Millennial job interview vimeo9/26/2023 ![]() It feels more realistic, the idea that you might lose touch with a friend, or that all your friends don’t hang out all the time at the same time. It’s a really cool opportunity to do that. I like returning to characters, and my favorite movies are big movies, like There Will Be Blood or Boogie Nights, that are about people over the course of their whole lives, so I love the idea of television that you can, in real time, weave in and out of people’s lives. ![]() I’ve been talking a lot lately about this artsy-fartsy term I use: “longitudinal storytelling.” A longitudinal science study over years and years so it’s the same thing with narrative. ![]() I resisted a little at first, but I got over it. We talked for a while about doing a second season of The Outs or a second season of Whatever This Is. and that was kind of my preference, and they were like, “We would rather do The Outs.” The more I thought about it, it made sense to return to The Outs. They did several episodes of High Maintenance, High Maintenance got picked up by HBO, and Vimeo wanted to keep doing original narrative work, so they reached out to me and said we should work on something. And not that there should be, or that there even can be because so many people are creating stuff, but I like what Vimeo is doing because they’re picking artists that they like and they’re supporting their work.ĭid Vimeo approach you about picking up The Outs or had you reached out? And if you have a friend who has a friend who has a friend in Portland who made a great gay web series, there’s no reason I should have heard of that. This is why I ask everyone that I talk to, Is there any queer web stuff that I should be aware of? Because it’s everywhere. The tricky part is, there’s nowhere to discover anything. Vimeo can produce that or Amazon can produce that or Netflix can produce that, and in a funny way those things are at an advantage, rather than network television that you have to watch on your TV. You’re watching it all the same way, and that’s incredibly intimate. Or you’re watching it on your Roku or on your Apple TV. The only variable that exists is the quality, because now more than ever, people are ingesting this work - I hate the word “content,” so I never use it - on laptops. Now that you’ve made one season of The Outs in this DIY way and a second season as a Vimeo Original, what do you see as the value or the place of web series in the television landscape? Over lunch in Brooklyn, I talked to Goldman about season two, the problem with gay sex on HBO, and why we need fewer coming-out narratives. “It’s the same team, and it still feels pretty DIY - just better-funded DIY.” “From our perspective it still feels very scrappy,” Goldman told me, explaining that he and Gillespie edited the season together, much as they did the first, to save money on editors. Goldman conceived, directed, and co-wrote the series with Winters, his real-life friend and roommate, and much of the show’s feel is due to their smart, sharp writing and the distinct aesthetic of the show’s director of photography, Jay Gillespie. ![]() The first season (with seven episodes in less than three hours altogether, a very manageable binge) was funded on Kickstarter, and, after a three-year hiatus, the series was given a second season, which premiered Wednesday as a Vimeo Original. Adam Goldman’s 2012–2013 web series The Outsfollows Mitchell (Adam Goldman), his best friend Oona (Sasha Winters), his ex-boyfriend Jack (Hunter Canning), and Jack’s new boyfriend Paul (Tommy Heleringer) through breakups and upsets that rearrange their relationships with one another.
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