8 very short series with episodes to 20 minutes

In the era of saturation TV shows content adapted to the needs of the audience and experiment with short formats. Such a stream like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu in the US and "the Kinopoisk HD", Start, Okko in Russia, or buy the series for exclusive sale in its platform, or create them yourself. The duration of episodes is also changing: today they can be no longer than 20 minutes, although it seemed that the shorter sitcoms — except that the is.

Were small studios, mobile TV shows, such as New Form or application Quibi. Last start April 6 with 50 projects with big names in the credits — so, the service is available the reality show with Jennifer Lopez, the show "Survive" with Sophie Turner (Sansa stark from "Game of thrones"), the film is a Thriller with Liam Hemsworth and other projects. In the future it is also planned horror series "After dark" by Steven Spielberg, which can be viewed only in the dark, and collaboration with authors and producers of the level of Steven Soderbergh, Reese Witherspoon and Guillermo del Toro (in Russia, the app is not yet available).

One of the producers of the 18-episode series made by the master of thrillers, David Fincher. Each episode is a whole story that develops in the future, and it is unclear ― all stories take place in one Universe (or at least on the same planet) or we are talking about several alternative Universes. Whether a great artist named Winter, which was a small homemade device, a sex worker from futuristic Hong Kong, which is stuck in a time loop, or farmers who are fighting with the alien parasites in the giant avatars to robots ― all this, according to the creators, we are waiting for, you only need to carefully monitor exactly when we in the future will be.

A parody of the cult animated series Seth green and Matthew Senreich for a dozen seasons has long been known outside the geek community. Each series is built on the principle of short skits and scenes, which are replaced like changing the channel. Robot chicken is a mechanical policyplan that in the Intro, the mad Professor puts in front of the TV. This is a clear reference to "a Clockwork orange" by Anthony Burgess, and robot chicken ― the spectator glued to the screen.

Black humor in the episodes may seem excessively cruel, the show even from season to season, tried to close, if you believe its creators (although the ratings of "robot Chicken" to the contrary). Green and Senreich each season begins with a joke about how they tried to close, but nothing came of it.

Comedian Tim Robinson, who for seven years wrote scripts for the popular show Saturday Night Live, co-wrote and Executive producer of her own sketch show. In each episode Tim and invited comedians from SNL cast everyday scenes familiar to everyone ― be it the presentation of gifts at a birthday party, sharing the posts in social networks, travelers in public transport, mass in the Church, a date or advertising.

In each sketch the characters of Tim make and the other heroes, and the audience was awkward. But this is only on the surface ― in fact, Robinson is as thoughtful anthropologist and psychologist, forcing us to rethink the sometimes absurd social conventions.

This series called "True detective" with the characters-teenagers. Sixteen-year-old girl named Ayla tied in the trunk, an unknown man in a mask taking her on a night winter road. Kyle manages to escape, but after that she will spend many hours in the cold, lost.

Nonlinear narrative throws us to the beginning — in fact, the girl arrived in his native godforsaken town near Toronto in search of the truth. Her father is in jail for killing her mom, but swears he's innocent. Ayla believes him and with the help of a new friend of Tina conducts its own investigation, which is faced with the chilling details of murders of women ― and, perhaps, her mother's murder is one of them.

Studio New Form ("Cold" — also their production) and this time decided to work with ultra-short form. Each episode of "Stories from the Internet" does not last longer than five or six minutes and based on the posts of real people from social networks. It is no secret that the threads on the resource Reddit sometimes spawned conspiracy theories, ran a chain of rumors and commentary of the entire war. A few minutes of the episode, we learn a short history of the strangers -- fiction, horror stories, jokes, revelations, and can themselves make a choice, to believe in them or not.

Perhaps the authors wanted to invest in this course a metaphysical sense: do not take for granted everything you read on the Internet in posts and comments, and that life can be more fantastic than any fiction.

The series is based on a novel by Alex Morel, in the end, depression of a woman named Jane (Sophie Turner). She and a man named Paul (a colleague of Turner at "Game of thrones" Corey Hawkins) — sole survivor of the crash. Jane tries to recover from the experience and return to society, Paul helps her in this and at the same time, he struggles with his own demons. Despite the fact that critics greeted coolly this work Turner (they are predicting a more serious role), the actress admits that this is an important project for her because she went through dark times in their lives.

The cycle of short documentaries in a convenient mobile format brings the documentary to a new level. Each episode is a story about choreographers, video Directors, stage designers and all those who worth the Herculean work of famous artists. For example, Derek Ali made the sound for Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, SZA, and other artists, stylist Jasmine Benjamin is dressing stars for the red carpet and the Met Gala, Director and creative producer Gabriel Fraboni set of performances by Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, and dancer Brian Nichols worked in the dancer Ariana Grande.

The web series began as a native project for Modelbank, and became a separate series for young entrepreneurs. In the story the guy Bogdan wants to start their own business and get rich, he uses the advice of business coaches and is good to his arguments. For initial capital, he goes to his grandmother, she invests ― and Bogdan is in a hurry to buy the bakery "Sweet bread". The bakery has a sex shop, and instead of the spirited team ― the tortured life of the girl. But Bogdaša not discouraged and continues to develop inherited a business that tries to sell the grease to the Dagestan wrestlers, will launch into space with a rubber vagina.

What other "series for the evening," you know?