Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along-Blog!
This is something I have twitter to thank for - I stumbled on it from some random tweet, watched out of sheer morbid curiosity (it starts out like a vlog… Neil Patrick Harris as Dr. Horrible reading his email).
It was once the singing kicked in that I loved it. It’s like “The Tick” from the villain’s point of view - just trying to be recognized as a villain, and have a personal life. I can’t say too much, but if this is where the future of generated online series goes - I’m loving it.
Part tragedy, part musical - it comes together in just under 40 minutes. Great performances, great music - and the idea behind the series was that:
The idea was to create something small and inexpensive, yet professionally done, in a way that would circumvent the issues that were being protested during the strike.
They succeeded, and I can’t wait for part two (or the DVD to come out so I can actually purchase it :D

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