{"id":7421,"date":"2012-04-06T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T01:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7421"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:34:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:34:19","slug":"portlandia-and-other-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7421","title":{"rendered":"Portlandia and other television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Portlandia<\/em> season 1 (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Carrie Brownstein is funny! Who knew? Wonderful show, as long as it doesn&#8217;t interfere with Wild Flag.  Highlights: anything involving mayor Kyle MacLachlan or the women&#8217;s bookstore (customers include Steve Buscemi, Aubrey Plaza and Heather Graham), housekeeper Aimee Mann and the opening theme song.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/portlandia.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Delocated<\/em> season 1 (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Was prompted to watch this after hearing a Hanukkah recording in which Jon Glaser sings through a flat voice modulator.  I didn&#8217;t get it.  So now I do.  Kinda low-key show with a single season-long story (not a sketch show) in which Jon and family are in witness protection and starring in a reality show about it.  Eugene Mirman is assigned to find and murder Jon Glaser, and ends up with a reality show of his own.  Mirman only manages to kill Paul Rudd in the first episode, Michael Shannon in the last, and some bystanders in between. Glaser&#8217;s relationship with his bodyguard Kevin Dorff seems more important to him than his own wife, so the marriage doesn&#8217;t last, but he meets a new girl when he opens a business where people can pay to smash things with a bat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Steve Albini cameo:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/delocated1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Important Things With Demetri Martin<\/em> season 1 (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Things: timing, power, brains, chairs, safety, coolness, games.<br \/>\nVery simple-looking, but smart and hilarious show.<br \/>\nJon Benjamin is a regular.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image12\/importantthings.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>30 Rock<\/em> season 5 (2010-11)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>KableTown buys the network, Baldwin has a baby with Elizabeth Banks, Tina breaks up with Matt Damon, Kenneth leaves then returns, Tracy leaves then returns (and his wife gets a reality show), Jenna is in love with cross-dressing Will Forte, Will Arnett returns as Baldwin&#8217;s nemesis and Margaret Cho plays Kim Jong-Il.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t as good as season 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portlandia season 1 (2011) Carrie Brownstein is funny! Who knew? Wonderful show, as long as it doesn&#8217;t interfere with Wild Flag. Highlights: anything involving mayor Kyle MacLachlan or the women&#8217;s bookstore (customers include Steve Buscemi, Aubrey Plaza and Heather Graham), housekeeper Aimee Mann and the opening theme song. Delocated season 1 (2009) Was prompted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,52],"class_list":["post-7421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}