Rec me things

[dhampyresa]

So.

For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, I want to watch movies/shows/etc that are completely new to me. As a result, I am willing to try pretty much anything anyone is willing to tell me to watch.

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[the_rck]

Since I'm not quite sure what you're looking for, what you have access to, and what you've already seen, these are extremely scattershot. I'm going to make a few separate comments.

These should be easy to find on YouTube:

LARP: the Series - Two seasons of short episodes following a LARP group, in and out of character. This is of the go out into the woods in costume and act out combat sort of LARP with a very small group of players doing an ongoing fantasy campaign.

DC Super Hero Girls - The shorts for this series are on YouTube. The movies went to DVD and may or may not be available online. Basically, this is the various DC female characters as students at a high school for supers. Some male heroes also appear as students, but the focus is on the female characters. I've liked everything I've watched for this.

Evillious Chronicles - I looked into this for last year's Yuletide to see if I might offer it (and didn't finish it in time). It's very, very long and consists of a few hundred short videos of varying lengths (two minutes to fifteen, I think). You need to find it subtitled because the audio (songs) is in Japanese. If I'm recalling correctly, there's a website that gives the best order to watch the videos in. They're interconnected and sometimes have the same events from different points of view (which completely alter what the viewer thought was going on) but cover centuries or even millennia in a fantasy world. Quite a bit is grim and creepy but in a way I found fascinating. This is not one to watch while depressed or while pressed for time. I found one collection that had almost all of the videos, but I still had to search out a few by their specific titles.

Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party - This one may make you want to throw things, depending on how much you know about the authors (all either English or from the US) being portrayed because all of the authors are the worst/most ridiculous versions of who people today who don't know much about them think they were. The idea is that Poe is hosting a murder mystery dinner and has invited a number of other authors (not all actually from his period). Then someone starts murdering guests. I couldn't stop watching even though some of the characterization made me angry when I let myself remember it was connected to real authors who I know something about. I don't think any of the episodes are longer than 15 minutes.

Razor Sharp - I also watched this for last Yuletide (and offered it). It's less than half an hour long, including credits, and is vaguely science fiction-ish. It focuses on a woman who steals industrial secrets and finds out that what she's currently trying to steal isn't what she was told it was.

[dhampyresa]

I deliberately left the request as open as possible to draw in as varied recs as possible. I should have specified, sorry.

These all look great. I've already seen "Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party" and it's great. Thanks for the recs.