Indie Spotlight: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actor Goes Digital In ‘Supreme Tweeter’

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With the season five premiere of Game of Thrones imminent, it is appropriate for us to use this column as an update on one of the shows former stars. Harry Lloyd, who played Viserys Targaryen on the first season of HBO’s fantasy series, has offered a fictional account of his post-Thrones life with a three-part web series called Supreme Tweeter.

Supreme Tweeter begins, as many web series do, with Lloyd auditioning. In his case, he’s up for the lead role in a movie about Henry V. As the episode goes on, we watch as Lloyd struggles to become more than just that guy from Thrones who got molten gold dumped on his head. Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin and series star Maisie Williams both appear in the first episode; they each give Lloyd advice on how to break out of the rough patch in his acting career.

The series gets a lot of comedic mileage out of Lloyd’s misfortune, but Supreme Tweeter‘s central plot is incited by a stroke of good luck. After he joins Twitter, Lloyd is followed by Kim Jong-un, which brings him unexpected celebrity. It’s a fun, novel idea that allows the series to have a nice narrative rise and fall and gives Lloyd’s team the chance to implement some cute special effects.

All three episodes of Supreme Tweeter can be viewed on the series’ official channel.

OTHER UNDER-THE-RADAR SERIES TO CHECK OUT

• Hey Yun. An “angry whimsical Korean woman” makes a mockumentary about her life.
• Princess Jezibel. A spoiled Disney princess discusses her life in vlogs.
• Sez Me. The “Sez crew” uses a colorful approach to teach kids about LGBT issues.
• Almost 30. An alien and his human companions cavort around space in this sci-fi comedy. Three friends struggle with anxiety as they approach the big three-zero.

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