LARPs: The Series, on YouTube
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Season One
This first aired on its own YouTube channel in 2014, but I never saw it until it moved to Geek & Sundry in 2015. It's about a group of LARPers, (people who play Live-Action Role-Playing games). Throughout the series, we get to see a mix of scenes within their fantasy adventure LARP as well as the players' interactions with each other in real life. The GM (Game Master) is a guy named Evan, who plays various roles within the LARP. Evan's best friend and roommate is Arthur, who plays a rogue named Noctus. Arthur's brother is Will, who plays a ranger named Biff. Evan's sister, Brittany, plays an elf named Corillia; Biff and Corillia start a romantic relationship in-game, and eventually Will and Britt start dating in real life. And in episode 1 (which is actually the second episode), a woman named Shane joins the group, playing a paladin named Astra. Also there's a kid named Sam, who I guess is Evan and Brittany's younger brother. He wants to join the LARP, but Evan doesn't let him do so until the season finale.

Season Two
At the end of season one, Noctus was killed in the game, which devastated Arthur, who was deeply invested in the character. This season, he plays as a new character, a necromancer named Nel'Zull. However, he intentionally gets that character killed off so he can start over as another new character. Actually, he does that with a few characters, before getting stuck as a bard named Porrik, whom he couldn't allow to be killed because a spell cast on him would result in his whole party dying if he died. So he struggles throughout season two with being a character he hates (while missing Noctus). Also, Will and Britt broke up at the end of season one, but their characters, Biff and Corillia, are still dating in the game (because an elf's love is forever). And in season two, Will gets a job at a coffee shop. His boss is a very nihilistic guy named Lance. Also this season, we sometimes see Evan talking with his friend Mia, the GM of a steampunk LARP of her own. (It was advice from Mia that inspired Evan's idea to stop Arthur from killing off any more of his characters.) And a friend of Shane's named Kat joins Evan's LARP, as a foxling cleric named Ellowyn.

There are various dramatic developments out of game, this season. One of them involves the fact that the whole reason Shane joined the LARP was to write an article about LARPing for the magazine she works for. It turned out to be very popular, so it became a series of articles. Kat is aware of this, but agrees not to mention it to any of their fellow LARPers. Of course, near the end of the season, the others do find out about it, and the revelation hits Evan particularly hard. However, Shane had really come to love the game and like her fellow players, so she will be really hurt if Evan can't forgive her. Meanwhile, Kat develops romantic feelings for Evan. Also, halfway through the season, Evan's group take part in a session of Mia's LARP, in which Arthur's actions lead to the death of a character played by a LARPer named Claudia. This leads to a major problem for Evan's entire group in the season finale, but I don't want to spoil what happens. Anyway... there are lots of developments I'm not even mentioning, but I will say that whatever conflicts there were between the main characters (out of game) do finally get resolved. So it has a relatively happy ending, in spite of a huge development regarding the LARP itself.

Well, I didn't manage to get as interested in the show or the characters as I'd hoped to, in season one, but I found it interesting enough to keep watching. Certainly I thought the writing and acting were good. And I enjoyed season two a lot more than I did season one. I'm also pretty sure if I rewatched the series from the beginning, I'd like season one more than I did the first time. (There are definitely little things that may seem insignificant at first, but pay off big, later on. I know this because I've occasionally watched bits of earlier episodes and things happen that I'd completely forgotten about, but which are now obviously some skillful foreshadowing.) Besides which, I really want to write up episode recaps for the wiki, at some point....