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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2011 ABOUT ME Portlandia Season One comes to Blu-ray and DVD JEROME WETZEL IFC launched a new sketch comedy If I could do series last year, produced by Saturday anything I wanted Night Live 's Lorne Michaels , called to, I'd split my Portlandia . Now season one is time between available on Blu-ray and DVD. It will writing exciting novels and likely not surprise you to learn that it developing television stars a SNL cast member, Fred programs, and maybe writing Armisen , known for playing Barack comics that I don't draw, and Obama and Joy Behar, among others. watching and reviewing Fred is joined by musician Carrie television shows. Ah. Brownstein . The show is made up of a Someday Actors Nightmare series of shorts featuring odd Productions will be a characters, some stand alone, some reality...even if it's just a room recurring in multiple episodes. The in my house. :) jokes are much more understated than VIEW MY COMPLETE PROFILE SNL . The unique catch here is that all the bits take place in Portland, Oregon, and the show tries to capture the spirit of the city. Having never been READ MORE! there, I can't say if it does so accurately. I can say, I have enjoyed watching it. Alphabetical List By Series Title of All Reviews In the first two weeks alone, Fred and Carrie visit a free range chicken farm Jerome's Last TV Season populated by polygamists, an uber-feminist bookshop, engage in an adult game of Reviews hide and seek, write a theme song for Portland at the request of the mayor, and do a huge opening number for the premiere! And that's just the tip of the iceberg! The humor is unexpected, and fun. For instance, the sketch about writing the I MAKE VERY LITTLE WRITING THESE REVIEWS! song is back and forth random ideas between the pair. What makes it rise above IF YOU LIKE THEM, PLEASE average is that Carrie falls in love, accidentally kills the guy, and attends his DONATE ANY AMOUNT! funeral while giving her thoughts. It is never mentioned, but really elevated the

whole sketch. It's fresh, unique fun.

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The tone of Portlandia speaks to the outsider. Whether you are an outsider My TV Reviews @ Blog Critic yourself, or just enjoy a light hearted poking of such people, there is something Lexington TV Examiner for you in this series. Portland may or may not be made up of young people who My Reviews on TheTVKing "go there to retire," but the grunge and indie spirits of the 1990's thrive in the city, or at least this fictional version of such. Thus, Portlandia routinely goes into territories other comedies merely touch on, if that. SUBSCRIBE TO

Posts One may question whether or not to buy the Blu-ray version of Portlandia Season One . The price difference isn't big, so why not? True, owing to the low Comments budget of the series, not everything is as crystal clear as other Blu releases. The blacks are not particularly rich. But the creators do pay much attention to detail,

and you wouldn't want to miss that. Also, it isn't a cheap conversion, so why the AMAZON SEARCHBOX picture does go soft at times, there is a quality different over the DVD. As far as audio goes, it does lack the surround sound many Blu releases have, but he Search Amazon.com: mixing is done nicely, and with little action, many will not even notice. Keywords: Bonus features are sadly lacking on this set. The audio commentaries aren't particularly insightful, and do drag on a bit. Deleted and extended scenes, almost twenty minutes in length, are mainly a snooze fest. There are a couple of gems within, but it's not worth sitting through the others to get to them. A commencement speech given by Armisen is included, but he looks uncomfortable, and his humor is uneven. A couple of sketches of the former Armisen / Brownstein project, Thunderant , are pretty cool, though. And the

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