. You can’t just jump right in to a crazy Friday The 13th marathon without warming up though. You might pull something. Thankfully, the fine folks over at Uncanny Entertainment are hard at work on the perfect pre-bloodbath prep. That would be The Scare Game. The show is a horror comedy from writer/director Phil Hughes, and for fans of horror, it has the potential to be a very fun ride. Read the rest of this entry »

We’re taking a bit of liberty with the Webisode Clack column this week, to talk about a new show on Comedy Central, Secret Girlfriend. The show premiered with the first of six ordered episodes on Wednesday night. It’s notable here, though, because of its history. Secret Girlfriend started out as a mobile phone series, and then was later released as a web series through Atomic Wedgie.

That’s the interesting bit, because we haven’t seen a lot of shows make that jump from the web to broadcast. And the most notable one, quarterlife, did not fare well at all. Fortunately for Secret Girlfriend, it looks to be in a much better place. Not only is it a better match for its network, as the content fits the Comedy Central style very well, but it also has the luxury of South Park as a lead-in. On top of that, it’s also really funny. Read the rest of this entry »

First Kafka made Gregor wake up as a bug. Now, Drex Greene is waking up in a body bag.  Sony pictures is venturing into webisodes (jumping on the same bandwagon as NBC with The Office and SyFy with Battlestar Galactica, to name two others). In Woke Up Dead, Jon Heder, probably best known for playing the starring role in Napoleon Dynamite, plays Drex Greene, just a regular guy in his twenties, who wakes up in a body bag, scaring the young medical student tech (Krysten Ritter from 27 Dresses and Breaking Bad) who was presumably about to slice him open for an autopsy (or cut his clothes away, who knows?)

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