Web Series – Brooklyn is in Love

Before mini-series, vlogs and short films, the closet thing to a three-minute movie resembled a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl. If you were pressed for time, you'd have to choose between that new Daria episode or attending your night lecture. Sometimes you didn't even have 30 minutes to spare to watch an episode, but you had to watch it because it was so annoying to tape onto videocassette. Let's face it — the world before YouTube was downright inconvenient.

That's why a mini-series is so great. It differs from starting a show that you know will swallow most of your free time (and your working time, too.) It's not like catching up to the current season of 30 Rock when you are five seasons behind, only to then have to tune in every week at the same time and interrupt your studying. It's such an imposition. Beginning a mini-series on a weekend basically ensures that you will end the series on the same day. And what's even more awesome? With the invention of YouTube came the birth of the web series. Could life get any easier?

People are very hesitant about the quality of videos others put out, but make no mistake — if you spend time rifling through all the crap on YouTube, you are bound to find some gold. Selecting a web series may be tricky, as there are many shows floating around in cyberspace. How can you possibly determine which one to watch? Perhaps you need to be pointed in a direction by a certain television idiot savant.

Brooklyn is in Lovetells the story of three twenty-somethings living in the Seattle of the East Coast: Brooklyn. The protagonist is emotionally paralyzed by the murder of her fiancé and feels she can never love again. Conversely, her best friend's attitude on love mirrors Brooklyn's general population — tragically cool and too young to care as she bobs and weaves through a blur of one-night-stands with What's-His-Names because she doesn't need a man in her life.

The show is youthful and fresh, particularly because the cast and crew are all in their early to mid-twenties. The director, Danielle Earle, looks to be no more than 25, but she's already the CEO and founder of the very production company that brings this series to life. In 2009, she started On The Scene with PL Entertainment, where she personally interviewed many bands in New York and the United Kingdom. Each crewmember has an equally impressive résumé, especially because many of them are still in college.

Watch this show. There's no downside! The premise is unique, the actors are surely up-and-coming, each episode is less than 15 minutes long, and they've only created three videos in the series thus far! The season begins Oct. 23, so you've got loads of time to catch up. See a new episode every Sunday at www.plentertainment.com. You'll never shy away from a web series again.