History WebVideo / CarmillaTheSeries

[[https://www.youtube.com/c/KindaTV/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=25 The whole series is available to watch]] on Website/YouTube. It can also be purchased [[http://carmillaxmasbundles.vhx.tv on VHX.]][[note]]Season 3 is available with purchase of the movie. Season 0 is exclusive to Youtube.[[/note]] There's an official web novella, ''[[http://carmillaseries.tumblr.com/post/100859236840/ Silas Confidential]]'', about Laura's dorm neighbor Mary Ringwold.

* AlternateUniverse:
** The original book takes place in the Victorian era. Sheridan Le Fanu's original story says that Laura is dead in the book's prologue, and at the end of the novella Carmilla dies. In this version, the story is set in the modern day, Carmilla and Laura are roommates, and Carmilla's BackStory is changed. The show leaves just enough wiggle room to imply (via "L") that the events of the novella still more or less happened, sans Carmilla's demise.
** One appears briefly within the series. [[spoiler: Laura visits it briefly near the end of season three. She is sent there by JP/The Library in order to get the fourth talisman but ultimately fails. The sheer darkness of the AU, in which "everyone had given up", convinces her that they have to try and stop the Dean, no matter what.]]

* ZettaiRyouiki: Carmilla sports a Grade B with [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]]. It's surprisingly cute.

''Carmilla'' is a web series adaptation of [[Literature/{{Carmilla}} the book of the same name]] set in [[SettingUpdate the modern day]]. It concluded in the fall of 2016, with three good-sized seasons and a large amount of extra material. [[Film/TheCarmillaMovie A movie]], set five years after the GrandFinale, released October 2017. It is available for purchase [[http://carmillamovie.vhx.tv here.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Laura, for effectively acting as Baron Vordenberg's campaign manager and allowing him to replace Mattie as Chair of the Silas Board. In which capacity [[TyrantTakesTheHelm he seizes total administrative power over the school]]—and ''puts out a death warrant for all vampires'' (confirmed or suspected).

* NonHeteronormativeSociety: The show is noted to take place in an extremely accepting world, where homophobia never even comes up — not even in the flashbacks to Victorian times. Even Carmilla's EvilMatriarch doesn't seem to care that Carmilla's gay; it's that she keeps falling for humans. The one exception is that Perry has difficulty accepting that her childhood friend LaFontaine is non-binary and now goes by they/them, but she's the only character to have such issues and she's portrayed as being unambiguously in the wrong. [[CharcterDevelopment She also gets over it]].

** The Dean has an extra array of powers such as DemonicPossession and some sort of [[CastingAShadow shadow magic]], and is implied to be vastly more powerful than Carmilla. Presumably this is due to her connection with the Light. Season 3 reveals that [[spoiler:this is because she is in fact not just a vampire – she's a goddess]].

* ProductPlacement: U by Kotex is an executive producer on the series, and bonus videos exist with the cast advertising them ''in character''. It's cleverly worked into the plot via the argument that female vampires need the blood all the more, for … obvious reasons.

-->'''The Dean:''' Oh, you’ve been reading Berkeley’s transcriptions. That man was obsessed. No, we just take girls because it’s traditional.

* NonHeteronormativeSociety: The show is noted to take place in an extremely accepting world, where homophobia never even comes up — not even in the flashbacks to Victorian times. Even Carmilla's EvilMatriarch doesn't seem to care that Carmilla's gay; it's that she keeps falling for humans. The one exception is that Perry has difficulty accepting that her childhood friend LaFontaine is non-binary and now goes by they/them, but she's the only character to have such issues and she's portrayed as being unambiguously in the wrong. [[ChaarcterDevelopment She also gets over it]].

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/VervegirlMagazine/playlists?sort=dd&view=50&shelf_id=25 The whole series is available to watch]] on Website/YouTube. It can also be purchased [[http://carmillaxmasbundles.vhx.tv on VHX.]][[note]]Season 3 is available with purchase of the movie. Season 0 is exclusive to Youtube.[[/note]] There's an official web novella, ''[[http://carmillaseries.tumblr.com/post/100859236840/ Silas Confidential]]'', about Laura's dorm neighbor Mary Ringwold.

