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In the age of peak TV, it can be overwhelming to even contemplate indulging in any more media content. On the other hand, with episodes clocking in at an average of eight minutes, a web series is a far less ominous commitment than anything else on your binge watching list. In a post “High Maintenance” and “Insecure” world, more and more creators are using the web to deliver inventive entertainment, and many filmmakers are using the medium to push beyond conventional narrative structures.

In the Gotham Award-nominated web series “The F Word,” filmmaker Nicole Opper lovingly documented her parenthood journey with her wife Kristan, transforming the complicated and often painful foster-to-adopt process into a creative and playful docu-series. A sensitive story sprinkled with plenty of joy, the couple’s humor and intimacy makes for gripping viewing. The series came out in 2017, so it wasn’t eligible for this list, but...

A new web series brings its own meaning to the phrase "it's complicated." The T, created by and starring Bea Cordelia and Daniel Kyri, is an elegantly-assembled piece of work that introduces viewers to a pair of protagonists who are looking to make sense of both their respective identities and their relationships with one another.

In the first episode of The T, we meet best friends Jo (Cordelia) and Carter (Kyri), who are a trans woman and a black man, respectively. Before Jo's transition, the two of them used to date, and the lingering feelings they may have for each other is one of the main themes in a broad, sweeping first season that delves deeply into the lives of its two protagonists.

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