This weekâs short film is not a short film but a web series called âThe Coffee Tableâ by the playwright, director, and, to use the words of the popular blog io9, Seattle's geek auteur, Scotto Moore. What it is: 15 4-minute episodes that bring together the universes of âDoctor Who [and] Greatest American Hero.â What itâs about: An alien coffee table that transports a middle-class American family from this dimension into another (the void). The big picture: It is a comedy and not a comedy; itâs serious and not serious; it is cheesy and not cheesy; it is intellectual and not intellectual; it is silly and not sillyâthatâs the kind of wonderful zone we enter in Mooreâs new work. The series also has great performances (LaChrista Borgers, Pamala Mijatov, Jen Moon, Evan Mosher, Jonah Von Spreecken) and good low-budget special effects by Web Crowell, who is also working on a web series. The ending is a bit sad.