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\n\tIt\u2019s the start of a brutally hot day in Southern California and a makeup professional is spritzing actor Carter Harvey\u2019s hair to mimic sweat. According to the project\u2019s script, his character, Clay, has just stormed out of an illegal underground fight, which is why the artist is also carefully painting artful bruises on his body. \u201cCan we get more sweat on his back?\u201d asks the director, Jessie Barr.<\/p>\n

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\n\tHarvey\u2019s scene partner is actress Olivia Rose Williams, who plays a spoiled high school popular girl seeking a personal bodyguard to shield her from a persistent ex. Discovering her hot classmate has the moves of Brad Pitt in Fight Club<\/em> is a convenient development. In between takes, Barr \u2014 a tall woman with a mop of short blond hair and a seemingly boundless enthusiasm for romance stories \u2014 reminds the two actors of the vibe she\u2019s going for. \u201cIt\u2019s Katherina and Petruchio,\u201d she says, referencing The Taming of the Shrew<\/em>, Shakespeare\u2019s tale of a turbulent romance.<\/p>\n

\n\tWilliams demonstrates her dedication to her craft by jumping up and down with Harvey before at least one take to get the heaving chests the drama requires, even as she\u2019s wearing a restrictive getup of kitten heels, a miniskirt and a shirt with a corset aesthetic. During the scene, the actors stand close, staring into each other\u2019s eyes, as Williams threatens to reveal her classmate\u2019s illegal fighting habit to authorities unless he agrees to protect her: \u201cYou want me to keep quiet? Either you be my personal guard dog or I turn you in,\u201d she snarls. \u201cWhat sounds better: guard dog or prison bitch?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cKatherina and Petruchio! Meryl and Raul Julia!\u201d Barr reminds her cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tWelcome to one of the few booming production spaces in Los Angeles in 2026: the colorful and lusty world of microdramas.This cast and crew is shootingFight Dirty<\/em>, the latest title from a San Francisco-based romance verticals app called CandyJar. It\u2019s one of many firms racing to become a go-to destination for these over-the-top, dopamine-triggering stories in the U.S. Marketing their wares on social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram, microdrama apps tend to offer a certain number of one-minute-ish episodes for free, hoping to persuade viewers to pay for further installments or subscriptions. (Full series typically run one to two hours.)<\/p>\n

