Portlandia is IFC's hit sketch comedy series created, written by, and starring Fred Armisen (SNL) and Carrie Brownstein (WILD FLAG, Sleater-Kinney vocalist/guitarist). The show is driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in "Portlandia," the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon where 90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
Product details
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer
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No
MPAA rating
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Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions
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0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
Item model number
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BRO1837
Media Format
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Multiple Formats, Color, NTSC
Run time
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2 hours and 12 minutes
Release date
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December 6, 2011
Actors
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Aimee Mann, Steve Buscemi, Selma Blair, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein
Language
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Unqualified (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
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See my reviews of Seasons 2 and 3. I rave. I rant. This stuff is truly fresh and potently hilarious. Portlandia ... the "place where the young go to retire". The place where original, captivating, outlandish humor is being born. Incredibly emotive characters. Carrie and Fred are SO adept at portraying such a wide range of characters. Humor that is both simultaneously gentle, but telling. Plots that are ridiculous, surreal, but somehow everyday. Themes that are incongruous, yet unexpectantly interwoven. Gestures that are raucous, then sweet. No sexual, racial, personality type is exempt as a target; yet all portrayals are loving, tolerant and insightful. Great editing and direction - filled with tasty little sound effects and music bites, perfect segues and surprising trajectories. It is so wonderful to see a new form of humor developing that does not depend on appeals to stupidity, obscenity, crude profiling, predictable pratfalls, ugly subtexts or grotesque mugging to land a laugh. This humor is human in all its dimensions and I pray that it stays this way. There is a surfeit of offensive, obnoxious frat-boy scatology and car-crashing explosions out there posing as being somehow "funny", but it really is just gross and pathetic. I hope audiences have had enough of this crap and start to gravitate back towards wit and cleverness. For me, Portlandia rules!
I've been hooked on this from the first episode and wait impatiently for my fix every week. Although I'm bummed that 30 Rock is now over, I take comfort in knowing that my need for quirky comedy will be met for a while to come!
My daughter and her fiancee love this program. I have never seen it, so I don't even know if it is still on. They really liked the fact they could see their favorite show any time they wanted to view it.
I haven't been to Portland yet, but I did hang out in Seattle and Vancouver in Summer 2010. I can say it was interesting. The people were nice, but def. in their uber hipster cloud. The northwest is a weird cool place and I wouldn't live there, but everyone should visit. This series with Carrie and Fred is funny not crazy laugh out loud Chappelle show funny, but cute Kids in the Hall type of funny. Just like the Kids showcased the lovely city of Toronto, Carrie and Fred are taking it further by making Portland the main character. I watched all the episodes last night and it was pretty good...the only weird thing was that it reminded me of this indie rock poser guy I knew in college who eventually moved to Portland! He probably doesn't even get the irony.
Outstanding in every way. If you even just like Portlandia, get it. You won't be disappointed. This is where it all began and is really, in many ways, the best season they've done.
So happy to have found a tv show I can thoroughly enjoy from start to finish. I actually bought this for my mum, she was pleasantly surprised and said she was laughing the whole time. Wonderful skits, thank you!
laugh? I think a little bit of wee came out I was laughing so hard. You know, so hard I had a big O shaped mouth with no sound. why has this never screened in the UK??????? You'll have to use a multi region DVD player though. quirky and very knowing. if you like Flight of the Conchords get this.