Hipsters, Kissing in the Rain, and One Month Later
The Weekly Binge: 3 Web Series To Watch This Week
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!
Hipsterhood
Hipsterhood is a modern approach to romantic comedy, exploring what it takes to push two hipsters together when they’re so in their heads and so caught up in how they present themselves to the outside world. It turns out that the self-aware can be awful at conversation. You see the romance unfold from both sides, with each character mentally narrating their experience with painful awkwardness. And it’s a cute way to present the neuroses we all have about music and fashion and romance. The show ostensibly takes place in Silver Lake, California but could just as well be in Brooklyn or any other place where young people preen.
Kissing in the Rain
There’s something incredibly romantic about kissing in the rain. Hollywood tells us it’s so. Bollywood certainly agrees — they put it in every movie. Maybe because it seems so emotionally indulgent to insist that your passions are more important than the threat of pneumonia. Maybe because it’s easy to believe you’re in a sexy Victorian period piece when you surround yourself with London weather (and a hint of Jane Austen makes everyone twirly). Maybe because everyone looks better with waterlogged hair and glistening skin (probably not the last one). Kissing in the Rain cleverly plays with the trope, with each episode beginning with two actors filming a rain-soaked love scene, before breaking to take us behind the scenes as the actors navigate what happens when the rain stops and they try to know each other in real life.
One Month Later
The worst thing about this show is that you have to wait a month for the next episode. It tracks a potential relationship in real-time, with each episode jumping ahead by 30 days. It’s like Boyhood but takes place over twelve months instead of twelve years and makes you want to be in an adorable relationship, not call your mom and apologize for the burden of child-rearing. It’s affable as hell, with great dialogue and banter. And any show that acknowledges in the first couple of minutes that Nora Ephron was the voice of a generation has their head on straight.
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