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Intcatinfo A Masterpiece!

Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

MaximumMadness From creator and co-star Felicia Day comes "The Guild", a web-series that premiered in 2007, and recently wrapped up it's sixth (and presumably final) season online. Centered on the real-life lives of a group of online RPG gamers, the series boasts wonderful and quirky writing, a great sense of humor and characters and situations that are very easy to relate to.Day stars as Cyd (better known as "Codex", her in-game character), a female gamer, and a member of a "Guild" in a popular online MMO-RPG. Together with other guild-members including the awkward and lovestruck "Zaboo" (Sandeep Parikh), socially detached and bizarrely over-logic guild-leader "Vork" (Jeff Lewis), lewd High School student "Bladezz" (Vincent Caso), lazy stay-at-home mom and party girl "Clara" (Robin Thorsen), and the cold (and sometimes manipulative) social-butterfly "Tinkerballa" (Amy Okuda), Codex not only contends with in-game quests, but her own real-life issues, including her social anxieties, romance and her growing real-world friendship with the other members of the guild.The cast is absolutely wonderful. Day (whose character is the main focus of the series) is a joy to watch, being able to elicit laughs and real emotion from viewers. The remaining guild-members are also fantastic in their own ways. Perikh is hilarious and is able to balance his character's cartoonishness and emotion well. Lewis is fascinating and highly amusing with the bizarre character of Vork, being possibly my favorite member of the cast. Thorsen is a ton of fun as the party-girl who is forced to contend with being a mother... something she often fails at. Amy Okuda runs a really interesting (and very well played) roll that is actually quite dangerous- her character is a lot of fun, but also highly selfish, putting her in danger of easily being hate-able for the audience. But Okuda does a good job keeping the character at such a place that you still root for her and want her to see the error of her ways.The format of the series is also very interesting. Each episode alternates between a more traditional route of storytelling, combined with web-cam footage of the actors playing the game, giving gaming scenes an intimate, also documentary-like style. In a very bold move, despite the game being a big focus for the characters in the series, we never really see too much of the game. We simply see the characters playing it and how it alters and affects their lives. Which is actually far more powerful than if we actually saw the game being played. It's a really smart move on the part of the creative team, which I applaud.The writing and direction is an absolute joy, and are aided by other delightful aspects of production. This includes some clever, subtle set- design, and an amusing opening credits sequence that sets the mood quite well. And finally, there's plenty of great guest-stars in the various seasons, including a memorable role by Wil Wheaton, whom add a lot to the series."The Guild" is absolutely fantastic. I'd go so far as to say it's better than most television series, despite its small budget and non- tradition style and focus. I absolutely would recommend this series not only to nerds and gamers, but to anyone who is looking for a great, fun (and even relateable) laugh."The Guild" gets a great 9 out of 10 from me.

Andrew Moran As a Buffy fan, and after seeing the adorable Felicia Day in the hilarious Joss Whedon Internet show, "Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" (she also had a recurring role in the last series of BtVS and also appeared in Dollhouse), I then found out that she had created her own web show, so I knew I had to check it out - and when I finally did, I was not disappointed.Day has created a wonderful set of socially inept characters whose real world lives revolve around their their un-named (MMORPG) Internet game, which they play as a group, but separate from each other from their own homes.Prior to one group member ("Zaboo") tracking down Day's character ("Codex"), in order to express his undying love for her ( although he only knew her on-line character and her avatar), the group had not met each other in person, so as actual, social interaction increases, so does the scope for comedy.An admitted on-line gamer, Day's witty and well-observed set of otherwise eclectic characters and their gaming foibles, whilst also being joyfully stereotyped, are a great bundle of laughs - but that is also largely down to the superbly cast set of actors playing each of the main characters.Such is the skill and ease with which they have assumed their roles, I found myself checking to see what they had all been in before, feeling sure that I had seen them in something, but instead found - to my very great surprise - that it simply was not so. For me, that is unheard of, and I feel slightly chagrined, but it is also a testament to the cast.Jeff Lewis ("Vork") and Sandeep Parikh ("Zaboo") in particular, may well find that further fame awaits them, but as Day herself has stated, she had to turn to writing in order to find the sort of regular acting role that suited her, blaming and also thanking the very people who had constantly rejected her for parts. I don't think I've ever used the phrase before in my life, but, "You go, girl!"Day successfully and skilfully avoids making the script and stories too reliant on gaming or Internet jargon, and as part of the extended "Whedon family", there are distinct traces of the Whedon style and humour in there too, all of which helps also to give the show a broader appeal than you might imagine, if you were, say, a Hollywood TV Exec wanting to hear a pitch for a new TV show, and you were told about this before it had been made on the shoestring budget that it started with.As I said up top, I went from Buffy to Dr Horrible to this, and will undoubtedly now check out "The Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy Hour", so I have no doubt at all that Joss Whedon is looking on to all this very proudly - and rightly so.

ffiisshh I watched the first three seasons of "The Guild" and I haven't laughed so hard in years. My wife doesn't get it; My friends do't get it, but I do, and that's all that counts. Although I am an older dude (in my 40's and I am an X-Box gamer) and I don't do any on-line role playing, I was heavily into Dungeons and Dragons as a teen, so I can totally appreciate and relate to all of the characters' personality types. I can especially relate to Vork as "the Dungeon Master" type, taking his little world way too seriously to the point of being oblivious to life's nuances. Bladezz - I knew a kid who looked and sounded just like him, in the 80's, ...Didn't we all? Clara, the mom who neglects her family in favor of the Guild (hey, that's me!). Tink, the ultimate opportunist....And Codex....ahhh....Codex, trying to keep it all together. Felicia Day is absolutely a comic genius...I wonder if she realizes this yet. Anyway, watch The Guild, you'll laugh yourself silly.

CSMITH424 I stumbled on this while playing around on ITunes. I have to say this is by far the most entertaining and amusing pod-cast I have ever seen. The combination of "The Office" and RPG's is the most original concept I have ever seen. It is painfully obvious that someone on the writing staff is a Gamer. The only possible complaint I could have is that the episodes are too short. I would actually watch a 30 minute episode of this on television. Of course I am a geek, which drew me into this in the first place. I watched the first five episodes immediately, and as soon as I found the official website, I watched episode 6. I cannot wait for the newer episodes to release. I think I can say I'm truly a Guild junkie. Plus, Codex is HOT!!!