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Even after the apocalypse strikes, Los Angeles will still need Uber drivers, and a recent web series provides a look at what ride sharing will look like in the post-apocalypse. Veteran actor Willie Garson leads Towncar Willie, in which he ferries celebrity passangers across a hellish landscape to the airport.

Towncar Willie is actually a companion for a separate web series called Whole Day Down, which made it onto our radar three years ago. In that series, Garson co-stars alongside Patrick Breen as a down-on-his-luck gallery owner. An explosion at the end of the first season turns Los Angeles into rubble, and that event sets the stage for Towncar Willie, which follows Garson's day job as an Uber driver.

Towncar Willie feeatures the same brand of oddball humor as its parent series, with plenty of guest stars keeping things lively. Rob Morrow of Numb3rs outs himself as a brony, while...

Whole Day Down, created by Patrick Breen and Tai Fauci, is an original web series that much like a de Kooning or a Bhavsar, can be difficult to describe. Starring Willie Garson (White Collar) and co-creator Patrick Breen, the show follows the slightly self-referential exploits of two down and out friends on the fringes of Hollywood supported by a steady stream of odd jobs who decide to open an art gallery. While the initial concept is straightforward, the crazy, random, kinda meta nature of the series will capture your attention, even if you're not sure why it’s so engaging. “The show kept getting odder as we wrote it because our collective creative id has no super ego studio to control it,” said co-creator Patrick Breen. Having worked successfully in traditional media as an actor for several decades, Breen (The Good Wife) was able to wrangle a handful of guest...

Palisades Pool Party is a conundrum in the best sense of the word, at once pathos, hysterical, terrible and oddly wonderful, it’s not quite Glee, nor Gossip Girl, but somewhere awkwardly sandwiched between. A show about the twenty four hours surrounding a teen pool party, there is something compelling about it, like a well-orchestrated trainwreck. We are either in the deftest of hands with creators Tai Fauci and Jack Monroe, or they are getting very very lucky with a bad show. The unevenness of tone leads me to believe it’s a collision of the two. Just take Mischa, played by Danny Zaccagnino, as he gazes morose into the bathroom mirror, shirtless, fingering his hair while some very depressing ‘I might want to kill myself’ music plays in the background in episode one (song is, Overreacting by Brad Sucks – real name – and isn’t a bad tune in and...