Don’t wake sleeping kid up!
Brayden has been my favorite character. Unproductive reminds me of a “The Office” styled comedy, but it’s in a production instead of a marketing office. Brayden reminds me of Michael Scott, but he is much stricter. His ability to put characters on a rotisserie and burn them with some hilarious puns is great. In Episode one when he texted Mia “M.I.A.” and turned it into an acronym of a reason to why she is being a failure was priceless. While the scenes are going on you can usually see Grayson, and whatever he is doing can make you laugh. Also, Alex is up there with Grayson as one of my favorite characters. All his sex puns are great. The pressure his mother in law is putting on him and his lover to have a kid is even put on a lot of my friends today, so it is relatable. My least favorite character has to be Will, for he just reminds me of such a try hard human being. In Episode 2 when Will is questioning Collin on his experience in his military, it felt so disrespectful. Even though he didn’t kill anybody, for he was a computer hacker, it just felt as if he was not comfy speaking about it. In a gathering of friends drinking, that’s usually a topic to bring up. Will kept forcing it. I would love to hang out with these people, because it is a very diverse group of friends. He is so focused on his music video and doesn’t really show any real relevance to the development of everything going on. I feel like Will doesn’t care about that class as much as every other person in there. Will helps Collin in the studio, but not with his personal issues. That is what makes this great, for almost every character puts their 5 cents in to help Collin out with Mia. For goodness sake, even Brayden helps Collin out with Mia, and he’s the biggest douche in the story. They come together because of their production and their hate towards Brayden, but they are all very different. In society today, the youth usually makes friends with similar interests and there is no diversity in among social groups anymore.
My favorite episode is Episode 5. It’s interesting to see characters who can’t go home for the holidays try and improvise. The awkwardness in the room between Collin and Mia is definitely something that has happened to me plenty of times, but as the episode progresses it gets better and better. Sleeping kid was a necessity in this episode, for he broke a lot of the ice in the room. Him sleeping made Mia and Collin laugh enough to get to know each other better. Plus, sleeping kid brought wine, and military man Collin forgot to go on an alcohol run; which made Mia feel even more awkward. She was in his apartment, which was a melting pot, drinking soda. In that same episode when sleeping kid walked in and was already asleep after giving Collin the bottle of wine. This scene meant a lot because the subtle humor plays in later on the series. Sleeping kid never talks, but when Collin is in a huge dilemma because he finds out Mia and Brayden had sex, sleeping kid is the one who puts Collin in his spot. He makes Collin see that he actually does like Mia. My favorite scene in this entire has to be in Episode 6, where Collin runs into Mia in the Brooklyn College Café. While he’s asking her why she hasn’t been to class, she’s going through her own issues because her tuition has to be paid ASAP. Mia obviously doesn’t have the money at the moment and is going through immense stress, and nothing better than Brayden showing up. Brayden is the biggest buzzkill ever, for he exposes Collin the truth that he had sex with Mia. That is such a bummer, for it was great way to get back at the person who took your position as director. You can see Collin’s heart drop, for why would anyone want to have a one night stand with a guy like Brayden?? The world may never know.
I think next season everything is going to go well, but there will be a twist. Collin might get caught for hacking the financial office to let Mia’s tuition slide, and he will be arrested. Brayden will finally feel like he needs to stop being an ominous human being and he will take the blame. The story will progress with Alex and Alexis in their privacy in their own household. Also, Alexis might be pregnant now that she can have sex in peace. Will will blow up throughout the music video industry now that his music video with the artist Professor put him on with has done well. The Professor recognizes every character in a way to make them feel good. Towards the end, he tells Juniper she’ll make a great activist. Juniper is insane.
A great way to advertise or market this series is presenting it to the Twitter or Instagram pages that help underground series gain some recognition. The anger with the “hipsters” taking over Brooklyn and all the people being pushed out their homes in Brooklyn because the raise in rent. Property value has only sky rocketed in Brooklyn not too long ago, so maybe if a representative of “Unproductive” went to the meetings where people with power discuss these issues and present to them the series. Somebody with power can have lots of money or followers, and every view matters. The audience for this series is perfect too, for it has the drama that young people love, it has the relevance to the financial issues in Brooklyn that older people like, and it has overall plot that is risky enough to get your blood pressure rising. I mean my heart was beating when Brayden started bragging to Collin that he had sex with Mia… IN FRONT OF MIA. Ultimately, he is the biggest loser in the world for that. Another marketing scheme that could work is Sleeping Kid memes. Different reasons for why you want to be asleep is big bold text on a picture of Sleeping Kid, sleeping. “Finals in Brooklyn College got me like…” or “When you forget to drink that morning coffee before lecture”. Things that are relatable to college students, for it will lead to them to click the page that has links to the series.
I related to Collin and his awkwardness so much that Unproductive overall had a quick impact on me. It may not be something that I will overall remember, but the character and the friendship that was within that group is different. It is not your typical expectation for the college experience, the party every day college experience. This series uncovered some of my flaws that hurt me every day socially. It can impact somebody else in a form that can be more cataclysmic than my own experience. Can’t wait until Season 3!
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