{"id":43382,"date":"2015-10-21T20:59:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T20:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=43382"},"modified":"2015-10-21T21:11:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T21:11:59","slug":"new-hysterical-web-series-explores-single-life-for-40-something-women-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=43382","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018Hysterical\u2019 Web Series Explores Single Life for 40-Something Women of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/chicrebellion.tv\/video\/entertainment\/esther-friedman-hysterical-historical-hillary-web-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">New \u2018Hysterical\u2019 Web Series Explores Single Life for 40-Something Women of Color<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chicrebellion.tv\" target=\"_blank\">Chic Rebellion<\/a><br \/>\n2015-10-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elaynefluker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Elayne Fluker<\/a><\/strong>, Chief Executive Officer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, marriage is hard. I\u2019m not always happy\u2013the shit gets hard.\u201d So goes a line by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainpryor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rain Pryor<\/a> to actress <a href=\"http:\/\/www.estherfriedman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esther Friedman<\/a> in Friedman\u2019s new web series, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hhhwebseries\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Hysterical Historical Hillary<\/em><\/a>\u2013which screens at the <a href=\"http:\/\/bushwickfilmfestival.com\/2015-bff\/web-series-screening\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bushwick Film Festival<\/a> on Saturday, October 3, 2015 in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn, New York<\/a>. Friedman plays Hillary, a 40-something woman longing for love in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a>. Having had a successful web series on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.funnyordie.com\/?_cc=__d___&amp;_ccid=lhgjin.nvi96x\" target=\"_blank\">FunnyorDie.com<\/a> in 2008 and a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014 that raised $8430, the New York native teamed up with her sixteen-year-old brother Sam Friedman, already an award winning filmmaker, to tell stories of what they call \u201cthe not-so-hot topics of human experiences.\u201d And as any singleton in New York knows that if dating in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">Big Apple<\/a> is anything it is certainly an <em>experience!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>ChicRebellion.TV<\/strong> caught up with Friedman to chat about meaning of the phrase \u201chysterical historical, her personal connection to Hillary, if web series have helped even the playing field for women of color who have a story to tell, and why she chose the path less traveled when deciding how to distribute her work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xMuamwXA9eo?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"http:\/\/chicrebellion.tv\/video\/entertainment\/esther-friedman-hysterical-historical-hillary-web-series\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New \u2018Hysterical\u2019 Web Series Explores Single Life for 40-Something Women of Color Chic Rebellion 2015-10-01 Elayne Fluker, Chief Executive Officer \u201cYou know, marriage is hard. I\u2019m not always happy\u2013the shit gets hard.\u201d So goes a line by Rain Pryor to actress Esther Friedman in Friedman\u2019s new web series, Hysterical Historical Hillary\u2013which screens at the Bushwick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20,25],"tags":[21173,21511,21512,21510,14359,21513],"class_list":["post-43382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-chic-rebellion","tag-elayne-fluker","tag-esther-friedman","tag-hysterical-historical-hillary","tag-rain-pryor","tag-sam-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43384,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382\/revisions\/43384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}