Each week, we’re highlighting a new web series that you’ve got to check out.

The Benefits of Gusbandry is written, directed and produced by Alicia J. Rose. She made the crowdfunded webseries on a shoestring budget in Portland, Oregon – all while working her day job as a band photographer and music video director.

The series follows a weed-fueled love story about the super-close friendship between a gay man and a straight woman. In this first episode, chronically underemployed serial relationship-killer Jackie Rosenblum meets magnetic dreamboat River Manning on her debaucherous 40th birthday.