The Guild is a comedy webisodic created by Felicia Day. An actor/writer/producer/gamer, Felicia plays Codex, a healer in Virtual Reality and one of a sextet of adult online gamers who make up The Guild.
The Guild is precisely why I get such a big kick out of the Internet. Surfing its online entertainment offers me glimpses at alternative lifestyles to which I otherwise might not ordinarily get hipped. Like that whole shady world of “online gaming.”
That scene was never my thing. I didn’t get the lingo, I didn’t care about their daily victories and tribulations. And I definitely didn’t understand the dress code–until I surfed across the The Guild.
Day, her Guild cohorts, have their own special challenges dealing with Reality. It all comes to a head in Season One, Webisode Four when Codex, unable to turn to the real life friends she doesn’t have, cajoles her other Guild members into meeting face to face…in the real world…for the first time.
Day is pleasantly Tina Fey-ish in both her acting and her writing. In fact, it’s the spirit her writing imbues into each character that works at shattering many of the stereotypes about gamers that I brought to the streaming. What’s nice about The Guild is that it’s surprisingly PG-13. Also the droll, understated humor punctuated by uncomfortable pregnant pauses keep Season One’s ten webisodes crackling.
In just its first season, The Guild has already managed to snag three big online awards–the 2007 YouTube Video Awards, the 2007 Yahoo Video Award for Best Web Series, and most recently the 2008 Greenlight Awards for Best Digital TV series.
On the .comDish! Sitesurfin’ scale, we rate The Guild “T” for teens. Surf on over to WatchTheGuild.com, and see what you’re missing.
Thanks so much for the writeup! Word of mouth is our only publicity, so we do appreciate it!
And thanks for the Tina Fey analogy, she’s my idol
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