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Animal Studio; Short of the Week

This is a seven-episode, live-action series, which runs for a total of about twelve minutes. It inspired a TV series of the same name, and I didn't see the webseries until after a couple episodes of the TV series. I'm not actually sure if the episodes of the webseries were ever shown individually, because when I found it online, it was in one single video, like a short film. And still, the whole thing is shorter than a single episode of the TV show. (Incidentally, I gather that the title refers to a Yoga position, though I don't know anything about that. Nor does it seem to have any actual connection to the premise of the show.)

Anyway, it's about a dog named Martin, who talks to the camera as if he's the subject of a documentary. (And there are CGI effects to make it look like he's actually talking.) But of course he's not really in a documentary, and while we the viewers hear him speaking English, it's fairly obvious that none of the humans in the series hear him talking. His owner is a woman named Nan, and we virtually never hear her say anything. But through what we see and the things Martin says about his life, it's always perfectly easy to understand what's going on, including what Nan is thinking or feeling. And... it's just interesting to get a dog's perspective on what being a dog is like. It can be a bit amusing, but it can also be serious. Ultimately, I think there are things that Martin has a fairly human understanding of that I don't think real dogs have. (I mean, some things can obviously be understood by real dogs... but maybe not everything.) And I dunno what else to tell you, without spoiling anything. Oh, except there are a couple of times Martin mentions someone named Cheryl, and from the context it sounds like she's his psychiatrist, or at least like he thinks she is. But if that's what he thinks, I'm pretty sure he's mistaken. (Although both the serious and amusing aspects of his perspective on life do make it make sense that he'd be in therapy.) Anyway, I think the webseries has a pretty good final episode, I mean, it's a good place to end it (and possibly a good reason to think of the whole series as... something that would make sense as a documentary). But it has a more serious tone than the rest of the series. And that's really all I can tell you.