Quarterlife

By Media Maven As a young man in my twenties, a fan of NBC, and an avid blogger, I felt it only appropriate that I check out NBC’s newest drama, quarterlife.  The series, created by Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz  (the brains behind My So-Called Life and thirtysomething), is the first of its kind for a number of reasons, and is the epitome of the modern day series.  The show originally began as 30 8-minute webisodes, produced independently by Zwick and Herskovitz.  Needing only a few hours to fill their post-strike schedule, NBC bought the entire 240 minute series as a finished product and will air it in 6 40-min installments over the next 6 weeks.  Two big firsts here: quarterlife is the first ever series based on original webisodes, and its also the first t...   [read the full post]