Quaterlife: make imaginary friends

During this Hollywood screenwriters’ strike, CBS ran an ad in the CSI: New York break for Virtual CSI in Second Life. It occurred to me that this channel––the vw one––with essentially all UCC was good to go if the network never came back up.

Coincidentally or strategically (pick your poison), Quarter Life , the Web-based series created by producers of Thirty something and My-so-called-life Premiered November 11.

The image here is a screen shot of Quaterlife characters (fictive) who have been friended by actual Myspace users. Witness ARG kookiness to a delightful degree. My only question is why didn’t they use Facebook since that’s the demographic this show hearts.

Creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick got this very right. The production value. The story. The blog p.o.v. The back-story shots. The micro episodes of eight-minutes each. Game on. (Although, I’d like to see some black people on it, or Asian, or, South Asian…something…you get my drift.) Btw, Scion branded these episodes hard. Link to detailed review