Quarterlife

The latest webisodic of the new season, actually not online until early November, is titled Quarterlife and is covered more fully by NewTeeVee here. MySpace has exclusive first run rights, and it seems to be a very self-referential concept targeted at the young inhabitants of social networking sites in particular and the blogosphere in general.

Oddly enough this was my first encounter with the phenomenon of the quarter-life crisis, the latest pop-psych label to commercialize the angst of the twentysomethings. I was aware, of course, of the mid-life crisis... waited for it to hit me... still waiting, although now it would probably be better termed the three-quarter-life crisis.

With webisodics proliferating, I wonder when we'll find the dubbed foreign language versions being released internationally. In territories I regard as my second home, France and Germany, the dubbing of imported films and series is totally acceptable to the audience and executed at an amazingly high level of quality. Many say the dubbed German version of the TV series Alf was funnier than the US original, the writers having taken wicked liberties with many of the jokes (inspired doubtless by Woody Allen's 1966 What's Up Tiger Lily?)

Any thoughts on this? Comment... or call me!