** An episode after Perry finds a bunch of students brutally murdered, Carmilla makes a joke about it. TooSoon! [[invoked]]

* GreyingMorality: Season 1 has the completely good RagtagBunchOfMisfits against the completely evil vampire coven, with one of the seemingly evil vampires being GoodAllAlong. Meanwhile the apparent villain of Season 2 is not as evil as everyone assumes, the apparent helpful character is a WellIntentionedExtremist, and the main characters [[NiceJobBreakingItHero make a lot of things worse]] and keep performing morally questionable actions just to stay ahead. [[spoiler:The Dean]] however manages to get even ''more'' evil.

* BadDreams: Seems to afflict all the girls before they're abducted. Then Laura starts getting them...

* CatharticChores: In one episode, Perry copes with a stressful situation by cleaning the dorm. Carmilla wakes up the next morning where she'd been sleeping on the floor and as she's getting her bearings, asks: "Did you vacuum around me?"

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[[caption-width-right:302:Love will have its sacrifices. Oh boy, will it ''ever'' have its sacrifices.]]

* TheOnlyOne: Since Campus Security are controlled by [[BigBad The Dean]], the Police's official stance is that Silas University doesn't exist and no private investigator will step foot on campus, Laura and her friends determine that they are the only people who can save the missing girls.

* VampiresHateGarlic: In season 1, the students incapacitate a vampire by duct-taping her to a chair and putting a string of garlic around her neck.
* VegetarianVampire: Although she never expresses doing it for moral reasons, Carmilla very rarely drinks blood directly from a person. A soy milk container full of blood seems to hit the spot.

** We also don't see much of Danny biting Kirsch in the season two finale, or [[spoiler: Dean Morgan digging out LaF's eye in season three.]] We do get a [[SarcasmMode nice look]] at the bloodied makeshift bandages afterward, though.

-->'''Carmilla''': Well, why does anyone start a cult? Wealth, power, eternal youth... to get back at people you knew in high school...

** The ending of season 2 topped it, however. [[spoiler:Perry's not Perry -- she's being possessed by the Dean. Danny is resurrect and turned into a vampire. Mattie is brought back to life. And the Dean is putting her plans into action...]]

-->'''Nat!Laura:''' Danny told me that Carmilla wants to eat me, and I was like, "Yeah! She's a vampire! Obviously she wants to eat me!" But Danny was like, "No. She wants to ''eat'' you." And I was like, "Yeah, Danny, I know she wants to eat me." I just don't understand it!

-->'''[=LaFontaine=]''': We are ''ready'' for the weird. We thrive on it. We [[{{Film/Aliens}} tape our flamethrowers to our pulse rifles]] and we make the weird submit!

* AllThereInTheScript: The dean is not named in the first two seasons. The Silas University twitter gives her name as Lilita Morgan, though it could be a pseudonym. [[spoiler: It is. She's actually the goddess Inanna, of Sumerian mythology.]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Carmilla, Laura, Perry, and Lafontaine's attempt to escape from Silas in between seasons 1 and 2. Only vaguely alluded to at the very beginning of season 2, but the entire adventure is written up on the twitter accounts the cast cooked up for the characters. [[spoiler: The story involved angry villagers, barn fires, Kobolds, riddles, the whole nine yards.]]

* AMFMCharacterization: One of the first things Carmilla does when she is introduced is turn on rock music. Considering that she never plays music again (on screen - Laura complains on twitter), this was likely to quickly characterize her as someone who is rebellious, has a bit of an attitude problem and isn't going to be the most considerate roommate.

** In the Christmas Special, Carmilla (in one of her sweeter moments) suggests to a depressed Laura that they stick candles in outdated East-German snack-cakes and celebrate Christmas their own way. Though the brick doesn't land in the episode itself, [[https://twitter.com/Laura2theLetter/status/548146552284651520 it does happen to land on twitter]].
** A twitter only BrickJoke falls on [=LaFontaine=]'s twitter. Early on they wonder if [[https://twitter.com/LaFilphormes/status/531882505947721728 hot cocoa would taste better made over real fire]]. Come the mountain hiking and, well...[[https://twitter.com/LaFilphormes/status/546312954132832256 they lost their hair.]] Considering the access to a ''real fire'' perhaps [=LaFontaine=] took advantage of that and the hot cocoa that Perry packed...

