The Guild

2007

Seasons & Episodes

  • 6
  • 5
  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

8.2| 0h30m| TV-14| en
Synopsis

Fantasy and reality collide when a surprisingly diverse group of online video-game addicts struggle to balance the game with personal relationships.

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Also starring Sandeep Parikh

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Reviews

Tockinit not horrible nor great
Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.
Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.
Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Andy T Ignore people like shawnie138. He obviously has clear mental issues as obvious in his review wanting people to die. Moron. You don't have to be a gamer to enjoy this. It's fun. Pure and simple. Fun. I used to be a hardcore online gamer (then had to cut down due to the sheer number of adults acting like kindergarten kids in-game and ruining it for everyone else) so this got my interest. And I enjoyed it. When people start to nerd rage over a programme purely because it's unrealistic-even though it's just a TV show that's made for fun-it's obvious this show ain't for them. Just chill, relax and give it a shot. If you don't like it, it's a shame yeah. But at least you're not like the other idiotic reviewers who went into total butthurt mode over a TV show. Just grow up guys. You're embarrassing yourselves. TV shows are made for escapism. Live a little for gods sake.
Matthew Kenealy Every season of The Guild gets better, meaning that I would probably give Season 1 of the show a 7/10 while Season 6 deserves a 10/10. Why is this you may ask? They went from no budget, to fan donations, to being sponsored by Microsoft and are now sponsored by Google. What does this have to with the review. Well, the seasons of this show really reflect what budget it had at the time, the sets are often overused in the earlier seasons with very little music, wide shots or locations. The camera quality is especially low for the first few seasons but you will want to push through the first few seasons for the payoffs of character development you will get in the later characters.I feel like some characters in the show are slightly are extremely unlikable to the point of cringe-worthy in the earlier seasons. Zaboo seems even creepier that I imagine Felicia wrote him to be, Bladezz comes off as as a painful representation of a foul mouthed and ignorant teenage gamer and don't get me started with Zaboo's mother. I feel like they should have either gone for a different casting for her role or changed the centre of the jokes, I mean a 20 year old still getting baths from his mom gets old fast.Before you say, why 9/10 then. Why not average it out to an 8? Well simply put it is an unfair score for the greatness of Seasons 4-6, I mean there are still plenty of laughs in the first few seasons but S1-3 rely too heavily on the dialog and I found myself often finding other things to do while listening to the show more like a podcast than a webseries. In the later seasons they really get it, they finally find a good mix for Vork, who is the regimented rule following leader of The Guild, Bladezz is tolerable, Tink is cute and evil at the same time, Codex is still shy but now is willing to go out of her comfort zone and Clara is still as irresponsible as ever with her parenting but now you don't feel like reporting her to the police for poor parenting but she instead reminds you of those friends who have really bad parenting. The jokes in the later seasons are also less game centred and revolve more heavily around the gamers themselves making it easier for people who are not gamers to get involved in the series. As in S1 characters often talk about increased their DP and many other references that were difficult to understand unless you had played an MMO before.In summary, great show. Funny characters, but at the end of the day it is a webseries so locations, actors and camera equipment is usually not as high as you would expect on a regular TV show. I still highly recommend it and would probably call it the best webseries currently in existence.
manny-589-426367 Netflix recommended me to watch this show, and being a lifetime gamer and it had 4 stars, I figured I would give it a shot.Holy hell Netflix, way to let me down.This show is TERRIBLE. I'm not just posting this to be argumentative, but every other review is at 8-10 stars and I felt I had to provide a balancing opinion.Seriously, this type of show is insulting. This just highlights how wrong the public's interpretation of "video game addicts" really is. The behaviours in this show are representative of maybe the 12-year old trolls you'd find on Xbox live, and only the lead girl has personality that is actually plausible. I have been playing games all my life and been on MMOs for the past 6 years and never met people so absolutely incompetent at real life as these caricatures. Real gamers have lives inside and outside the game. They don't talk in 1337speak at the diner table, or bring their own cheese to a restaurant and quote savings as a mathematical advantage, or take off and make absolutely detestable creepy moves on girls they know a screen name for based on an emoticon.If you have any respect for yourself or for the game industry or for people in general, don't watch this terrible mockery of a TV show. This does nothing but poke fun of blatant stereotypes in the most unfunny ways possible, that only a high schooler would find funny.
ffiisshh I watched the first three seasons of "The Guild" and I haven't laughed so hard in years. My wife doesn't get it; My friends do't get it, but I do, and that's all that counts. Although I am an older dude (in my 40's and I am an X-Box gamer) and I don't do any on-line role playing, I was heavily into Dungeons and Dragons as a teen, so I can totally appreciate and relate to all of the characters' personality types. I can especially relate to Vork as "the Dungeon Master" type, taking his little world way too seriously to the point of being oblivious to life's nuances. Bladezz - I knew a kid who looked and sounded just like him, in the 80's, ...Didn't we all? Clara, the mom who neglects her family in favor of the Guild (hey, that's me!). Tink, the ultimate opportunist....And Codex....ahhh....Codex, trying to keep it all together. Felicia Day is absolutely a comic genius...I wonder if she realizes this yet. Anyway, watch The Guild, you'll laugh yourself silly.