You’d be surprised how binge-worthy they are
After a long and exhausting Monday, you’re finally home. You just want to kick off your shoes, crawl into bed, and put on a good movie or TV show to escape into another world.
If you choose to put on a local production, then congratulations, you are doing something different from the majority.
When it comes to entertainment, many of us go for Hollywood, Netflix or Korean dramas. But there’s nothing like local content that can give us something familiar to relate to, through people who actually look like us on screen. Don’t limit that screen to traditional TV and the Mediacorp shows – YouTube and even Netflix are home to plenty of excellent local web series, produced by Singapore independent production companies and starring talented rising actors. They may be produced on a tighter budget, but these five web series don’t skimp out on quality, and some have the awards to back them up.
So get comfy with your laptop or phone, and put away your assumptions about our local entertainment. You’ve never seen modern dating, friendships and office politics in Singapore explored like this.
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5. KAKI FUYONG
We all know the struggle of staying close with our friends after we move on to the next phase in our school lives. That’s what the three secondary school friends face in KAKI FUYONG after they enter poly. As they juggle life at a big campus and classes far apart from one another, the friends made a promise to meet up for kaki fuyong at the cafeteria no matter how busy they get. But over the three years of poly, new opportunities come up that shake up their friendship. Will they choose to pursue a future that threatens to change everything they knew in the past? Local YouTube channel Butterworks teamed up with Ngee Ann Polytechnic to make this four-episode web series that will make you laugh, cry and want to call up your old secondary school friends again.
Start watching all four episodes here.
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