We receive a ton of tips every day from independent creators, unaffiliated with any major motion picture studios, television networks, new media studios, or other well-funded online video entities. The Indie Spotlight is where we’ll write about and shout out to a select few of them and bring you up to speed on the great (and sometimes not-so-great) attention-grabbing series you probably haven’t heard about until now. Read previous installments here.
This edition of Indie Spotlight is sponsored by Tongal.
Many indie web series focus on the irritating minutiae of daily life. They hit on frustrating jobs, awkward romances, obnoxious roomates, etc. O, The Ennui turns those minor problems up to eleven. It brings an overblown, existential lens to mundane annoyances, thus creating a smart deadpan comedy.
Two episodes of O, The Ennui have been released thus far on Funny or Die. In the first, two roommates use a bowl of suspect-looking guacamole as a basis to discuss the ephemeral nature of life. In the second
, a haunting paranormal experience turns into a discussion about Netflix passwords. These combinations succeed thanks to the deadpan deliveries of actors Mark Millner and Sutton Dewey, who also serve as the series’ writers via their production company, Grey Hour Media.At least one more episode is planned, but O, The Ennui has boundless potential. Any and all small inconveniences have the potential to become their own episodes. The world is putty in Gray Hour‘s hands; they only need to treat it with moody lighting, mournful indie music, and a faux-serious delivery in order to turn it into comedy gold.
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