The Pushing Twilight web series for IFC.com is like a modern Aesop's Fables.
Strangers are brought together by the fact that they all have unresolved issues: couples on the verge of divorce, an unsuccessful business, no confidence, too much confidence, and so on.
Each individual or couple is given a secret task to perform, and then return to the group to share their experience. Inevitably, each task teaches a valuable lesson that brings about a life-changing character arc.
I say this sarcastically, but the series does have an impressive story for the medium.
Each episode contains a solid structure of its own, but the overall structure of the entire series is weak. Most of the plot is driven by a bland, Raconteur-type character, pulling the strings with no real character work to explain him. There is a somewhat satisfying final revelation, but it leaves several strings untied in order to deliver only a pretty good surprise.
Strangers are brought together by the fact that they all have unresolved issues: couples on the verge of divorce, an unsuccessful business, no confidence, too much confidence, and so on.
Each individual or couple is given a secret task to perform, and then return to the group to share their experience. Inevitably, each task teaches a valuable lesson that brings about a life-changing character arc.
I say this sarcastically, but the series does have an impressive story for the medium.
Each episode contains a solid structure of its own, but the overall structure of the entire series is weak. Most of the plot is driven by a bland, Raconteur-type character, pulling the strings with no real character work to explain him. There is a somewhat satisfying final revelation, but it leaves several strings untied in order to deliver only a pretty good surprise.