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Catch of the Week
WEB STORIES: The new season of Baby Mama’s Club (see Monday) reminded us that there is a whole internet out there full of original scripted drama and/or comedy – and it’s in delicious bite-sized morsels. Local series Dislawderly is a seven-part comedy series about the adventures of an awkward law student: tinyurl.com/
NZLDislawderly. For Wellingtonians, there’s Burbs, a series of dark comedies about the quirky corners of our capital city: tinyurl.com/NZLBurbs. In Stake Out, Thomas Sainsbury and Chris Parker are the sorriest stake-out guys in a car ever:
tinyurl.com/NZLStakeout. Finally, the Candle Wasters are still doing their Shakespeare interpretations; the tagline for their latest series, Tragicomic, is “High school sucks when you’re basically Hamlet”: tinyurl.com/NZLTragicomic.
FANTASTIC LIFE: RIP Stan Lee, the comic-book writer without whom the Marvel Cinematic Universe would not exist. He began his career in the 1930s and will forever be known as the creator of Spider-Man, the Hulk, Daredevil, Black Panther, the X-Men and the Fantastic Four, and the cocreator of the Avengers, Ant-Man, Iron Man and Thor. The New York Times has posted a 2015 interview with Lee: tinyurl.com/ NZLStan Interview.
Entertainment stream Looper has rounded up Lee’s greatest comics: tinyurl.com/NZLStanComics.
Of course, somebody has compiled all his movie cameos: tinyurl.com/NZLStanCameos.