Anyone But Me
| Anyone But Me | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by |
Susan Miller Tina Cesa Ward |
| Directed by | Tina Cesa Ward |
| Starring |
Rachael Hip-Flores Nicole Pacent Jessy Hodges Joshua Holland Alexis Slade Mitchell S. Adams Barbara Pitts Dan Via Liza Weil |
| Ending theme | Noah Figlin |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 31 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Susan Miller Tina Cesa Ward |
| Location(s) | New York |
| Editor(s) | Tina Cesa Ward |
| Camera setup | Ava Berkofsky |
| Running time | Varies (usually 6–15 minutes) |
| Release | |
| Original release | 2008 – 2011 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Anyone But Me is an American web series that first aired on Strike.TV in 2008. The series has since been offered on its own website and on other online streaming platforms such as YouTube and Hulu. The series focuses on LGBT themes and is presented in serial short-format webisodes, each lasting between six and fifteen minutes, following the lives of a group of teenagers in New York City and Westchester County, New York.
The series was developed by Tina Cesa Ward and playwright Susan Miller from Ward's original work.
The series centers around the experiences of Vivian McMillan (Rachael Hip-Flores), a sixteen-year-old lesbian whose father's illness prompts the two of them to move from Manhattan to the home of Vivian's maternal aunt in Westchester, about 30 minutes away. Vivian attempts to maintain her relationship with her girlfriend Aster Gaston (Nicole Pacent) while enrolling in a new school, negotiating old childhood connections, and establishing a new social circle in what she perceives to be a substantially different environment from her previous home in the city.
As the series begins, Vivian has been living as an openly gay high-school student whose romance with Aster appears well-known to those around her. When she arrives at her new suburban home and school, she declines to reveal her sexuality or relationship to her aunt, to a local schoolmate she has known since childhood, or to most of her peers. In public, she also frequently minimizes Aster's role in her life to avoid exposure of the sexual nature of their relationship. This sets up a number of conflicts as well as a dialogue in Episode 8 of Season 1 on whether or not gay pride is an essential element of an intimate gay relationship.
Vivian's anxiety about publicizing her sexuality in Westchester is driven by her belief that her family and friends living there would not be as tolerant or accepting as she found them to be in Manhattan. The one person who quickly discovers Vivian's secret is Archibald (Joshua Holland), an African-American student at her school. In Episode 3 of Season 1, Vivian and Archibald discuss their common feeling that a largely white, traditional community would never fully embrace them because of their minority status. This perception is challenged by other characters, including Vivian's childhood friend Sophie (Jessy Hodges), who upon learning the truth is less upset that Vivian is gay and more offended that Vivian assumed she would be intolerant.
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