Cat Cafes, Old Emo People, and Dirty Cartoons
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!
Purrfect Match
Cat cafes used to be oddities that were easy to dismiss as alien and bizarre. But because we haven’t built a wall to keep out all foreignness, now they’re starting to show up here. And since curiosity killed the cat, it would be nice to understand the phenomenon without actually having to venture into one of these filthy feline dens. Purrfect Match lets you follow a recently-engaged couple who goes to a cafe to adopt a cat. It mimics late night dating shows (anyone remember The 5th Wheel ?) or Say Yes to the Dress — an uncomfortably loud narrator sets the scene, the couple speed-dates prospective cats, and then they both offer their inane thoughts direct to the camera.
Emo Dad
There are certain things that are meant to be reserved for the youths. A lack of familiarity with the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air canon, thinking emojis are reasonable substitutes for words, bottomless brunch, a belief that things in life will just fall into place — the list is long. Representing emotional fragility with black eyeliner, tight black clothes and a fondness for Fall Out Boy is certainly that list of youthful indiscretions. After all, if it weren’t, wouldn’t we see the occasional emo doctor? Or an emo judge? Does anyone have an emo aunt? So in this show when the titular father separates from his wife and starts churning out overwrought poetry and not washing his hair, his son is understandably surprised and unsettled. And just when you think the father’s use of the word “poser” is getting a little overdone, the show twists and then turns back on itself, setting itself up nicely for season two.
Cyanide and Happiness Shorts
These are aggressively weird animated shorts that examines a broad spectrum of cliches, like assholes justifying being assholes before they’ve had their morning coffee, the proclivity some have for putting things up their butts, or a sociopathic doctor who believes the best treatment is wooden pirate-style prosthetics (you know, as one does). The show revels in how unsettling cartoons can be when they deal with adult topics like vulgarity, sex and violence, often making that (extended) discomfort a key part of the joke.
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