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 said it once before, but it bears repeating — I love Canada, and Canadian things. And very high up on that list, just below Catriona Le May-Doan, but above curling and the fact that Canadian cities have names like Moose Jaw, are the girls from Seeking Simone. They’re just so funny. If you have also become enamored with the lovely canucks, you’re in luck; today they’ve released the first episode in the Seeking Simone companion series, Ask Audrey.

Audrey is the Kato to Simone’s Green Hornet (stretching there, I know, but who doesn’t love OG Green Hornet? And I didn’t think many people would get “the Joan McCusker to Simone’s Sandra Schmirler.”) She’s always ready with dating advice, but doesn’t really have to live it, being happily married and all. That “helpful” advice prompted an exchange where “Simone suggested that I get my own online dating vlog, and crawl out of her ass.”

And with that, Ask Audrey was born. Audrey will be dispensing her pearls of dating wisdom every Friday on the Seeking Simone site, and you can even get in on the game by sending @Ask_Audrey a message on twitter, or using their handy form. The first episode, which involves Audrey’s mother,  teabagging, and a lot of air-quotes, is embedded after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

The last couple weeks of Webisode Clack have had a lot of relationshippy (new word!) comedy. Funny Canadian lesbians… Urkel getting married… The obvious next step is, of course, ninjas! KarmaKula: Mystic Warrior comes to us from the Ninjai Gang. That name might ring a bell. If you have been partaking of the internet for a reasonable length of time, there is a good chance that at some point you stumbled upon their earlier work, Ninjai – The Little Ninja. It’s a flash based cartoon that has been around for years, and having watched it all again this week, it’s still as captivating as ever.

The Ninjai Gang have shifted gears with KarmaKula, offering a live-action web series. It certainly shares a certain style and feel with The Little Ninja, but what really sets KarmaKula apart is the production value. Seriously. It’s amazing. Locations, cinematography, costumes, makeup, CG… it’s all top notch. The real highlight though, is the action sequences. In a word, they are un-fucking-believable. Have a look for yourself in the embedded episode after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

This week in webisode clack: lesbians and softball. And I don’t mean to imply anything by mixing those two together. It just happens that the lion’s share of my web video week was taken up by those two subjects.

First, we have the hilarious new show, Seeking Simone, which charts one woman’s path into the online dating world. As they put it, “Online dating has never been so gay.”  Then we’ll get into another of the benefits of  intervision — an outlet for sports that just can’t get traction on TV. And we’ll finish it all off with ESPN’s Jim Caple getting his pants pulled down in public as he gets struck out by a girl. Surely, that’s enough to get you to click through to the rest of the post. If not… what if I told you that fully 63% of this post is Canadian? Canadian! Read the rest of this entry »