Behind the Reviews – Edition #32 (Web Series)

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As well as TV shows, I’ve also reviewed three web series: The Good Place Presents: The Selection, Lucy & DiC, and Scrubs: Interns.

A web series has been described as a series of “scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic form, released on the internet.” Two out of the three web series I’ve reviewed are spin-offs of television shows.

I discovered The Good Place Presents: The Selection as I was reviewing its parent series, The Good Place. NBC released it on their website, app and YouTube channel, and is set during the parent series third season’s penultimate episode, Chidi Sees the Time-Knife.

The web series focuses on Shawn and the Bad Place demons picking human candidates for Michael, Eleanor and the Judge’s new experiment and incarnation of “the Good Place”. The web series provides an insight into the Bad Place demons, their personalities, and how they operate. The web series consisted of six episodes lasting (roughly) two minutes each.

I discovered Lucy & DiC about three years ago whilst on a YouTube watching binge. It’s an Australian-made web series about “a girl named Lucy and her talking robot, (and) an irreverent adult comedy that looks at our reliance on technology and what happens when it’s as ill-informed as we are.” Lucy & DiC started with a short film and an eight-episode web series was released shortly after. Despite the presences of robots, it was set in a modern-day Australia of sorts, with little to no futuristic aspects.

I have known about Scrubs: Interns for over a decade due to my love for Scrubs developing just after I finished high school in 2008. I knew the web series existed at the time but I never got around to watching it. As I also reviewed the two web series mentioned above, I decided to include Scrubs: Interns to my list of reviewed web series.

Scrubs: Interns focuses on four interns in their first year working at Sacred Heart Hospital, with one of them, Sunny, narrating as she is making a video diary of her experiences. The web series consists of 12 “webisodes” between two-and-a-half to five minutes each in duration.

I enjoyed reviewing The Good Place Presents: The Selection and Scrubs: Interns as their respective parent series used them as an opportunity to explore secondary and recurring characters, as well as smaller subplots and story arcs. While Lucy & DiC was a standalone web series with a unique premise that managed to make futuristic and sci-fi elements relatable on a human level.

I’m not sure when or if I’m going to review any more web series, but I will keep my eyes and ears open for more of them.

Behind the Reviews – Edition #33 will be released next week and will focus on my TV Show – Analysis pieces.

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