Portlandia (new comedy series on IFC)

I liked the history of the women's bookstore episode

this show is hit or miss tho (and v repetitive)

Bookstore episode was like a slow victory lap of a previously amusing sketch.

it is quite painful at times. the bookstore for me has always been a bit of a one-note, mildly funny at best scenario. did not benefit from them fleshing out their backstory in a full-length episode.

smugness is def a feeling you get from the show, or complacency at least. they seem very pleased by the characters and situations they've made and will just persist with them interminably and aimlessly. also i increasingly find armisen just detestable, and while brownstein is much less obnoxious, i just don't find her a very compelling comedic performer.

I liked the episode where Spike proposed marriage too

may have been entirely due to remarkable similarity between Justin Long and Carrie Brownstein in a mustache tho

Armisen in a wig is not as funny as they think it is.

Are you having a laugh?
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Is he having a laugh?
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its still reasonably funny imo but so much of it is just structure and editing

rapid-fire, back and forth cut conversations, i mean

i think that means the joeks don't have to be as good and it still sorta works

ok the feminism episode had some good lulz

I liked the Tiny House episode. Some well done physical comedy and that escrow VHS was great.

Documentary Now! is pretty funny.

Get that Old Navy money. Do what you have to do in this world.

Carrie did an American Express commercial a little while back too iirc.

Teenage me would've been bummed, but 30 something me would probably do the same thing.

Would 30 something you already have, like, enough money from their entertainment career?

Rolling in all those Wild Flag airplay royalties.

Carrie & Mary Timony did some Price line ads w/Shatner back in the day: http://www.mtv.com/news/620299/helium-sleater-kinney-members-do-commercials/

this has worked the best as a broad city substitute

Season 7 premiere tonight, any watching?

*anyone

So good to see Abbi Jacobson on this while waiting for Broad City.

Steve Buscemi's mannerisms are very Alan Alda in his apperances.

Is there a thread for Documentary Now?

I just started watching this after years of going "eh I think I will hate this"; I'm in season 3 now and I think it's overall one of the funniest shows I've ever watched

curious what yr favorites are, mine is definitely they're gender-switched couple (Carrie in a mustache and muscle-t etc)

their

I am listening to the cacao sketch right now actually, lol

I love Nance and Peter the most, oddly

Brunch Village is a masterwork

Dave and Kath are pretty great too

the milk council bits are also amazing

Oh yeah. I think I dropped it after season 2 and then picked it back up after it was completed and on netflix. It's really great. That one song "The Best Part is Going Home" (after seeing a band) has been a huge help in making me feel better about not going to shows anymore.

otm about Nance and Peter. Oddly I skip all the gender switch couple bits. I think Carrie's voice freaks me out too much.

Watched part of the 30 ROCK infomercial for NBCUniversal. More of their Dig Our Privileged World cut-rate comedy. I want to see a PORTLANDIA reunion deal with that city's police state a la Haskell Wexler's MEDIUM COOL. How funny is a pepper-sprayed Fred Armisen? pic.twitter.com/AlE2lBAWyg

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) July 18, 2020

Morbz on some midsummer night's dream shit with this Dennis Perrin infatuation

you guys can stick with Tom Cruise i guess

My assumption is that Dr Morbius follows exactly three people on Twitter: 1) Dennis Perrin, 2) Doug Henwood, and 3) Alex Pareene.

i'm tempted to say even the worst episodes of 30 rock are funnier than dennis perrin but in all fairness the weather app on my phone is also funnier than dennis perrin

i'm not on Twitter

I also look at many film crix and sportswriters on it however

also the rock in the backyard is funnier than ilx

Portlandia already did a "let's take over the police department" skit and it was ridiculous and sort of bad, mostly because it existed in the extremely White sphere of "cops just answer our noise complaints, right" and ended up taking the cops' side. (On the plus side, the uniforms Fred and Carrie created to make the police more relatable to the community were pretty funny, as was the fashion show where they presented them to an increasingly incredulous chief of police.)

Most of the times that the show involves police officers, they're seen as largely benign government agents patiently dealing with increasingly ridiculous White/White-passing people, which glosses over the problems endemic to the modern police force. It's still usually funny, thought; the skit I reference above was an outlier.