In Bay State Blues, Mark Lewis gave us a real life story of real life people. Now, in Blue Collar Bastards, he takes some of those characters and brings us further into their lives. Scott Lewis is back as the leader of the group, Mike and Ryan Balas and Tony Ezzillo return as Oliver and Tony respectively. This is slightly different than Blues, in Bastards Lewis is giving us a look at the different lives of these three working class heroes.

The first five episodes are already up and running on YouTube and in them we, first, catch up with the guys on a job site, which finds newbie Oliver in a little trouble, but, as the episodes move forward, we're dragged further into the lives of these three guys who are just trying to make a living, and it's not all laughs and work.

What Lewis has really captured here are real guys, doing real work. If you're a guy and you've ever worked on a crew, whether it's construction or not, you'll soon see that Lewis has captured the working class man perfectly! Here are three guys who spend a lot of time together, but most conversations are fairly superficial. But that doesn't mean they're incapable of getting a bit deep, it's just that guys don't do that too much. Blue Collar Bastards feels just like real life unfolding in front of you, you can check out the first five episodes over at the LevRock Pictures YouTube page. I'm giving this series four out of four cigars, it's believable and it makes me look forward to future episodes...and interested in seeing what Mark Lewis might have planned next!