Indie Spotlight: ‘Everything’s OK’ Delivers A Bizarre, DIY Future

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.

Much of the indie web series scene is centered around New York City, but I guarantee you’ve never seen the Big Apple depicted as it is in Everything’s OK. Ace Salisbury‘s new web series is a wild vision of the future, in which live-action and animation collide to form an energetic post-apocalyptic collage.

A press release describes Everything’s OK as a “post-apocalyptic cardboard punk adventure,” and that description does a good job of approximating how far-out Salisbury’s vision is. In the first episode alone, we’re treated to lo-fi police robots, static backgrounds dressed in bleak shades of green and brown, a wasteland setting torn apart by fracking, and the disembodied, reanimated head of Orson Welles.

“Everything’s OK” Episode One: “Autopilot” from Ace Salisbury Productions on Vimeo.

While Everything’s OK may seem like an odd concept, the story at its heart — a woman’s search for her father — is a simple one. Viewers are given plenty of time to take in the unique visuals presented to them, and the narrative doesn’t detract from that spectacle. Head over to the Everything’s OK website if you’d like to see for yourself, and check back their every other week for new episodes (there will be eight in total).

OTHER UNDER-THE-RADAR SERIES TO CHECK OUT

• Dadvice. New fathers discuss what they are learning as they enter a new phase of their lives.
• This Is Taylor. This show about a woman who uncovers her sexuality can be found on the gaywomenchannel feed on Snapchat.
• The Leslie. A woman’s bumbling friends help her navigate her own love life.

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