Adulthood is truly terrifying in the lo-fi horror-comedy series GRAVES
The looming specter of one’s 30th birthday can be vexing for anyone, but it’s especially troubling for the late-twentysomethings who inhabit GRAVES, a strangely charming horror-comedy webseries from creators Terence Krey and Dan Fox, who previously gave the internet the 13-episode Oh, Inverted World series. The characters in GRAVES are dealing with demons both figurative and extremely literal. As teenagers, a group of friends had some kind of serious run-in with the forces of darkness. One friend didn’t make it out alive, and the rest seem to feel some sort of supernatural survivor’s guilt. Ten years later, they are aimless, underachieving quasi-adults who don’t seem able to get away from their depressing little home town. Their jobs are jokes, they’re broke, their love lives are DOA, and they’re also plagued by snarling, horned demons. At least Jane is. She’s the series’ sardonic, directionless protagonist. Think Daria except plagued by forces beyond human reckoning. By day, Jane “works” at a local comic book shop and snarls at customers. By night, she is visited by a cackling, blue-skinned creature identified in press materials as Astaroth. Don’t ask him about his full name though. Getting through that takes a while.