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The Bitter End

Words by Jez Burrows, Monday 19 April 2010

The Bitter End is a smart, funny, and lovingly soundtracked comedy webseries created by a Montreal improv troupe of the same name. Superb, understated performances throughout, and (at the close of the first episode) perhaps one of the finest comedy falls of recent memory.

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