EastSiders
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| Original title | EastSiders |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2012-2019 |
| length | 10-30 minutes |
| Episodes | 27 in 4 seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Drama , comedy |
| idea | Kit Williamson |
| production | Kit Williamson |
| First broadcast | December 14, 2012 on YouTube |
| occupation | |
EastSiders is an American web series by Kit Williamson about the lives of two gay men in California . It was first broadcast on YouTube in December 2012 . She has been on Netflix since the end of 2017 .
Since launch, the series has received multiple Daytime Emmy Awards nominations and won two Indie Series Awards.
The fourth and final season was first released on December 1, 2019 on Netflix.
action
The series is set in Silver Lake, Los Angeles and accompanies the photographer Cal and his partner Thom. In the first season, Cal finds out that Thom, with whom he's been in a relationship for four years, is cheating on him with Jeremy. Nevertheless, Cal decides not to end the relationship, in the process Cal also cheats with Jeremy and firmly intends to tell Thom about it - which he does not do. At the same time, Kathy, Cal's best friend, and boyfriend Ian are celebrating their six-month anniversary. This makes the relationship the longest that Kathy has ever had and at the same time the shortest that Ian has had so far.
occupation
Leading roles
| role | actor | Role description | Appear |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thom | Van Hansis | Thom is an aspiring writer and has been Cal's partner for four years. He cheats on Cal with Jermey, but subsequently regrets it and ends the affair in the first episode | Season 1–4 |
| Cal | Kit Williamson | Cal is an aspiring photographer and has been Thom's partner for four years. He works in an art gallery that is mostly poorly attended. After learning of Thom's affair, he decides not to end the relationship. | Season 1–4 |
| Kathy | Constance Wu | Kathy is Cal's best friend and Cal and Thom's neighbor. She and Cal went to college together and she was suspicious of Thom for a long time. Her own relationships were short-lived, the six-month relationship with Ian being her longest to date. | Episodes 1x01–1x09, 2x03, 2x04, 3x01, 3x04 |
| Jeremy | Matthew McKelligon | With Jeremy, first Thom, and later Cal, cheat each other. At first he doesn't know for sure if he wants to have a relationship with either of them and later is upset that they both turn him down. After Thom and Cal split up, he begins a relationship with Thom, but then realizes that this is not what he wants. | Season 1–4 |
| Ian | John Halbach | Ian has been Kathy's boyfriend for six months. She describes him as a hipster and a nice boy next door. | Season 1–4 |
| Hillary | Brianna Brown | Hillary is Cal's emotionally unstable sister. | Season 2-4 |
Supporting roles
| role | actor | Role description | Appear |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bri | Brea Grant | Bri is the lesbian sister of Jeremy, she was with her partner Vi for eight years and the two have children together. | 1x05, 2x02, 2x04, 2x06–2x08, 2x11–2x12, 4x01, 4x03–4x06 |
| Paul | Sean Maher | Paul is the gay owner of the art gallery Cal works in, he has a sexual interest in Cal but has been married for ten years. | 1x04–1x06, 2x05–2x06 |
| Valerie | Traci Lords | Valerie is the mother of Cal and lives in Phoenix. | 1x04, 2x09, 3x03, 3x06, 4x03–4x06 |
| Quincy | Stephen Guarino | Quincy is gay and in a relationship with David. He's a friend of Cal and Thom and a professional party promoter. | 1x02, 1x05–1x06, 2x04–2x12, 3x01, 4x01–4x02, 4x04–4x06 |
| David | David Blue | David is gay and Quincy's boyfriend. | 1x06, 2x04, 2x06, 2x09–2x10 |
| Douglas / Gomorrah Ray | Willam Belli | Douglas is a drag queen by the stage name Gomorrah Ray, Quincy has sexual interest in him. | 2x03-2x12, 3x01, 4x01–4x02, 4x04–4x06 |
| Clifford | Jake Choi | Clifford is Thom's editor and makes Thom question his relationship. | 4x01, 4x03, 4x05-4x06 |
publication
The first two episodes were released on YouTube in December 2012. The broadcasting rights for the remaining episodes of the first season were secured by the US television station Logo , which published them as a stream on its homepage. Wolfe Video secured the rights for further digital and DVD marketing. For the German market the first season when it was OmU of GMfilms on August 1, 2014 published in length feature film on DVD.
EastSiders premiered the second season on September 15, 2015 on the video-on-demand portal Vimeo .
The entire series was later sold to Netflix , so the first release of the third and fourth seasons was on Netflix, Netflix translated the series into about 30 languages and makes all four seasons available for streaming as OVs.
Episode list
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
title | First broadcast worldwide | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Episode 1 | December 14, 2012 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 2 | 2 | Episode 2 | December 21, 2012 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 3 | 3 | Episode 3 | April 22, 2013 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 4th | 4th | Episode 4 | April 30, 2013 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 5 | 5 | Episode 5 | May 7, 2013 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 6th | 6th | Episode 6 | May 14, 2013 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 7th | 7th | Episode 7 | 21st May 2013 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 8th | 8th | Episode 8 | May 28, 2013 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 9 | 9 | Episode 9 | June 24, 2013 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
season 2
There are different counting methods for the second season, in the Netflix release two episodes are combined into one.
