I think Josh Cohen’s writeup on Tilzy.com really hits the
mark regarding The Guild. The show has great potential to break some boundaries
for online drama; a thing which is exciting to watch. What I really enjoy is
Ms. Day’s writing. She has a wonderful sense
of the absurdities and tensions of the casual yet somehow personal
relationships of online communities and channels these tensions in believable
ways through her socially-deprived and neurotic heroine, Codex. The troupe of
social dysfuncts, the Guild, who all require the fiction of the game, and most
deliciously of all, eachother, to fill some fundamental void in their lives, and
more profoundly to help answer the question of who they are, has a dramatic
potential greater than I have seen in many years of surfing trite video
garbage. This is smart and funny stuff. Oddly enough, the fine line The Guild
walks between an amateur video (claustrophobic home-sets, video diary) and
professional production (camerawork, editing, acting) adds to not subtracts
from its charm. Keep up the great work on this series, guys. Your accolades are
well deserved.
-Fan of the Guild