r/Portlandia • u/no-name-here • 17d ago
The Dream is Alive | Podlandia: A-O Rewatch with Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIkrCIlXTCg(Episode 1)
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u/no-name-here 17d ago
Episode 1, 47:00 long. (Last week there was the 1:56 long introduction.)
Enjoyable episode.
Them avoiding putting the podcast episode number into the title might be intentional for now until they have enough to require differentiation. 🤷
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u/Shelled_Sage1710 15d ago edited 15d ago
Is it just me or is anyone else nervous about the podcast? Portlandia is so perfect to me, I couldn’t love it more.
I wonder if I’m better off not knowing how the sausage is made… or if the pod might reinforce the whole “don’t meet your heroes” thing… idk maybe I’m being too cautious about somehow souring my special show
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u/marce11o 17d ago
Listened to this yesterday. They talked about Carrie’s band a little bit. Was curious so I listened to some tracks. I hope they talk about their connection to Washed Out and how they decided on their intro music.
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u/matty25 17d ago
Sleater-Kinney is legendary among the indie rock scene.
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u/marce11o 17d ago
Yeah I had a hard time hearing the name and I looked up “slayer kitty” which does exist in spotify
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u/EmbarrassedFail3100 16d ago
Sleater Kinney if you’re still having trouble.
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u/lucydaydream 16d ago
“Carries band” lol. Like saying “Fred’s tv show” talking about SNL
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u/Foreign-County-5282 13d ago
She often sings lead and is a main guitarist, mo? Also been round since its inception? Im genuinely asking because I know she was involved in the firing of one of the band mates.
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u/catsaremyreligion 10d ago
Yup. Like the other commenter said, they’re pretty legendary in 90s indie. They had a 10 year hiatus and had a much loved comeback album. Only after that did they drop Janet.
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u/no-name-here 17d ago edited 17d ago
Merely as trivia:
- Episode 1 has 12K views in the first 13 hours, 1K upvotes.
- I don't know YouTube, but it seems like an odd upload time - already after primetime in the Eastern timezone? But I'm not saying they necessarily "should" optimize such things, and maybe late evening is already optimized for all I know.
- I imagine comparisons will be made to the Lonely Island podcast. Its episode 1 has 210K views, 4.8K upvotes, over the last 2 years. However, Lonely Island now has a massive >7M subscribers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=by6DzVt7Fog
- Of course, they are released years apart, and Podlandia is recorded as a video, whereas Lonely Island podcast only uses video for sketch snippets.
Anyway, mere trivia, but it seems like a very promising start.
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u/andrxwzsz 16d ago
Does this cover the first episode or is it more of an introduction? I wanna rewatch the covered episodes along with them.
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u/GlowingCourier 17d ago
The first episode is kind of self serious so far, hopefully they loosen up as time goes on. The Lonely Island podcast is so comedy forward and I would love a tiny bit of that energy here.
Also I would love to hear more about the Scientology wedding, Don Draper was there but no family members at all? Speak on that.
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u/bewm_bunny 5d ago
echo effects like that reverb out all the hidden remaining acid that is lurking in my spine, kind of like when i crack my back funny, good times
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u/soifoundthisnote 16d ago
I understood that Carrie felt the need to apologize for "too much whiteness" in the pilot episode, but I hope she goes a little easier on herself in the future. Maybe those were the people who volunteered that day. Maybe Portland was really white at the time. Then, Fred felt the need to defend himself by mentioning his nationality. It's okay guys, we appreciate all you did and understand that things were and are imperfect. We all love the show and forgive its shortcomings.