* EldritchAbomination:The Light, an ancient evil that lurks beneath Silas and demands five {{Human Sacrifice}}s every twenty years. According to Laura's twitter the Light is just ''bait'' for the real abomination, like a "Giant Sumerian Anglerfish Horror".

* NoodleImplements: Sometime between the ChristmasSpecial and Season 2, Perry found a way to make waffles. While on the run in an abandoned barn. Oddly enough, it's somehow ''Laura'' [[https://twitter.com/Laura2theLetter/status/601040124344987648 who notes this oddness on her twitter feed.]] This also applies to most of what the Alchemy Club does.

** The trope is [[ZigZaggedTrope zigzagged]] during the stretch between Season 1 and Season 2. On the one hand, there are large gaps between the end of Season 1, the Christmas Special, and Season 2, which can logically be put down to main heroes travelling through the mountains to escape Silas, and thus less likely to have cell reception of any kind, much less enough to access twitter. Later, Laura, Carmilla and [=LaFontaine=] are sending tweets from ''within a mountain'' (a mountain with a magical gnoll in it, but a mountain all the same). [[OnlySaneMan Only Laura comments on this]].

* AssholeVictim: A mild example in both aspects, but the first time Carmilla demonstrates her SuperStrength is when she offhandedly pounds Kirsch senseless after he won't leave Laura alone.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: WordOfGod confirms this as the beginning point of Laura and Carm's relationship. The little kindnesses Laura extended to her in season one, like saying even she deserved better than hopelessness, or offering the trash can to throw her kleenex in because she was crying after the Dean chewed her out-apparently that was the first time anyone had been pointlessly nice to Carmilla in quite a while.

* DaddysLittleVillain: Mattie. Carmilla is heavily implied to have once been this. In season three, the Dean calls her "my high priestess".

* DeadpanSnarker: [=LaFontaine=]

* BigDamnKiss:

'''Laura''': To Hell with "light and casual!" ''(Cue the BigDamnKiss)''

''Carmilla'' is a web series adaptation of [[Literature/{{Carmilla}} the book of the same name]] set in [[SettingUpdate the modern day]]. It concluded in the fall of 2016, with three good-sized seasons and a large amount of extra material. A movie, set five years after the GrandFinale, released October 2017. It is available for purchase [[http://carmillamovie.vhx.tv here.]]

* AcademyOfAdventure: Silas is the sort of university ''Franchise/TheAddamsFamily'' or families from ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'' would have sent their kids to. The library has attacked Laura and [=LaFontaine=] with books and cards. The campus itself has a number of strange goings as well, such as giant mushrooms with zombie-creating spores by the alchemy club, eyeballs served during lunch, emergency procedures for escaping taco demons, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Mortal Combat is a pre-requisite for tenure]]. The main cast seem particularly aware of just how ''wrong'' these events are, although most of the staff and student body aren't until the Dean dies and the Light is extinguished anyways.

[[https://www.youtube.com/user/VervegirlMagazine/playlists?sort=dd&view=50&shelf_id=25 The whole series is available to watch]] on Website/YouTube. There's an official web novella, ''[[http://carmillaseries.tumblr.com/post/100859236840/ Silas Confidential]]'', about Laura's dorm neighbor Mary Ringwold.

* Myth/MesopotamianMythology: References to Mesopotamian mythology (specifically, Sumerian) abound. The book of convenient exposition in Season 1 is referred to by the characters as the "Giant Sumerian Tome of Do-Not-Want." [[spoiler: It's very sneaky foreshadowing for a major revelation in s3. Lilita Morgan isn't a vampire. She isn't a demon at all. She's ''Inanna''.]]

* ShoutOutToShakespeare: After [=LaFontaine=] reveals that the Dean is Inanna, Laura exclaims, "Like a god? Like a full-honest Flies to Wanton Boys, Destroyer of Worlds, I am the Alpha and Omega ''God'', God?" "Flies to wanton boys" is a reference to ''Theatre/KingLear''; "Like flies to wanton boys are we to the gods, they kill us for their sport.

* MyHeartWillGoOn: Laura invokes this before the final battle with the Dean in Season 3, pleading with Carmilla not to let bitterness destroy her if she doesn't make it;
-->''"If one of us doesn't make it, the other one can't end up like the Dean, mad and bitter and destroying everything we touch. I don't want that to be our story, okay? Our story is that we made each other better."''