Monday, April 18, 2011
Film And Here's EastWillyB, a Web Series About Latino Williamsburg
Posted by Mark Asch on Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:31 AM
Readers of this blog may be especially curious to see what this new show thinks of them: as it turns out, the show is pretty hammering in its satiric pushback against gentrification
(shorthanded in the marketing as "hipsters," inevitably, but represented in the series by a bar co-owner who wants to make the place more "emo,"—with Confederate flag wall-hangings for decoration—and a douchebag jogger who doesn't sort his recycling, much to the consternation of Cold Weather's Raul Castillo). Also illuminating, but perhaps more natural-seeming, is the rapidfire Spanglish banter (including Boricua College jokes) and slapstick gags about INS. There's new episodes to come on Wednesdays for the next six weeks, along with short documentary snippets about "The Real Bushwick."
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