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What better way to prepare for the fast-approaching weekend than by indulging in the some of the Internet’s most well-done web content? Take advantage of your lunch break and treat yourself to Afternoon Delight, Decider’s carefully curated picks of the best short-form content available on the world wide web. This week we’re spotlighting City Girl, an uproarious rom-com web series based on the screenplay Sarah Ramos (Parenthood) wrote when she was 12-years-old.
Ever stop to think about how you saw “adulting” as a pre-teen? It was probably a lot more glamorous than what you experience now. Ramos (now 25), discovered a rom-com she had written in 2003, and instead of doing what we all probably would have – laughing in embarrassment and hiding the script forever – she decided to produce it. Her tween outlook on adult existence (and romance!) is something that’s so eerily accessible it’s something of a mystery that none of us thought to put our cringeworthy childhood stories to the screen before.
Ramos stars as Casey Jones, a 28-year-old city girl with a hip boutique job, crippling migraines, and a lackluster ex-boyfriend who just doesn’t understand her love of rap. Ramos hits the most common of rom-com conventions on the head; a sassy, h0t-mess best friend (yes, the Judy Greer character), a glamorous-yet-boring job, and an obstacle between Casey and her new love interest (he’s her doctor!). The early-2000s aesthetic and trends – bedazzled articles of clothing, emo coworkers, McDonalds as a “hip” lunch choice, and furry furniture – could not be more spot-on, and City Girl completely embraces it.
If the web series wasn’t already fun enough to watch, they ice the cake with a series of recognizable stars in the most ridiculous of roles. Alia Shawkat (Search Party, Arrested Development) stars as the constantly-stressed doctor’s assistant, Dylan Gelula (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt) is Casey’s mellow, perpetually smoking-in-a-bathtub best friend, and Casey’s jerky ex-boyfriend who just doesn’t get her is played by Dan Byrd (Easy A, Cougar Town). These are just a few of the familiar faces that make City Girl the one-of-a-kind joy that it is. Forget your troubles and travel back to how you saw your would-be life when you were 12. You won’t regret it.
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