Life in a Medieval Town

Ever since we premiered Life in a Medieval Town at our Hobgoblins live show, the world has been experiencing a Beatlemania-level frenzy that can only be described as Seneschal Fever.

We’re living in the age of the Seneschal, baby! Seneschal T-shirts, Seneschal themed restaurants, and we recently learned that Seneschal was the number one baby name in 2022, regardless of gender. What is a Seneschal, and why is it so hard to spell? You can learn all about it with this newly recorded studio version of Life in a Medieval Town!

But there’s more to the short than just the Seneschal - as if he wasn’t enough! The film gives us an exciting low-budget window into feudal society in Europe, and a real historical appreciation for how much life sucked back then. You want a new hat? Better bring your best cow to town! And don’t forget to pay the “bringing your cow into town” tax, or you’ll probably be executed. It was a simpler time, and a worse one. Unless you were the Seneschal, of course, then you were heaping green fabric on your head and living large!

Pull up a milking stool, bleed yourself with leeches, and join Mike, Kevin, and Bill for Life in a Medieval Town!

Written by Mike Nelson, Bill Corbett, Conor Lastowka, and Sean Thomason

Digital Video file formats

Legacy devices (66.36 MB)
Low (101.99 MB)
Medium (185.86 MB)
High (TV) 480p (298.67 MB)
HD Low 720p (189.16 MB)
HD Medium 720p (300.89 MB)
HD High 1080p (1.67 GB)

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Poster art by Jason Martian
Poster art by Jason Martian

RiffMeter rating

9.66667
Average: 9.7 (33 votes)

Content Rating

TVPG Rating: TV-14

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Release date

July 21, 2023

Runtime

15 minutes
Closed Captions