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Armed with a coffee cup painted with cherries, fresh-faced Josh Dove sends out a heart-felt vlog to his mom who is in the hospital due to a freak moped accident that left her with a broken hip. He describes his excitement at having met a new friend, a foreign exchange student who mysteriously appears in his room ("it's how foreign people say hello"). Oh, and he wishes his dad wasn't dead...but at least he's found his old video camera. And within that first thirty-second vlog, you are off and running on the quirky comedy series that is MacAwesome. Created by Graham Bowlin (American Heart) and Waffle Feast Media's Cameron Strittmatter, the series comes out of North Carolina where the two, along with partners Daniel John Lerch and director Andy Mitchell met while at Uncsa film school. The series thrives on its randomness...a visit to the shows Facebook page...

We were messing around on YouTube recently, cause that's what we do, and stumbled across a curt little promo video of a flabby fellow running through a field lugging an old TV. Turns out this 'TVs are heavy' lesson was a promo for an upcoming web series, though it might as well be our new Tubefilter mantra. Unabashed. Stalwart. Practical. Promos are key to snatching attention in an ever-crowded sea of budding web series, and the guys behind MacAwesome only needed to 36 seconds to grab ours. Co-creator Graham Bowlin plays Shannon Abercrombie, the twentysomething bonehead 80's TV jogger in the spot. As it turns out, the series isn't just another clan of ironically-dressed acting class buddies riffing each other. It's actually one of the few web series centered around an underage kid. hat becomes a little more obvious in the second promo (below), a longer form intro to homeschooled protagonist Josh Dove.