When it comes to mining Vancouver clichés for web series gold, Girls vs. The City isn’t alone. Here are six other web series that successfully explore some aspect of what it means to live, work, play, and fail in the GVRD:
A makeshift family of roommates wrestles with all manner of heartache and identity issues in a house just off of Commercial Drive.
A sexual health nurse at a West End clinic with a fear of casual sex consequences catapults into the world of online dating after a year of sexual abstinence.
Writer and star Sonja Bennett (Preggoland) shines as the new program manager of a fictional – and dysfunctional – Vancouver community centre.
A lesbian and a straight dude sleep together after getting drunk at a Vancouver web series event, and wind up pregnant. Based on a true story; winner of the 2018 Leo Award for Best Web Series.
Bob Kronbauer – the founder of Vancouver Is Awesome – casts his signature awesome-cam on quirky characters and curiosities from our province’s past.
Welcome to Surrey
Suneet graduates from a Toronto medical school only to be sent to work in the one place she’s been trying to avoid: her hometown of Surrey, BC.
Sabrina Furminger writes about Vancouver's film and television industry for the Vancouver Courier. She is also editor-in-chief of YVR Screen Scene.
