Nov
04
“Riese”: a web series about a woman, a wolf, and a walk in the woods
ByThis weekend saw the debut of a new bi-monthly web series, Riese, about “A reluctant heroine [who] travels with her wolf through a collapsing world, outrunning a dangerous religious cult and piecing together her past.”
The heroine is played by Christine Chatelain (Sanctuary), sporting a Natty Gan-meets-Lena Headey as Sarah Connor look.
Here’s the first episode:
The pacing is a little slow — six minutes of running through the woods might work on a bigger screen, but gets boring quickly on a computer monitor (especially if you have buffering issues) — and not much happens in the first episode, but it’s nice to see a female-powered web series (and one with fairly high production values) getting so much promotion.
Uhm holy smokes first off, the anti spam word was WILLOW. totally love that.
and second, don’t know if it was the slow pacing and forest running, but I didn’t like that first ep.
A few months ago Zoe Bell starred in the webseries Angel of Death. It had excellent production value and was a seriously intense 10 episode run.
Check it out at crackle.com