\n\tThough individual budgets are small \u2014 CandyJar tells me Fight Dirty<\/em>\u2019s budget is anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000 \u2014 some industry analysts project big things from the format. The microdrama industry, an estimated $11\u202fbillion global business in 2025, could grow to $14\u202fbillion by year\u2019s end, according to research company Omdia. American consumers are spending more time on select microdrama apps than on traditional streaming platforms on mobile, with ReelShort outcompeting Netflix on daily minutes watched and NetShort beating Disney+, per Omdia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs microdrama companies build their libraries, they\u2019re enlisting Hollywood creatives at the start of their careers or experiencing occupational lulls. Years earlier, these types might have flocked to indie film, reality television or B movies to gain a paycheck and a line on their r\u00e9sum\u00e9. But now, with production levels at depressing lows in the L.A. area, many are racking up IMDb credits in this campy training ground, spending long workdays filming on-the-nose dialogue, hungry once-overs andnear-kisses in the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs a reporter who focuses on production and labor in L.A., I was intrigued by verticals\u2019 rise and wanted to dive a little deeper, even as the romance genre \u2014 which dominates the microdrama space \u2014 isn\u2019t necessarily my thing. (A grumpy millennial former English major whose consumption of love stories is generally limited to the occasional reread of the Janes \u2014Austen and Eyre<\/em>\u2014 I roll my eyes at friends when they talk about their romantasy habits.) I didn\u2019t know what to expect from this industry-within-the-industry that is routinely cranking out smutty tales of billionaires, werewolves, vampires and enemies who become lovers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tI embed on the third day of the Fight Dirty<\/em> shoot, when the crew is on location at a 1920s-era mansion in the exclusive Hollywood Dell neighborhood. The stately manor has plenty of space, but all six scenes on the day\u2019s call sheet are being shot in a second-story bedroom. The production will film in other areas of the house at another time. In general, microdramas typically will only shoot in a few locations to keep costs low.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe room has been decked out almost entirely in varying shades of pink, from a blush-colored satin bedspread to hot pink curtains. In part that seems to be in keeping with Williams\u2019 prissy Cher Horowitz-like character, but also a CandyJar executive producer, Kelly Ann Parker, tells me visual texture like color and wallpaper translates well to microdramas, as well as nice floors and ceilings, given the vertical nature of the screen. Barr, the director, is wearing white corduroy pants that feature illustrations of the heads of Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes from 1996\u2019s Baz Luhrmann film Romeo + Juliet<\/em> on each knee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFirst up is a scene that sees Williams\u2019 character open up about her absentee mom to Harvey\u2019s bad-boy type. They also nearly kiss \u2014 twice, by my count \u2014 but she ends up suggestively applying an overnight lip mask instead. The cast and crew will spend nearly the entire day painstakingly filming moments of sexual tension like this, and the stars additionally will shoot a hookup scene with an intimacy coordinator on a closed set in the afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWith about 915,000 global downloads in April, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower, CandyJar is a smaller-size player in the burgeoning bite-size drama space. The top two most downloaded apps in 2025, ReelShort and DramaBox, had 18\u202fmillion and 11\u202fmillion, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company focuses on the bread-and-butter of the microdrama industry at present: romance stories of all stripes. High school love stories, supernatural love stories and \u201ccontract marriage\u201d stories \u2014 where couples enter into marital agreements for reasons besides love before they inevitably find out they have chemistry \u2014 abound on the app. Popular titles include The Bad Boy Wants Me<\/em>, Falling for My Bodyguard<\/em>, Luna Graced <\/em>and Rooming With the Devil<\/em>. Viewers can watch CandyJar series either in micro- dramas\u2019 classic vertical (portrait) format or in a horizontal (landscape) format. Like other microdrama apps, CandyJar allows viewers to watch full series by paying for subscriptions or by buying \u201ccoins\u201d\u00a0(an online currency system) that allow them to watch individual episodes or packs of episodes.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough its titles are typical, the app has developed a niche fan base for producing stories that are considered higher quality and less lurid than their competitors\u2019. ReelShort, for instance, allows users to filter stories by tropes including stepsibling romances and \u201creverse harem\u201d plots, which are exactly what they sound like. CandyJar is more The CW than Jerry Springer. As one Reddit user observed of CandyJar\u2019s oeuvre a year ago, \u201cNo over the top slapping, drinks being thrown, bullying \u2026 acting was pretty good too.\u201d Though I am not allowed to watch filming of the steamy scene, the script describes a makeout session where \u201chands roam,\u201d and the script cuts from Harvey carrying Williams to the bed to a postcoital conversation scene. This isn\u2019t hard-core, maybe not even R-rated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile some viewers express disappointment that CandyJar love scenes tend to be less explicit than those available on rival apps, the company gets points for having stories with at least some emotional resonance. \u201cI\u00a0love\u00a0the check-tearing, drink-tossing slapfests, but sometimes I want more substance,\u201d says another fan on Reddit. \u201cI first saw Luna Graced<\/em> and Private Lessons <\/em>from outside the app. I knew I had to check the whole catalog.\u201d (Viewers also can watch CandyJar series in a horizontal cut on its live channel on Amazon Prime.)\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe app has broken out its own microdrama star \u2014 Joseph Purcell, the son of Prison Break<\/em> actor Dominic Purcell, who has proved to be a real draw for the platform. Another actor on a CandyJar project has crossed over to traditional television \u2014 Lexi Minetree, the star of Amazon Prime Video\u2019s upcoming Legally Blonde<\/em> prequel, Elle<\/em> \u2014 which is still a rare feat even as microdramas have proliferated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe format offers a tough but valuabletraining ground for actors, says Noah Fearnley, another performer who made the leap from starring in microdramas to landing bigger roles in traditional Hollywood. Fearnley, who says he once shot 55 microdramas in two years, recently played Michael Bergin on FX\u2019s Love Story<\/em>. On microdramas, \u201cIt\u2019s like you\u2019re thrown into this pool and you have to survive,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019re not really getting a chance to do anything else. You have 15 pages, they need to shoot it today. The budget\u2019s low, you have to get it done, and no matter what, they\u2019re going to shoot it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCompared to traditional film and television work, which unlike most microdramas is typically union scale, pay on these productions starts at the bottom of the barrel. An average starting rate for an unknown actor starring in a vertical is around $400 a day, while familiar faces might make about $750 a day and \u201csuperstars\u201d can make more than $1,000 a day, according to sources. As a point of comparison, SAG-AFTRA minimums<\/em> for principal performers on a theatrical low-budget project are $810 a day.<\/p>\n

