Summary: Each episode's character-based shorts draw viewers into 'Portlandia,' the dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon. Season one inhabitants include: the owners of a feminist bookstore; a militant bike messenger; an artsy couple who attach cut-outs of birds to everything ('put a bird on it!'); an organic farmer who turns out to be a cult leader; and a couple negotiating a safe word to help...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORSummary: A hit sketch comedy series that is driven by 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Video Service Corp. 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORSummary: Includes all ten episodes of the second season of Portlandia, the hit sketch comedy series created and written by, and starring Fred Armisen of Saturday Night Live and Carrie Brownstein from the band Sleater-Kinney. This season, the two continue skewering the weird and wonderful residents of Portland, Oregon, as well as hipsters everywhere.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Video Services Corp. 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORSummary: Corner Gas focuses on the life (or lack thereof) of Brent Leroy, proprietor of a gas station that is the only stop for miles round and a hub of action on the Prairies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CTV 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CornerSummary: A young married couple moves back to their childhood village to start a family, but a surprise visit from the husband's brother turns their lives completely upside down. She can't get pregnant so the brother offers to help and the couple's marriage is tested.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRESummary: IFC's hit sketch comedy series, created, written by, and starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PORSummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: Contains a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in 'Portlandia,' where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Video Services Corp. 2011