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
title | First broadcast worldwide | Director | script | Title and numbering of the summarized episodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 1 | Weirder Than Normal, Jump | 15th September 2015 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson | 2x01: Weirder Than Normal, 2x02: Jump |
| 11 | 2 | Sodom, (And Gommorah) | 15th September 2015 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson | 2x03: Sodom, 2x04: And Gommorah |
| 12 | 3 | Sex Therapy | 15th September 2015 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson | 2x05: Afternoon Delight, 2x06: Sex Therapy |
| 13 | 4th | Thick like a lotion | 5th October 2015 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson | 2x07: Close Your Eyes, 2x08: Thick Like a Lotion |
| 14th | 5 | open bar | 5th October 2015 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson | 2x09: Open Bar, 2x10: The Game |
| 15th | 6th | Evolving | 5th October 2015 | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson | 2x11: Evolving: Part I, 2x12: Evolving: Part II |
season 3
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
title | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 1 | Priscilla | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 17th | 2 | Goodbye to All That Shit | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 18th | 3 | Thelma and Louise | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 19th | 4th | Cats | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 20th | 5 | Our Own Private Idaho | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 21st | 6th | East of Eden | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| On November 28, 2017, all episodes of the series were released simultaneously. | ||||
Season 4
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
title | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22nd | 1 | A relationship like that | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 23 | 2 | Going viral | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 24 | 3 | Black East | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 25th | 4th | Pillow talk | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 26th | 5 | Both sides now | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| 27 | 6th | Always upwards | Kit Williamson | Kit Williamson |
| On December 1, 2019, all episodes of the series were released simultaneously. | ||||
production
The first two episodes, published on YouTube, were privately funded by producer Williamson. The remaining episodes of the first season about crowdfunding . The goal of 15,000 US dollars was reached after just four days; when the crowdfunding campaign was closed one month after the start, 25,785 dollars were reached. The second season was also funded through a crowdfunding campaign, the target of 125,000 dollars was exceeded by about 25,000 dollars when the campaign closed.
The series was filmed in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
Receptions
The French daily Le Monde is particularly enthusiastic about the first season and describes the cast as "absolutely formidable" (absolutely perfect). After the publication of the first two episodes, the US online culture magazine The Daily Dot described the series as "charming, sharply written, and well-acted", with Guarino and Wu receiving particular praise. The German team magazine describes the fourth season as fabulous and states that the appearances of Traci Lords and Bryan Batt as Cal's parents alone are a reason to watch the season.
Awards and nominations (selection)
- 2013: Nomination in the Best Short Format category for the 2013 Satellite Awards .
- 2014: Nomination in six categories for the Indie Series Awards, winner in the category Best Ensemble - Drama .
- 2016: Nomination in ten categories for the Indie Series Awards, winner in the category Best Ensemble - Drama .
- 2018: Nomination in five categories, including best digital drama series for the Daytime Creative Art Emmy Awards.
- 2020: Nominations in seven categories, including best script in a digital drama series for the Daytime Emmy Awards .
Web links
- EastSiders in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kevin Clarke: "EastSiders" or the liberating side of queer partnerships. In: Team magazine. December 4, 2019, accessed May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Kevin Clarke: "EastSiders" or the liberating side of queer partnerships. In: Team magazine. December 4, 2019, accessed May 29, 2020 .
- ^ Neil Landau: TV Writing On Demand: Creating Great Content in the Digital Era . Taylor & Francis, 2018, ISBN 978-1-351-78420-7 ( google.de [accessed May 29, 2020]).
- ↑ Jeremy Kay: Wolfe Releasing picks up EastSiders. January 15, 2014, accessed May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ "EastSiders": The Adventures of Cal and Thom in LA In: queer.de. August 1, 2014, accessed May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Eastsiders Series to Premiere on Vimeo On Demand September 15, Vimeo , August 25, 2015, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Itay Hod: "EastSiders" Finds Global Audience Tackling Controversy. Spectrum News 1, December 17, 2019, accessed on May 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Olivia Armstrong: Afternoon Delight: Kit Williamson Talks 'EastSiders', Kickstarter, And The Importance Of Creating Your Own Work. Decider, September 17, 2015, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Amanda Lewis: #LAWebAwards: Eastsiders Wins Best Web Series Drama in LA LA Weekly, August 28, 2013, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ^ "Lovesick" and "Eastsiders": on badine bien avec l'amour . In: Le Monde.fr . August 3, 2016 ( lemonde.fr [accessed May 29, 2020]).
- ↑ Jordan Valinsky: "Eastsiders": Gay dark comedy finds audience on YouTube . In: The Daily Dot . January 14, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2015.
- ↑ Jesse Steinbach: EastSiders Web Series Lands A Satellite Award nomination. In: out.com. December 4, 2013, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ 5th Annual Indie Series Awards Winners. In: Indie Series Awards. Retrieved May 30, 2020 (English).
- Jump up ↑ Jamey Giddens: Colleen Zenk, Van Hansis, Alicia Minshew and More Snag Indie Series Award Nominations. Daytime Confidential, February 7, 2014, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Nominations Announced For 7th Annual ISAs. Indie Series Awards, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ^ Roger Newcomb: Lilly Melgar, Melissa Archer Among Winners at 7th Annual Indie Series Awards. April 7, 2016, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ^ The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announces Nominations for the 45th annual Daytime Emmy® Awards. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Nominees announced for the 47TH annual Daytime Emmy® Awards. (PDF) The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, accessed May 30, 2020 .