The House Between

It's a house.

Surrounded by an infinite void of darkness.

Inescapable.

Five strangers are brought to the "house at the end of the universe" in The House Between, an internet original science-fiction series. Created by pop-culture scholar John Kenneth Muir, the House between is to Big Brother what Lost is to Survivor, but, thankfully, with a resolution (of sorts) at the end of the first season.

What's cool about the show is that you can watch the entire first season in an afternoon, and I did- I had seen a rough cut of the first episode a while back and I didn't realize that the show had indeed had its run.  I've made up for lost time.

Arrived is the first episode, and you can tell Muir is a pop culture kind of guy who has seen oodles of television: it's a by the book pilot, but in a good way.  It follows a singer, Astrid, as she wakes up in an unfamiliar surrounds.  We follow her as she learns her new environment and meets the characters there- Arlo, a pixie-ish manchild who lives in the kitchen, Bill, the voice of reason, and Travis, the show's jerk.

A fifth castmember joins at the end of the show and her story, and that of their situation, is expanded on in the second episode.

These five people are all of the story for, with the exception of one episode, the entire seven episode run.

The small cast and the simple set are reminiscent of the movie The Cube without the deathtraps.  In The House Between, the danger isn't from something that lurks in the rooms, it's something that lurks in the characters.

And there's a lot lurking in these people, characters like onions, peel one layer away there's another beneath.

From the above link for Arrived, you can watch the first episode, with the rest of the episodes here.

The only negative thing I can say about The House Between is that there won't be any new episodes until next year.

Humbug.

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