Amazons Smash Hit ‘BACK STABBER’ - The Highly Impressive, Low Budget TV Show
The newest series on
Amazon is something you must see to believe!
If you haven’t already seen it, it’s a must see, so take
some time out each day and watch the 22 minute episodes. Nevertheless, if you love
it or hate it, the message behind it is something we all need right now. The
two co-producers, 27-year-old Ryan Zamo and 25-year-old Jordan Fraser, have mentioned
being bullied after coming out at 16. The show centers around acceptance,
anti-bullying and equality, and with the increasing mass killings in America
the show has come at the right time.
So about the overall series... we agree with mostly every
other review right now. ‘Back
Stabber’ is low budget, and you can tell in the first few episodes, but the
producers impeccable marketing is in our opinion what is making it so popular. Campaigning
the series as “a low budget, big passion” project , is hitting home with
viewers, and you can’t help but to love every second of it after knowing the
incredible story behind the show.
Ryan Zamo wrote the story 7 years ago, and tried to get
anyone in Hollywood to produce it, after 6 years of hearing “no thanks”, Zamo
decided to do it himself, he said, “The message behind it was something that
needed to be seen by the world, and we wrote these messages into the show in a
way that isn’t obvious, its subtler and sort of subconscious. We hope viewers
will fall in love with the relationship between the characters; the straight
guys love their gay friends, white friends love their black friends, the rich
love the poor and so on. They never contemplate their friendship based on what
they are, what they believe in or what their background is. They all just
accept each other for who they are.”
So for such a low budget project, why is everyone saying
‘Back Stabber’ will sweep the Golden Globes? Well, Zamo co- produced the show
with Jordan Fraser for under $2,000. The two of them did every single job
themselves, including filming, casting, wardrobe, editing, sound etc. The
driven co-producers didn’t know anything about post-production, and spent over
a year teaching themselves the ins and out of it, and that is what makes the
show absolutely amazing.
If you watch ‘Back Stabber’ knowing all of the blood, sweat
and tears that went into it, you will not even notice it’s major hiccups. And
like anything else, the more the series goes on and the more they learned, the
better the quality gets. Matt Vella from Time Magazine said it the best, “Let me
clarify that it’s not the quality or editing of ‘Back Stabber’ that deserves
recognition and awards, it’s the back story and passion behind it that needs to
be seen by the public, these 2 prove that anything is possible if you put your
mind to it.”
‘Back
Stabber’ has been accumulating massive press over the past 3 weeks since
its release. With major media outlets embracing the message of the show, it has
picked up serious steam, and has smashed the record with its low-budget
success. As the show continues to exponentially grow, its IMDB page jumped from
#355,000 in popularity to #40,000 in 2 weeks, and with no budget for
advertising and marketing, that’s extremely impressive to do. So, that’s our
review of it. Watch for yourself and see what you think, should it win at the
Golden Globes?
‘Back Stabber’ is available on Amazon now, is free to stream
with Amazon Prime, and can be downloaded without an Amazon account.
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