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8 CommentsMySpaceTV is launching their first show, Quarterlife, in November. If you click on the link there is a trailer you can watch. The show is "about a group of twentysomethings coming of age in the digital generation." When I first read about it I laughed - no way I'd watch that. Being over 20 and not wanting to even remember my 20s, why would I want to watch about people in their 20s making the same crappy mistakes I made when I was 20?
Then I watched the trailer.
I was surprised about the quality of the trailer. It looks like a TV production. I don't know what preconceived idea I had in my mind but I was impressed.
Not impressed enough to watch it though. Why? Because I live it everyday. The very scenarios they project are the things I talk about all the time. Interesting thought, MySpace is making Quarterlife a social network too:
quarterlife.com is a social networking site for creative people. Whatever your interest - photography, writing, music, filmmaking, dance, design - quarterlife.com will help you go to the next level. Connect with like-minded people, gather information about schools, grants, and internships. It's a place to explore the issues in your life, where changing the world is as real as the friends you meet.
MySpace could end up being the MTV killer. MySpace is popular but it is also hated. Would you watch the show? Ooh..let's make this a bit more interesting...
Would you not watch the show because it was on MySpace?
Ozone42
Written Sep. 13, 2007 / Report /
I watched the trailer. I thought it was retarded.
It would have to be a really killer, new, and interesting show to get me to watch it on myspace. It's not because I hate myspace intrinsically, but rather everytime I go there I'm assaulted by so many ads, it's very slow, and there are mind numbing amounts of spammers and the like. Even spin off sites hold the stigma.
This seems like your average teen or 20 something drama, throw in a bit about the net, and call it new. If I want tired cliche soap operas I can get them on tv or rent them. Good writing and characters can go a long way to making it better, but from the trailer I really haven't seen that yet.
I think you're right that it can be an MTV killer. Then again MTV is a vapid wasteland of ADD, superficiality, and exploitation... so that's really not setting the bar too high.
peroty
Written Sep. 13, 2007 / Report /
MTV already committed suicide a couple years back. It's on life support and no one has the guts to pull the plug yet. But it's dying, no reason to kill it.
Myspace is like an open AOL for this generation. They're trying to do everything and they do it badly. But people use it because it's there and "everyone" is on there already. And it's free.
Scrivs
Written Sep. 13, 2007 / Report /
Actually I just watched the trailer and it didn't seem anything like that at all to me. A teen drama would be cheerleaders screwing each other over and writing how they had sex with their friends boyfriend on someone else's site. This one seems more about the problem we have of opening our eyes to our own reality and how we hate it even more when someone else is doing the opening for us. Can't say I will check it out because I won't remember it, but it seems like they are taking this seriously. Of course they are owned by Fox...
estarla
Written Sep. 13, 2007 / Report /
Lol @ peroty RE: MTV committing suicide.
It's basically MySpace cannibalizing on their already-established fame and user base. Meh.
No, I would definitely not watch it--there's just too much other material on the web. I'll save "TV" watching for my TiVo.
It's also interesting seeing huge media companies take over web companies. A have a couple friends at MySpace (Fox) and for instance E!online (Comcast) and I hear a lot about meetings with the higher-ups and their "brilliant" (0.5 or 1.0) ideas coming into the web development departments...not good. The higher ups need to be rethinking their thinking on that much of the time.
Ozone42
Written Sep. 13, 2007 / Report /
That sounds pretty good... but I didn't get that at all from the trailer.
I vote you go and write the show for them with that motif. Then I'd give it a chance.
Scrivs
Written Sep. 13, 2007 / Report /
If I'm going to write for any show it's going to be my own so I keep the change.
elysa
Written Sep. 13, 2007 / Report /
I will be watching it for two reasons.
#1 I am 25 so I am on a mission of collecting all the quarterlife crisis reliefs I can get.
#2 Scott Michael Foster is one of my good friend's younger brother. He is on Greek right now. He is the guy with the longish hair on the trailer.
inadvertentgardener
Written Nov. 5, 2007 / Report /
I am going to be watching it, too, even though I'm already technically through my quarterlife...and I'm interested to see how the interactiveness works -- has anyone else checked out the web site for the show? It includes "creative networking" -- kind of like MySpace, but with better portfolio tools. I went ahead and set up a profile but don't expect to add much more to it -- the T&C for the site includes that they can take what you post and use it, royalty-free, in any way they want in perpetuity.
Yeah, it does look like a total soap opera drama. But I'm curious to see how it goes, and, since I don't have a TV at home, it's one way for me to get my television-like fix without using Netflix to do it. So...we'll see how it goes. Plus, I loved the other stuff the creative team put together -- I was a "My So-Called Life" junkie, and I adored "thirtysomething."