This was the best TV show ever you guys need to make a new one

Each season is so dramatically different from the other, its as if you're watching 3 separate shows. The first season: It's immediately clear this show was created by youtubers. It's funny, irreverent, yet lacking the capability to deal with real substance. The second season: It contains all the humor and quirk that made the first season enjoyable to watch, yet there are issues delicately woven in. Relationships, parents, and friendship are explored, without the show feeling contrived or fake. Personally, this is my favorite season. The third season: I never would have thought in a million years that a show titled Video Game High School could ever carry so much emotional weight. It's character-driven story line is poignantly realistic, yet I feel remorse over what the show use to be. I watched the first and second seasons because they were fun. They were funny, but not How-I- Met-Your-Mother funny, with one liners and punchlines. It was the kind of fun everyone has experienced, the casual yet incomparable fun with friends that makes one forget life exists outside of that moment. However this feeling is absent in the third season. The fate of the characters doesn't seem so concrete and certain. Maybe things don't turn out alright. Maybe they never will. The characters fall prey to real- world issues. And while these issues are explored fantastically, I still find myself missing when I could sit down, turn on the TV, and know I was in for a barrel of laughs.

First let's start with the great stuff, which there is plenty of.The cinematographers clearly knew what they were doing. Shots are excellently composed, lighting and camera work are top notch, particularly in context of the budget, and the entire work (thus far) has been visually compelling. The digital elements are intuitive and well done (intuitive by being instantly recognizable and relatably - for example, when a player was shot in the game, there would be a bunch of digital pixels that flew off them. It makes a lot of sense and looks cool).The soundtrack is fluid and on-key, building tensions and emotions and complimenting the arc of the story as it progresses. It's nothing particularly amazing, but it's great for the budget. The supporting actors also do a quite good job, although, like all amateur actors, there are some flaws.It's important to give credit to these backstage guys who made a really clean, professional looking film. Because honestly, I was legitimately impressed. But that's where the good impressions end, and the bad begin.I gave this work such a low review because, frankly, the acting and writing is AWFUL. Literally offensive. A fair, even good, portion of the jokes hit pretty well, but the characters are atrocious. BrianD, the 'protagonist', is arguably the bigger douche between him and his cliché, one-dimensional, nonsensical antagonist rival, The Law. Brian never listens to people, is generally psychopathically inconsiderate of other people, and is incredibly standoffish with anybody that disagrees with him. So is The Law, but hes SUPPOSED to be that way, he's the bad guy. Whats the point of making the protagonist as mean as the antagonist? I hated them both. At least the Law was a good actor, but BrianD gave a wooden, comically unconvincing performance that felt like a 'very first stab at acting ever'kind of acting.Characters don't evolve, they just do random things that don't make sense. Everybody is a huge dick to Brian, then they're suddenly not, and then they are again, and there's no reason why. Ever. Characters change without events occurring, and thats baffling. The writing makes it so that the character change is the impetus for the event, not the other way around, which is how it should be. Brian and his on-again off- again romance with Matrix, the lead female, is baffling, forced, and awkward - a set of traits that describe most of the movie.Also, a piece of work that bills itself as a 'video game movie' has an embarrassingly poor understanding of the medium. It's like the producers have never actually watched any eSports. Of course, adaptations are never perfect, but its so far off the mark that, as a gamer, I felt cheated. I wasn't expecting them to translate CSGO or CoD perfectly, but a respawn + CTF + dramatic 'evil villain speech' cliché inside a COMPETITIVE GAME? It just felt alienating.That's a good word to sum up the review. Alienating. I felt uncomfortable, confused, and apathetic to the characters' plight. The writing was bad, the actors were bad, and this work is bad. 3/10, with 2/10 points added for visuals.

Lovingly directed by a gang of friends, shot on a low budget and intended for distribution as a web-series, "Video Game High School" is a somewhat funny comedy.The plot? In an alternate reality, students attend schools which specialise in designing and playing video games. One such student, Brian D (Josh Blaylock), finds himself bullied by The Law (Brian Firenzi), the highest ranked gamer in the school. Johanna Braddy co-stars as Jenny Matrix, the foxy leader of a first-person shooter unit.With its DIY aesthetic and Youtube friendly plot, "Video Game High" was one of the first serials released on the web to be amalgamated as a feature and receive mainstream distribution. It is not great art, but the camaraderie of its cast and crew shines trough, and its nice to see films succeeding outside of normal production and distribution channels. Bizarrely, the film targets raunchy online gamers, yet elicits giggles through child-friendly, intentionally cheesy humour. No tea-bagging and rape jokes here.7.9/10 – Worth one viewing.