From real-life friends Annie Clark and Carrie Brownstein comes the metafictional account of two creative forces banding together to make a documentary about St. Vincent's music, touring life, and on-stage persona. But they quickly discover unpredictable forces lurking within subject and filmmaker that threaten to derail the friendship, the project, and the duo's creative lives. From first-time filmmaker Bill Benz comes a densely woven, laugh-out-loud...

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 govern their love life.

The hit sketch comedy driven by a series of hilarious character-based shorts all of which take place in the creators' dreamy and absurd rendering of Portland, Oregon--where '90s culture reigns supreme and political correctness is all the rage.

A sketch-comedy series that parodies life in Portland, Oregon.

"February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president...