Hitmen Are like Actors, Anime Blackouts, and Zombies Taking Over Hollywood
The Weekly Binge: 3 Web Series To Watch This Week
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The Weekly Binge is a handful of recommendations based on what the Stareable Team has been bingeing on this week. Click through to watch and let us know what you think by leaving your own reviews on the site!
Hollywood Hitmen
Hollywood Hitmen is ostensibly a buddy comedy about two hitmen looking to climb the ranks of their industry, but really it takes you inside Hollywood thanks to the clear and striking parallels between acting and professionally murdering people. They want their agent to put them up for bigger jobs (and return their calls), they practice lines and give notes as they burst through doors, complain about having to move to LA and start over, and resent how foreigners with attractive accents are taking all the good jobs. The two hitmen have great repartee and are just the right amount of buffoon — it’s charming to watch them bumble their way through their careers.
Super Hero Clock
An anime superhero origin story, Super Hero Clock opens on the nascent hero waking up and wondering why he’s so tired. If only every blackout were so prophetic and productive (in our experience, sometimes it’s the former but it’s rarely the latter. Sigh. College.). It turns out the protagonist is a struggling comic book artist who has a Jekyll-like alter-ego that fights crime at night. When he accidentally finds himself in the middle of a robbery that triggers a Hulk-style rage-blackout, he starts to piece things together through flashbacks. The show does that thing anime often does and mixes technology with magic to create a recognizable but unpredictable world. Considering how much Stan Lee loves self-promotion, it’s rather surprising that he never created one about a comic book artist who digs deep and gets the girl.
Acting Dead
In Acting Dead, zombie movies and television shows have taken over Hollywood. So what is a struggling actor to do but undergo a medical procedure to become an actual zombie and get work? The set-up really starts to work after he’s zombified, as the show lets loose on Hollywood and the ridiculousness of the industry. The show feel incredibly reminiscent of Arrested Development: the protagonist sounds strikingly like Ron Howard, the narrator is a distinct personality who frequently side-eyes the plot, the characters can be strikingly blase and often talk past each other, and there’s a distinct love of silliness and double-entendre names. Anything that feels that similar to Arrested is worth a watch.
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