Paragon School For Girls is a new web series by Jim Hansen, whose production company the Orphans has created Chloe videos starring Drew Droege as a name-dropping ingenue who resembles an actress of the same name, and the Eirick videos starring Out.com contributor Jeffery Self as a self- (ha!) obsessed summer scarf-wearer, among other creations.
At the series outset, Violet (Michael J. Willet, Faking It) is being delivered by helicopter to a remote school on a rocky pinnacle, with no seeming escape. Welcomed, in a manner of speaking by Ms. Click (Droege) and Mrs. Copperpenny (Sam Pancake, Legally Blonde 2), Violet soon meets her fellow students at the creepy school, including Millicent (Self) who takes Violet under her blonde wings. Meanwhile, the long-suffering Maid (Space Station 76 writer Jack Plotnick) watches, and all from a set comprised of some model train set parts, and a few dollhouses.
Is Paragon like Hogwarts? Is it a school for assassins? What are the mysterious skills the girls exhibit, before suddenly disappearing? Each short episode is accompanied by a 2-minute interlude full of intrigue, mediocre wigs, and more of the all-female cast of characters. Tom Lenk (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) plays agent V., and Bryan Safi ("That's Gay") plays Agent Cutter.
Watch all six episodes and interludes here.
Years before Stonewall, a cafeteria riot became a breakthrough for trans rights
All about the Compton's Cafeteria riot, when drag queens and trans women rose up against police at a diner in San Francisco.