Are there ever been a show more focused than Portlandia? A gentle satire comedy performances (beginning tonight) life based on sustainability-minded, relaxed, focused on the arts in Portland, Oregon, for the IFC channel, which is essentially a comedy for those who see the IFC , people watching IFC (if you owned a TV) on IFC. It is the regional specificity, but also actually a parody of some things psychographic small cities, towns and university districts. And as a former resident of Ann Arbor and a stream of Park Slope, Brooklyn (New York is too expensive to be very relaxed but this is the best local approximation), I'm probably dead in his proof that for all show Bored To Death .
All that is to say, your mileage may vary, especially if you do not live in a half mile of a distribution center, the community supported agriculture, or in a city with a city bike-sharing. But while the first two episodes of Portlandia sticks and miss, usually the man hit his satire, as we say, quite close to home.
Portlandia SNL star Fred Armisen (a Lander Port in the off-season) and neighbor Carrie Brownstein, former guitarist for Sleater-Kinney. ("For when you do comedy, you think gang members are pioneering indie rock), The Portland, he imagines a city All lifestyles, idealists and people are working very hard to live simply, a place as one segment, he puts it, "where young people are retiring." It is a place for passive aggression is, perhaps, and a small footprint is the status. A little running in an episode Brownstein and Armisen writing a theme song for the city and lobbied the mayor, played by Kyle MacLachlan, who gets into office on a bicycle reasonable and holding meetings while sitting on a Pilates ball. (He calls them "I love my artists, I support them," and implores. "Do not make it sound like Seattle)
Show satirizes a lot of recognizable types: the young militant bike rights ("Cars, man Why ???"), a couple of artisans (above), whose credo is" Put the bird on it "and first two episodes of "creating more memorable, holders judgey! feminist independent bookstore. (Armisen plays its role in the resistance, which mutual Brownstein rest of the series.) But in Portland, fortunately, are not mocking or attitude (too many) shots cheap, which should be old soon. It 's a dream, a surreal atmosphere and friendly attitude of the city confused and hypocrisy of his characters', culture, style scam Portland Portland.
The satire does not mean, but he died: a brilliant sketch foodism the local restaurant trend to its logical conclusion, when a couple of guests, they must visit the farm to their dinner of chicken before ordering and find that in this case, the cult of the locavore is literally a cult. Somehow it feels like a better use of the kind that often Armisen SNL to him, and Brownstein is a very strong comedic actor who can pull the bit and the characters more so impassive.
Overall, as you can probably tell, this is a rather well-directed satire, but it's excels in IFC. Befits its subject cities, Portland is not for everyone, but it is an eccentric, a little 'surprising microbrew of the show.