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When he’s pressured into attending a dinner party hosted by his boss, a man who suffers from a rare food allergy must navigate the most stressful night of his life with one primary objective: just don’t throw up in front of everyone.
Nov 2025
Two former rivals reconnect over drinks and a quick bite. One is compulsively running through men and can’t kick the habit of drinking their blood, and the other is working through her trauma and settling down with a new career in monster counseling. Things get a little uncomfortable when the conversation turns to the same toxic lover that connected them — Count Dracula — one of whom is still entangled with him.
Sep 2024
Two strangers wake up in a mysterious white room with no way out or memory of their past. The two must unravel their identity while navigating a corporate metaverse that controls virtually every aspect of its employees’ online reality. A story about finding yourself.
Jun 2024
Charl: an adorable googly-eyed coconut turned pop culture sensation who is secretly a genocidal robot from another universe. In 5 days he’s going to murder the entire planet, and the only people who might be able to stop him are a multiverse-hopping law enforcement officer and a failed author obsessed with cartoons. The season finale of the long-running Charl storyline on the Patrick (H) Willems channel.
Jun 2022
All the world’s a stage and Jen and Sam have learned the hard way, being trapped in a Shakespearean multiverse. On their quest to discover the doorway back to reality they notice something unusual about Henry ‘Hotspur’ Percy.
Jun 2025
Old people run the world. With wealth flowing upward and octogenarians in power, life for the young is tougher than ever. Join Tom Nicholas as he uncovers the rise of the gerontocracy and the questionable legacy of the Baby Boomers.
Nov 2024
A scientific paper sparks controversy and congressional inquiry. Bias influences perceptions of evidence and testimony in the misconduct investigation, impacting future such probes.
May 2025
In 2019, 1.2 million people stepped off a cruise ship into the small, south-east Alaskan town of Ketchikan. The next year, in 2020, zero did. After decades of diligent work building a sleepy fishing, mining, and logging town into one of the most sought after cruise destinations in the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed Ketchikan into an empty shell—lined with restaurants, shops, and attractions for the visitors who no longer come. Now, the town must find a way to survive without its key economy until the day arrives when cruise visitors once again pour into its docks.
Apr 2021
What started as a simple design choice led to something much more meaningful. When Nebula found itself facing exorbitant fees to license the font it relied on for all of its branding, the company decided to find a new font that would work just as well. Along the way, they met a font designer who had a personal story reflective of the company’s own values, a champion of diversity and inclusion whose work can be found on the device you’re using right now.
Apr 2025
Alien Perez Cruz fled from Cuba to the last nation willing to give him paperwork, Uruguay. He is among an exodus that in the last three years has seen over thirty thousand Cubans flee through the jungles of Guyana and Brazil on their way to a better life. In Uruguay, Alien is looking for a future where he can provide for his family. But at home, his family tells a different story. This is the story of a Cuban who risked it all, and the people who supported him that he had to leave behind. It's the story of Alien.
Jun 2020
The Colorado River is the foundation of the American Southwest. But the confluence of a once-in-a-millennium drought, a hundred-year-old mistake, and a generations-old conflict have put the river-–and the civilization built atop it––in crisis, and at a crossroads. As the southwest continues to grow, and the river continues to shrink, time is running out to solve the problem of the Colorado.
Feb 2022
The Wayuu people of Colombia and Venezuela’s La Guajira Desert are in danger of going extinct, but if their history has taught us anything, it’s that they’re not going down without a fight. Wayuu Resistance explores the indigenous group’s history, culture, and modern-day struggles, and begs the question: Do the Wayuu have a future?
Sep 2022
Macau has a unique story to tell, and one that sheds light on the turbulence next-door.
May 2021
The story behind the construction and operation of the first-ever airport on Saint Helena Island. St. Helena, a British Overseas Territory located in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, is one of the most isolated islands in the world. Its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is well below that of the rest of the United Kingdom. The reduction in travel times from days to hours will hopefully create an economic boom on the island.
Dec 2019
Land is supposed to be the embodiment of permanence, but what happens when it's not? What is life like when the nation you live in has an expiration date?
May 2020
Patrick Willems attempts to host a throwback musical/comedy Christmas variety show, until a supernatural curse and a series of visitations force him to make a series of video essays analyzing the past, present, and future of the topic he swore years ago never to discuss again…Star Wars.
Dec 2023
On a forgotten world in The Santum, the fugitive ex-Inquisitor Castian Vadric discovers secrets about his people's ancient past, leading him on a pursuit of his distressed lover, Valendra.
Dec 2024
This is the incredible story of the unbelievable series of events leading up to Japan's most insane airplane hijacking.
The most sophisticated and expensive aircraft ever produced, the B-2 Spirit can strike any adversary, anywhere in the world, with near impunity. Even after three decades, the B-2 is still shrouded in mystery.
Dec 2022
Which medium is the best at worldbuilding? This video essay explores this question.
Nov 2021