Drama

The online world of the film 2012 is depressingly out-of-step with the actual film.

ABC offers audiences a chance to catch up before the Fall 2008 season of drama starts.

A serious look at life after Rapture.

In willful defiance of the tropes laid out both by contemporary genres and pretty much every other video on YouTube, the creators of Afterworld have dared to make a web series seemingly devoid of irony.

An assassin struggles with missed targets, sleeping with her boss, and getting stabbed in the head with a six-inch knife.

Young lesbians navigate the oft murky waters of long distance relationships, high school, well-meaning but misguided adults, and life in a post-9-11 world. All at once.

The third web series from the BSG franchise, inserted between Season 4.0 and 4.5.

The long-delayed 60Frames thriller finally arrives on TheWB.

The USA Networks spy series crosses over onto the web with helpful tips for daily life.

A Friday the 13th clone, told like The Blair Witch Project, but on the Internet.

An intriguing puzzle disguised as a web series.

Michael Madsen plays a mobster who slips into a coma, threatening to unravel corruption in his city’s mayoralty.

Writer/director Ti West’s slightly emo take on dating and vampires.

A compelling tale of the temping life.

A 12-part drama about a young woman whose inner demons become terrifyingly real.

A modern noir about desperation, drugs and gambling debts.

The Taiwanese soap opera is a phenomenon not just in its home country, but on YouTube.

Horror stars unite for this scare-packed FearNET miniseries.

The ABC series worked overtime on ancillary content to draw in web audiences.

A supernatural crime drama in which both the cops and the villains have something to hide.  (Hint:  Humans 1.0 are so last season….)

Rosario Dawson stars in the sci-fi thriller from Electric Farm and a million advertisers.

The action figure line is the basis for this high-action animated series.

A British spin on the detective-versus-serial killer genre.

A content rich, interactive “social show” designed as a companion to the CBS television event Harper’s Island.

Video, text, and images combine to create an addictive branching narrative.

A philosophical look at the Wild West.

The NBC show has a long history of webseries content.

A fan-made prequel to web video gamechanger Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog.

An apartment complex-ful of West Hollywood gay men deal with issues like HIV prevention and broken hearts.

In near-future Chicago, Nate Palmer’s inventor father commits suicide, and a secret organization recruits Nate to search for his last experiment. But Nate soon discovers that he himself may be the real experiment.

A spin-off of Lonelygirl15, this web series created in conjunction with social networking site Bebo is another drama that involves twentysomethings pulled into a world of secret organizations and intrigue.

Dior’s foray into web series production is slightly more than a hard sell for their handbag line.

The creator of CSI spins a tale of serial killers across multiple platforms.

The lonelygirl15 follow-up sequel is a bold new step for the franchise — and a big shift from its roots.

An intriguing retro mystery set at a Baltimore college in the 1980s.

Controversial and medium-defining, the interactive narrative phenomenon that began as a YouTube hoax gained more notoriety for being a fictional series than it did for its unique storytelling format.

An average day for a group of teens at the mall is more than average in execution.

This pitch-black thriller about an unstable self-help guru doesn’t have it all… so, are the gratuitous servings of sex, drugs and violence enough?

A fantasy thriller direct from the streets of Hong Kong.

Online romance blossoms between an institutionalized girl and a recovering alcoholic in a halfway house. But love hurts – especially when a suicide pact is involved.

Found, public domain footage set to voice-over.

Ostensibly about a married LA woman who finds similarly-minded, fun-loving friends at an otherwise stultifying book club, the show’s really about the car manufacturer Saturn.

A true-life tale of the CIA’s use of prostitutes to test LSD on the hooker-frequenting masses.

An award-winning fauxumentary about a country girl in the big city of Melbourne, Australia.

A high school drama told in 90-second bits from April to June 2007, with compelling writing and directing by creative producers Big Fantastic (the creators of Sam Has 7 Friends).

The WB summer thriller lacks in thrills.

Pushing Twilight carries the tagline, “Therapy without limits,” but the “treatment” depicted within looks more like a psychological S&M game show than any kind of sanctioned psychiatry.

quarterlife mostly uses videoblogging as a catalyst for violating the old show-don’t-tell rule through constant, literal narration.

From one of the early writers of Lonelygirl15 comes another story of a girl, a web cam and a government conspiracy.

A independently-produced steampunk fantasy.

The seminal web series that delivered on its promise: “Samantha Breslow had seven friends. On December 15, 2006, one of them killed her.”

A colab between Chuck Rosin (former producer for the original Beverly Hills 90210) and his daughter, Showbizzle’s a hybrid fictional vid series/UGC social network about “making it” as a struggling creative in Hollywood.

Intrigue lurks at the Phi Pi Kappa sorority house, and lonelygirl15’s Jessica Rose is at the heart of it.

Ten episodes of awkward conversation about the search for love, brought to you by Strike.TV.

Twisted patient takes psychiatrist down with him in this slick motion comic series.

The new content hub launches with an impressive lineup of talent.

Two very different web series find new life in the genre.

A guy gets kidnapped and is replaced by an off-kilter double. Mystery and creepiness abound in this Twilight Zone-esque mystery.

A prequel to the upcoming blockbuster utilized the tie-in game’s graphics engine for hardcore action.

A young woman investigates the mysterious death of her friend.

Jason Priestley directs this fluffy summer teen drama.

A four-part web series setting up the upcoming CW drama.

The new Showtime series starring Toni Collette launched first online.

Vampires lurk and mysteries reign in this MTV series.

A drama from former lonelygirl15 writer Mary Feuer, set in the diverse community of Venice, CA.

An unscripted, heavily improvised look at the intertwined sex lives of a group of Chicago 20-somethings.