\nFight Dirty<\/em> is a YA love story, a genre that CandyJar execs have learned performs particularly well on the platform. The company, which is owned by the romance- and fantasy-heavy self-publishing platform Inkitt, selects its stories from among high-performing books on Inkitt\u2019s paid reading app, Galatea. \u201cWe\u2019ve been surprised to find how successfully we\u2019ve been able to produce and market YA shows,\u201d CandyJar director of creative development Elana Zeltser says. \u201cWe\u2019ve come to realize that what we\u2019re offering people is sort of a fantasyfulfillment, and that often means reliving high school in a more high-stakes, compelling way than maybe you actually got to live it in your real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOn set, Barr focuses on small details to ramp up the escapist romance. She tells Harvey to lean in when he touches Williams\u2019 arm in a scene; she instructs the actress to \u201cbreathe him in\u201d while they talk. At one point, Barr stops everything to call for a bra to be hung from a doorknob that is visible in a scene. At another point, she guides her actress from behind the camera on how to look in a reaction shot: \u201cHungry, hungry, hungry, smile, smile!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tImbuing each scene with the frisson of romance or high drama is key because of the fierce competition that microdramas face from an array of other distractions that viewers could engage in on their personal devices. Notes CandyJar\u2019s in-house editor, Dan Wilken, \u201cIf we don\u2019t engage with someone who is on their phone and is one swipe away from a TikTok meme, then they\u2019re not going to watch our story.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMicrodrama companies tend to break through the noise by laying down a breadcrumb trail of decisions, twists and drama for their viewers. A paywall often pops up before a major choice, a turning point (like someone confessing their feelings to another) or a sex scene. Their dark arts seem to be working. On TikTok, some fans confess that they are addicted to these series. \u201cThe short stories that TikTok keeps putting in our faces, they have a hold on me,\u201d said one user. \u201cI have subscribed to six different ones so that you don\u2019t have to, and I have ran up a pretty penny. I have been trying to break up with these shows.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tThe pace of Fight Dirty<\/em>\u2019s production schedule would make any traditional feature producer\u2019s head spin. Like most microdramas, Fight Dirty<\/em> is non-union, and the production has five days to shoot a 49-minute series. Workdays are long, which isn\u2019t unusual for any film or TV production, but the pace is intense, with\u00a0 nine to 11 pages being shot in a single day. In total, CandyJar\u2019s entire microdrama production process, from the selection of the book set for adaptation to the release of the show on the app, typically takes about four months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the day\u2019s intimate scene has been shot and the set has reopened, I can see that the 12\u00bd-hour workday is beginning to take its toll on the cast and crew. Back in the bedroom, Barr appears to be giving more intense direction to her actors than she did in the morning. The script isn\u2019t conveying the stakes she wants in an argument scene, so she asks the actors to put even more emotion into their spat. \u201cI think it\u2019s because we\u2019re tired, we\u2019ve done so much today. \u2026 Let\u2019s dig deep,\u201d she tells them. \u201cThis should feel Romeo and Juliet <\/em>level.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe intensity of the schedule is one reason why some crewmembers come to swear off microdramas. But for others trying to make a living in entertainment in 2026, they\u2019re a crucial lifeline. CandyJar launched in 2023, the same year that joint actors and writers strikes ground Hollywood to a halt and left many production workers looking for work. The surge of microdrama production in L.A. arrived at just the right moment, right before shoot days in L.A. hit a historic low (not counting the early days\u00a0of the COVID-19 pandemic) in 2024 and then again in 2025.<\/p>\n

\nFight Dirty<\/em>\u2019s crew features refugees from the shrinking worlds of film and television. That includes CandyJar\u2019s director of physical production Lily Darragh Harty, who worked in health and safety on FX\u2019s Snowfall<\/em> and MGM\u2019s Creed III<\/em>. CandyJar editor Wilken once edited on shows from Ryan Murphy, Greg Berlanti and Dean Devlin. Fight Dirty<\/em> director of photography Matt Burke, who freelanced on music videos, short films and small features, says \u201cthe whole industry fell apart and microdramas kind of rescued us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nFight Dirty<\/em>\u2019s director, Barr, also got into microdramas because she needed a job. An NYU Tisch grad who transitioned early in her career from acting to directing, she has over the years racked up indie bona fides, participating in the Sundance Institute Episodic Lab and shooting a small feature (Sophie Jones<\/em>) that was released in 2021 by Oscilloscope. \u201cI think coming from independent film is crucial,\u201d she says. \u201cI know how to do 10 pages a day and have no money and have the hero house fall through and you have to pivot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBarr emphasizes that she\u2019s found meaning in the genre, which she believes harks back to the midbudget romantic comedies Hollywood doesn\u2019t make anymore. She believes her audience for YA microdramas\u00a0consists of millennials with a hankering for bygone stories like 10 Things I Hate About You<\/em>, She\u2019s the Man<\/em> and Romeo + Juliet <\/em>(if you hadn\u2019t noticed, <\/em>she really<\/em> likes that one). At the same time, she\u2019s eager to think through how to represent pleasure in verticals from a female point of view, which she says she didn\u2019t see much of as a movie fan growing up.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI want to show the guy going down on the girl. Safety and trust and consent is so hot. That communicating is so rich,\u201d she says. \u201cThose moments of almost kissing, yes, it\u2019s to create tension, but it\u2019s also a way to create emotional truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t***<\/p>\n

