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3 Free Web Series To Start Watching

May 4, 2016 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Shae and I have never paid for cable tv.  We are part of the growing segment of cord cutters who forgo the pricey cable/dish bills, endless ads, and channel flicking for entertainment.

If you haven’t cut the cord yet and moved on to Netflix, OTA (Over the Air), Youtube, Hulu, or any of the bazillion other cheap/free services, here are three shows you can watch right now for free on the internet.

Video Game High School (VGHS)

While this made for Youtube series can be found on Netflix, it is still available on Youtube (link here).

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The show centers around Brian D. an average teenager who through a near miraculous coincidence becomes enrolled at the prestigious Video Game High School.  Set in the not too distant future where video game players are reveled as celebrities, Brian’s luck and resulting pressure to perform are ginormous.

Over the course of the 3 seasons, the writers poke fun at games like FarmVille, Tamagotchi, Mario Kart, Tetris, Call of Duty (er “Field of Fire”) and many more.  If you have ever picked up a game, you will probably get at least some of the references made.

Season 2’s production value and storyline improves immensely as the success of the first season pays off.

S.O.S (Save Our Skins)

Another “Made for the Internet” show, SOS episodes (link here) are only 5 minutes long, but boy do they leave you scrambling to click on the next episode link.

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Two rather moronic British men on Holiday, find that they are all alone in NYC after waking up from a jet lagged evening.  Was it zombies, aliens, or gryphons that made everyone vanish.  Watch it to the end to discover if these two blokes are all that remain of humanity.

H+

I haven’t watched this series yet, but it comes highly reviewed and had a much larger budget than the previous two.  Set in the not too distant future, 1/3 of humanity has a computer implanted in their brain.

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Things start to get dicey when an epidemic breaks out.  A computer virus epidemic.  Watch it on Youtube (link here).

 

What web series do you like?  Leave a comment so we can check it out!

Posted in: Misc., Savings Tagged: indie, Internet, tv, vimeo, youtube

Controlling the airwaves… sorta

July 24, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

About a month ago I was going through our mail and I spotted a Nielsen envelope.  Giddy, I ripped into it like a kid on Christmas morning and freed the wrinkled single dollar bills from the envelope.

For those of you living under a rock and wondering what the hell I’m talking about, let me explain.  Nielsen is the private company that is universally known for researching and compiling TV ratings.  The process is pretty simple.  They mail out diaries to random people and ask them to record what shows and movies they watch over the course of a week.  Some of the diaries are mailed back and they compile all of the information and determine what’s popular and what’s not.  They then sell that information to advertisers who use it to better target their ads to the proper demographics.  Shows with low viewership, don’t attract many advertisers, and usually end up getting cancelled.

What I had received in the mail a month ago was a simple survey asking me if I wanted to do a week long viewing log/diary.  Included in that initial survey was $2 in cash to encourage me that it was worth my time.  Well, I spent all of 2 minutes filling out the survey online and went about my day.

Yesterday, I saw a thick Nielsen envelope in the mail.  To my delight, there was $30 inside along with the extended survey forms.  We could have tossed the forms in the trash and kept the $30, but a part of me cannot resist supporting (and crushing) certain tv shows.  So if you are a fan of reality tv, you can blame me when your favorite shows get the ax.

Posted in: Misc. Tagged: beer money, ratings, tv

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