Short-form storytelling can be as powerful as bigger, more elaborate productions
Here are three gems, ideal for summer viewing, that you can find online or on streaming services. These series resonate abundantly for all their brevity. is a beauty of a little series, an exquisite study of a small slice of life, loneliness and social awkwardness. It’s funny, too. Written by and starring Rebekah Miskin, it’s about Jessie who is an insomniac.
Homemade, directed by Ladj Ly, is enormously ambitious – an anthology of shorts about lockdown life during the pandemic.The other standouts, which give a visceral sense of COVID-19’s impact, are a drone journey made by Ladj Ly – with a child sending a camera over a working-class area of Paris, showing glimpses of ordinary life – and Ana Lily Amirpour’s segment, narrated by Cate Blanchett, which offers a stunning view of a deserted Los Angeles where a young woman rides a bike.
Jackie Richardson plays Rosie in Hey Lady!, a CBC Gem original comedy series about a wiry old gal who refuses to let herself be put out to pasture.She shoplifts constantly, yells insults at children, drinks copiously and, with her equally wisecracking, chain-smoking sidekick , wreaks havoc daily in every possible location. It’s one of the most extraordinary comedy creations on Canadian TV.
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