Indie Spotlight: Irish Up-And-Comers Live Through The ‘Long Dark Twenties’

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As the web series medium spreads across the globe, far-flung creators are applying its common tropes to their own lives. With that thought in mind, take a peek at Long Dark Twenties, a “young people trying to keep themselves together”-type of comedy that comes to us from Ireland.

In Long Dark Twenties, Luke Benson and Kelly Shatter portray Ben and Lily, a pair of protagonists who struggling and often failing to control their lives. Individual episodes reveal their candid conversations with one another, in which they do all they can to help each other sort out their respective issues. In the first episode, for example, they must beat a hangover stemming from an all-nighter in order to keep up appearances at work.

Hangovers, it would seem, are something of a common theme for Long Dark Twenties, which will soon begin its second season. A successful Kickstarter campaign hints that the new episodes will feature “trial by romance, career, MURDER, and worse still, Dublin traffic.” You can check them out on YouTube beginning on May 7.

OTHER UNDER-THE-RADAR SERIES TO CHECK OUT

• The Hopper Family Vlog. This channel is gaining some traction by satirizing family vlogs.
• It’s Great, Right?. If parodies of how-to videos are more your speed, well, here you go.
• Instapoets. Young creators in DC deliver quiet comedy.

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