Season of television series
| Portlandia | |
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| Season 1 | |
 DVD cover | |
| Starring | |
| No. of episodes | 6 |
| Release | |
| Original network | IFC |
| Original release | January 21 (2011-01-21) – February 25, 2011 (2011-02-25) |
| Season chronology | |
| Next → Season 2 | |
| List of episodes | |
The first season of the television comedy Portlandia premiered on IFC in the United States from January 21 to February 25, 2011 for six episodes.
Cast
Main cast
- Fred Armisen as Fred, Peter, Candace , Jason
- Carrie Brownstein as Carrie, Nance, Toni, Melanie
Special guest cast
- Kyle MacLachlan as Mr. Mayor
Guest stars
- Steve Buscemi as Book Store Customer
- Jason Sudeikis as Aliki
- Aubrey Plaza as Book Store Customer and Beth
- Sam Adams as Mayor's Assistant
- Aimee Mann as herself
- Sarah McLachlan as herself
- Edie McClurg as Mayor's Secretary
- Kumail Nanjiani as Cell Phone Salesman
- Selma Blair as Frannie Walker
- Jenny Conlee, Colin Meloy, James Mercer and Corin Tucker as Echo Echo
- Gus Van Sant as himself
- Heather Graham as herself
- Nick Kroll as Daniel Prison
- Nick Kroll as Baseball Player (uncredited)
Episodes
Main article: List of Portlandia episodes| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | US viewers (millions) | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Farm" | Jonathan Krisel | Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Allison Silverman | January 21, 2011 (2011-01-21) | 0.263 | |
| Peter and Nance go to great lengths to make sure that their restaurant order (from Aliki's farm, played by Jason Sudeikis) is ethical and humane. A customer (played by Steve Buscemi) experiences the restroom policy of the feminist bookstore (based on In Other Words bookstore.) | |||||||
| 2 | 2 | "A Song for Portland" | Jonathan Krisel | Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Allison Silverman | January 28, 2011 (2011-01-28) | 0.186 | |
| Fred and Carrie meet the mayor of Portland (Kyle MacLachlan), who gives them a special assignment. Toni and Candace "help" a student (Aubrey Plaza) at the feminist bookstore. | |||||||
| 3 | 3 | "Aimee" | Jonathan Krisel | Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Allison Silverman | February 4, 2011 (2011-02-04) | 0.178 | |
| Spike decides "It's over". Fred and Carrie's domestic cleaner is Aimee Mann while Sarah McLachlan tends their garden. | |||||||
| 4 | 4 | "Mayor Is Missing" | Jonathan Krisel | Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Allison Silverman | February 11, 2011 (2011-02-11) | N/A | |
| When the mayor goes missing, Fred and Carrie begin a frantic search for him. | |||||||
| 5 | 5 | "Blunderbuss" | Jonathan Krisel | Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Allison Silverman | February 18, 2011 (2011-02-18) | N/A | |
| All of Portlandia is swept up in the excitement of a new music and film festival. | |||||||
| 6 | 6 | "Baseball" | Jonathan Krisel | Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein, Jonathan Krisel, Allison Silverman | February 25, 2011 (2011-02-25) | N/A | |
| The mayor turns to Fred and Carrie to help him put together a big-league baseball team. | |||||||
References
- "Brownstein And Armisen's Comedic Take On Portland". NPR. January 5, 2012.
- Turnquist, Kristi (February 3, 2011). "'Portlandia': Ratings report, and the scoop on that chicken farm". Oregon Live. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
- @RobOwenTV (February 3, 2011). "rt @Seidman IFC's PORTLANDIA = 186,000 viewers last Friday from 10:30-11p" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- @Seidman (February 8, 2011). "On Friday ONION NEWS NETWORK = 206K viewers, PORTLANDIA 178K FYI to @TravisYanan" (Tweet). Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2017 – via Twitter.
External links
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