“Anyone But Me” – good answer to anything but network
December 11, 2009 by admin
Filed under Entertainment, Web, What's Featured
A few days ago, a friend sent me a link to the web series, Anyone But Me. I have to say, I am enjoying it thoroughly. It’s the second best way I can think of to spend a sub-zero night in bed with my partner. The visual of the two of us curled up to the warmth of a down comforter and the heat emission of a MacBook is my modern-day interpretation of Norman Rockwell.
Anyone But Me is the creative culmination of writer, Susan Miller (The L Word, thirtysomething), and director/writer, Tina Cesa Ward, chronicling the coming of age journey of 16-year-old newly displaced New Yorker, Vivian (Rachael Hip-Flores), and her struggles with identity, love, life, and family. Vivian is forced to leave the city and the girl she loves to follow her ill father, a 9/11 NYC firefighter, to Westchester county for better air and better care. The result of which is a transition that pressures old relationships and tests the new ones. When asked what a woman of my “maturity” gets out of a teenage drama, I can only respond that Anyone But Me is not simply a teenage telling, but an allegorical anecdote that nostalgically extracts from me a sense of what was…and of what could have been. My womanhood is merely that same teenage angst all grown up with the metamorphic battle scars to prove it.
My motive here is not to cast a critical or microscopic eye on this web series just yet. The cast is young, yet hungry. At this point, I want to objectively provide another vehicle for which the promotion of this story of young life’s expedition can hitch. I enjoyed the first season, and I encourage my readers who haven’t logged on to peruse the episodes. I look forward to your thoughts and your discussions on yet another alternative programming choice to the ad nauseum of network reality.
Season Two premieres December 15th. Catch all episodes and show extras here.
Thanks for the post.
“…I can only respond that Anyone But Me is not simply a teenage telling, but an allegorical anecdote that nostalgically extracts from me a sense of what was…and of what could have been.”
Well stated! I second this feeling; there is something special indeed about a show that embraces you with such hard-to-pin emotions, ones you may not have confronted in years. Anyone But Me does this without cheesy sentiments, but instead with careful, endearing realism (Rachel Hip-Flores bring this quality to boil, most of all).
Teen-aged or not, this series is worth so much more than a look.
thanks for that good news. I saw the first season this summer on you tube & (to be honest) did not expect a second (WHY?) The first one was really great and impressing as you described & I am glad that we all will be able to enjoy another season. thank again for the update
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