麻豆传媒映画doesn鈥檛 usually get the chance to play herself on television; she鈥檚 more likely to stand in for Seattle, New York, or made-for-The-CW locales on the small screen than she is to appear as herself, bike lanes and idiosyncrasies and all.
The web series sphere is where 麻豆传媒映画truly gets the chance to shine as the gloriously complicated character she is. She鈥檚 one of the title characters in the comedy web series Girls vs. The City, the second season of which hit the 鈥檔et last week.
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The 鈥済irls鈥� of Girls vs. The City are similarly complicated characters named Brynn and Brianna, played by series co-creators Brynn Peebles and Brianna Wiens.
Like their exaggerated on-screen counterparts, Peebles and Wiens are longtime BFFs engaged in a love-hate relationship with this city (although it鈥檚 mostly love at this point).
The fictional Brynn and Brianna are BFFs striving to make connections in a city where everything costs too much and everyone has their guard up, says Peebles in a recent phone interview with the Courier and Wiens.
鈥淲e lovingly make fun of Vancouver,鈥� says Peebles.
Comedy, she goes on to say, is a survival strategy, 鈥渂ecause there鈥檚 so much that鈥檚 absurd about living in Vancouver, and people are so in their bubbles.鈥�
The web series is a spin-off of Girl on Girl Humor, a YouTube channel they started six years ago and populated with blistering improv comedy videos.听听听
Season one of Girls vs. The City followed the women as they rebuilt their lives after one B lost her relationship and the other lost her home (which we admit doesn鈥檛 sound too funny, but B & B spin their characters鈥� pain into comedy gold).
Peebles describes season two as 鈥渦s realizing we鈥檙e out of place and trying to find where we fit in, and realizing how much more together everyone else has their lives, and how we鈥檙e these almost-30-something jobless, friendless, husbandless, clueless, not-quite Millennials.鈥�
Making new friends is the fictional duo鈥檚 raison d'锚tre. In season two, they take their search for friends to a craft brewery (where douche-bros toss back pints while identifying notes of straw wicker and mushroom soup), to a running club (after observing that everyone in 麻豆传媒映画works out because they鈥檙e broke and in desperate need of mood-altering endorphins), to a tabletop role-playing game, and into the indie art scene (which, we discover, has a surprisingly dark underbelly).
鈥淚 think our job as comedians is to bring everybody out of it for a second and go, 鈥楬ey, what we鈥檙e all doing is pretty stupid and funny,鈥欌�� chuckles Wiens.
Wiens and Peebles recently attended the tony Banff World Media Festival, where they pitched Girls vs. The City to TV industry stakeholders.
麻豆传媒映画is an unending source of inspiration, says Wiens. 鈥淭he beautiful thing about this show is there鈥檚 always going to be material in the city,鈥� she says. 鈥溌槎勾接郴璱s full of funny people, and there鈥檚 not that much comedy here in terms of comedy television series, so we want all the funny people on our show.鈥�
Stream both seasons of Girls vs. The City .
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Sabrina Furminger writes regularly about Vancouver's film and television industry for the Courier. She is also the editor-in-chief of
