Held Up

Last weekend, I watched Marvel's The Avengers at the cinema and it got me into a superhero mood. That's why I would like to present to you Held Up today.

It's a 16-part comedy web series starring It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson, The Wire's Cyrus Farmer, Jon Dore from The Jon Dore Show and writer-producers Randy and Jason Sklar.

Set in a bank branch, the outlandish series centers around a bored teller named Ray (Dore) whose life changes dramatically after his bank is held up by two teams of dim-witted robbers dressed as Rocky I (Farmer), Rocky II (Olson) and Batman and Robin (the Sklar brothers). Over the course of the series, the hostages fall victim to a comedic version of the Stockholm Syndrome and begin sympathizing with their captors.

Here is the trailer:

It’s a character piece, and one of things the Sklar brothers are most proud of is the love story that develops between Ray and Rocky II. You can watch Held Up on http://www.crackle.com/c/Held_Up