Anyone but me

Good afternoon people, bilarious here.
I've decided to talk to you about something I only just discovered a few weeks back. You see, I usually don't watch web series, because I assume that they have a very low budget and that with that little money, nothing good can be done. But once again, I was wrong. Of course web series have it harder: It's harder to be noticed online amongst thousands of other things, rather than on TV where you have your fixed time table, and it's really much harder to produce something with good quality and only a fracture of normal TV series' budget. So the only thing they have left to hold on to, is the quality of their story.



So here is the web series I recommend for you: Anyone but me. I haven't quite figured out what the title means and I admit that the storyline is rather slow, but I like it. The story is about Vivian McMillan (Rachael Hip-Flores), who's in a relationship with Aster (Nicole Pacent), but is forced to move away from NY City because of her dad. The interesting twist begins when she moves to a place where her usually relatively open gayness, becomes more of a closet case. There are other parallel storylines about race, love, friendship - you name it. There are two seasons out, in total something like 14 episodes of 5-15 minutes each. So it's something you can watch when you're working on your computer and you need a small break from everything.
Enjoy,
Bilarious

The L word

Let me start by the series that literally changed my life. The L word.
The series started in 2004 and brought us six seasons full off everything and anything.
It's difficult to actually summarize what happens. But I can safely say that the series shows us the lives and views of a group of very close friends, containing a range of very different characters and people.

There's Shane McCutcheon (Kate Moening), the most unobtainble but certainly fascinating character, who goes through different kinds of relationships. There's the couple "Tibette" -Tina Kennard (Laurel Holloman) and Bette Porter (Jennifer Beals)- going through periods as a happy couple, as almost enemies and even as lovers. We see them in their conception of a child, in the adoption of another child, in a relationship with a man and a deaf woman (Marlee Matlin as Jodi Lerner).
There's the famous tennis player Dana Fairbanks (Erin Daniels), who shows us the process of coming out, but gets breast cancer and eventually dies.
There's the funny and kind Alice Pieszecki (Leisha Hailey), who brings us the "Chart" and who's involved with different lifestyles and people, including the military black woman Tasha Williams (Rose Rollins) and her friend Papi Torres (Janina Gavankar).
There's the writer Jenny Schecter (Mia Kirschner), who nobody truly understands what she goes through, but who's life is plot-wise very important for the series end.
There's Kit Porter (Pam Grier), a straight but gay-community-loving woman who gives us the location of the series.
There's Helena Peabody (Rachel Shelley), who brings us into casinos, jails, bankruptcies and many more adventures.
There's Moira Sweeney (Daniela Sea), who turns to Max Sweeney, who then gets pregnat as a gay trans man.



You see people, the L word gives us insight to anything and everything. I personally loved it - it started presumably with a low budget because the quality in the first season was rather poor, but the latest seasons include amazing music and great sets and costumes. Each episode brings us 50 minutes of pure quality entertainment and connects the entire community with "OurChart", the chart connecting all relationships and affairs between the members of the community.

The actresses and actors do amazing jobs, some of them are actually gay, others only pretend, and Ilene Chaiken (the producer), is actually thinking about giving out a movie in conclusion to the series.
I highly recommend it. I truly do.
For all informations, there are great Youtube providers as well as the homepage "Showtime".

Bilarious

Introduction

Most people start their blogs with an introduction and tell you who they are. Well, I'm not most people and I don't like to do things just because they need to be done. So I won't tell you a lot about me. In fact, I'll only tell you one thing about me:
I'm bisexual.

Consider yourself lucky that I've told you that, because coming out for me was a very long (and still lasting) progress, so that I spent years in the most nauseating closet you could possibly imagine. You know how you think you can talk about these things with other people, but then you really can't? That's pretty much how I felt for a very long time. And maybe centuries ago people just suffered silently, but in our times, that just doesn't fly. When you have a problem without any apparent solution, the only way out is the internet. Yes, the internet. It gives you viruses, asks you for credit card numbers, shows you pictures you don't want to see, but most importantly it gives you information about anything. And when I finally realized that what I thought was me just being weird was actually the gay half of me that had been opressed for years coming out, and I didn't know who to turn to, I turned to the internet. And this is where you come in.

I'm writing for all the people who need somewhere to turn to, who need to see things that don't happen in their world but they wish they did, who wish o see worlds they want to be parts of. Because that's what you do when you're not sure what your life is supposed to look like, you look at other's life and choose your path. That person, in a similar situation as you, was me. And to look at other people's lives, I started watching LGBT movies and series from all over the world and with time understood myself and the world better. By now, I have a quite large collection of series and movies and I'm here to tell you which ones are worth watching, which ones influence your life and from which ones you can learn the most. I know the pain and confusion you're going through, believe me, I really do. But this helps.
If you're part of the already out and proud LGBT community, I'm not only happy for you, I envy you! So leave me comments on movies and series you watch and let me know what moves and influences you, and I will make sure to watch it, rate it and leave good sources and opinions about it for those who haven't seen it.

This is it for now.
I'm bilarious and this blog is about what influences and entertains our community.