Web television aficionados will probably find Downsized to be something of an enigma through the first few episodes, and with good reason. As is the case with other mediums, the most successful of web series tend deal in the currency of escapism, whether they're meme-ripe comedies or eye-dazzling action/adventures. Downsized, on the other hand, has no interest in taking us away from the real world or its concerns. It's instead best described as a series of dramatic vignettes, following three sets of characters throug lean times while providing a clear message: everybody feels the recession, but they do so in their own, personal way. The characters are familiar, not because of their conformity to archetypes or because we've seen them before, but rather because they're so close to real. There's Beth (writer and director Daryn Strauss), the smart, career woman who's brusquely let go from her company; Lowell (Duncan Murdoch...
- 11/14/2009
- by Devon Grandy
- Tubefilter.com
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