\n\tThe next day, there\u2019s a major vibe shift as the cast and crew prepare for one of the big set pieces of Fight Dirty<\/em>: an underground fight scene shot at an industrial warehouse in south L.A. that has been outfitted with a few walls of chain-link fence that will serve as the perimeter of the arena. An array of extras \u2014 mostly large, muscle-bound men with tattoos \u2014 begins to filter in.<\/p>\n

\n\tI watch as Harvey and his onscreen opponent, played by an actor with bulging bicepsnamed Haulston Mann, rehearse their moves with a stunt coordinator (female!)and fight instructor. Harvey, a performer from Oklahoma City with three to four years of experience under his belt, has acted in a Christmas movie with Martin Sheen and done some indie work. This is his first microdrama. \u201cThis was not something I was intentionally trying to break into, no,\u201d he says of the format. \u201cThe opportunity just came across my plate, and the way I approach all roles is the same, whether it\u2019s a microdrama, feature film, a network television show.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBarr starts by corralling her background actors behind the chain-link walls and coaching them on how to react to the fight. \u201cThere are no rules, there are no bounds \u2026 it\u2019s like Gladiator<\/em>,\u201d she tells them. Before long, two makeup artists materialize to spritz fake sweat on Harvey and Mann.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a romance microdrama, the scene \u2014 involving hair-pulling, a headbutt and Mann climbing the chain-link fence and roaring in an apparent testosterone-fueled display of dominance \u2014 is unexpectedly brutal. The cinematographer, Burke, circles around the actors with a handheld camera as they wrestle before Harvey puts Mann in a headlock. After Mann breaks out of it, he whales on Harvey until Harvey pins his arm and headbutts him. As they spar, Mann delivers the line, \u201cThat\u2019s my kind of party.\u201d Cheesy, yes, but it looks great on the monitors. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAt one point, the filming stops long enough for a makeup artist to rush over a coffee cup full of fake blood to Mann that he will spit in Harvey\u2019s face.<\/p>\n

\n\tOnce shots of the fight are in the bag, Barr goes back to the extras to get some coverage. Two background actors are told to get into a fake fight. One extra yells encouragement to the fighters, including, \u201cDrop that pussy!\u201d \u2014 a remark that prompts some eyebrow-raises at video village. Maybe a little too<\/em> authentic.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs microdramas have grown in popularity, Hollywood veterans have begun to flock and try their luck at the format. Former studio execs Susan Rovner, Jana Winograde and Lloyd Braun\u00a0are launching an app featuring horror, anime and romance verticals. Taye Diggs, after starring in his first microdrama with CandyJar, Off Limits and All Mine<\/em>, is creating his own platform, Microhouse Films. David Oyelowo and Nate Parker are producing verticals with their Mansa studio, and Issa Rae has begun producing them for TikTok and its PineDrama app. Fox Entertainment, Peacock, Google and Range Media Partners also are getting in the game. All of these firms may offer stiff competition to CandyJar as they aim to bring slightly higher-quality standards to the space. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBen Woods, an analyst at research firm MIDiA, sounds a note of skepticism about the rapid growth of the format. \u201cGoogle\u2019s push into microdramas gives the whole phenomenon a bubble feel to me,\u201d he wrote on LinkedIn. \u201cVertical storytelling is here to stay, but many of these microdrama apps will fail and consolidate.\u201d He wonders whether microdrama apps will become a victim of their own success, as the cost of production rises and competition for talent increases.<\/p>\n

\n\tFor a freelance Hollywood workforce that has just experienced the painful end of the Peak TV bubble, the prospect of another boom-and-bust cycle might be terrifying. But employment in the entertainment business has always been risky, and people drawn to it have always been dreamers. \u201cHop on the train while you can,\u201d says Harvey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt would take a larger word count than I have to appropriately capture just how cringe some microdramas can be. Then, while reporting this story, I shelled out for an unlimited CandyJar subscription ($19.99 a week \u2014 steep!), steeling myself for the experience. In spite of myself, I grew used to the format \u2014 its reliance on stereotypes and occasionally god-awful dialogue, for sure. But I found myself having fun.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Fight Dirty<\/em> dropped on the platform in May, I thought I knew what to expect. But the series surprised me. It was funnier than others I\u2019d seen. The acting, sharper. The premise of course was preposterous, intentionally if unrealistically lusty. I\u2019m not saying I\u2019m about to become a verticals evangelist, but I had a good time. I may even watch another. And another.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\nThis story appeared in the May 20 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Click here to subscribe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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