"Did you read, uh, that 'Portlandia' piece in the New Yorker?" →
Okay, recommending a New Yorker article is itself something the citizens of “Portlandia” would do, but if you’re a fan of the show (as I am) it’s a great read. Here’s one of the best parts:
Brownstein likes to say that “Portlandia” is an affectionate portrait of the city where she has lived for the past decade. The warmth is not in the writing, which leans toward the acerbic, but you can find it in other places, like the show’s dreamy look. In the opening-credit sequence, a chillwave instrumental plays over a montage of lush, tree-lined streets and saturated neon against an inky blue sky. It’s a little like Woody Allen’s “Manhattan”—the imagery evokes a world you’d like to live in, even if the people in it are hard to live with.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/01/02/120102fa_fact_talbot#ixzz1hksZjG1A
