Comments on: Karina’s Capsule: quarterlife

By: Roommate Comedy and Online Video: A Brief Overview

Roommate Comedy and Online Video: A Brief Overview — Thu, 21 May 2009 19:31:29 +0000

[...] shows to explore the topic in one way or another — My Roommate the Cylon, Bumps in the Night, quarterlife and the quarterlife parody 2/8 life, the MySpace series Roommates… All of these shows are [...]

By: Karina’s Capsule: 2/8 Life « NewTeeVee

Karina’s Capsule: 2/8 Life « NewTeeVee — Thu, 15 May 2008 08:34:01 +0000

[...] show which seems to make the whole enterprise worthwhile. 2/8 Life, a spoof of the much-discussed quarterlife, is so smart and funny that it could easily render the target of its satire [...]

By: Sell-Off! Roommates vs. quarterlife « NewTeeVee

Sell-Off! Roommates vs. quarterlife « NewTeeVee — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:00:45 +0000

[...] the high-minded (and high-priced) quarterlife, about 20-nothings in existential crises (check out Karina’s review), and the blatantly low-brow Roommates, about slender women lounging in bikinis. While the two take [...]

By: MySpace Keeps On Truckin’ « GigaOM

MySpace Keeps On Truckin’ « GigaOM — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:31:29 +0000

[...] with the likes of Skype and AOL, and expanding into new avenues such as OpenSocial and, more recently, “quarterlife”. As a result, its traffic –despite stiff competition from babe-of-the-moment, Facebook [...]

By: Movingweb - observing moving content on the Internet! » Blog Archiv » Quarterlife Webseries online

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:22:11 +0000

[...] really awesome, it’s setting new standards for web fiction formats. I`m agreeing with Karina Longworth from NewTeevee that the basic idea of one of the main characters talking about his flatmates’ [...]

By: Dan Zig

Dan Zig — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:05:31 +0000

Well, two episodes in, I’m paradoxically annoyed and bored. I wanted to believe that big-budgets and seasoned vets could deliver something thus far unprecedented to the realm of serialized Internet content. But as it happens, despite their enormous advantages, it seems like they’ve made something as shallow, familiar and inconsequential as much of the homemade fare already clogging the net. This feels like a pilot that would’ve been rejected by the CW network with a note that reads, “Too derivative- even for us.” I’ll keep watching, for a while at least, in hopes that a moment will come when the series will surprise me. It’s only 16 minutes of the pilot- so I’ll reserve total judgment until at least the full episode is out there…

By: Web Video Rumors Milling; Place Your Bets « NewTeeVee

Web Video Rumors Milling; Place Your Bets « NewTeeVee — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:01:16 +0000

[...] We checked with MySpace, which has bought first-run Internet rights to the show (our review here), and a spokesperson replied: “quarterlife” was conceived as an Internet series and is debuting [...]