LonsTV looked at a little something different this week with Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn, an off-kilter comedy series that debuted last October on YouTube. The show takes place in the aftermath of subdued, deadpan Malik (Alec Stephens III) and his child-like roommate Rigo's (Mike Navarro-o'Brien) ill-fated decision to sublet a room in their apartment. Okay, it's not really a room, it's more of a bare space in the corner. But that doesn't stop them from promising the sublet to not one, but two eager professional women, the fastidious and impatient Emily (Isis King) and loopy free spirit Lindsay (Lindsay Hicks). The six episodes of the show's first season find Rigo and Malik essentially hanging around the apartment while Emily and Lindsay scheme to get either their worldly possessions or their first and last month's deposit back. Though episodes are credited to writer Nick Blake, the dialogue has an improvisational feel to it,...
- 1/20/2011
- by Lon Harris
- Tubefilter.com
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