Yet another TV show I’ve been meaning watch but haven’t gotten around to is Portlandia. I have an inescapable connection to that town as I went to college there when it was still grungy, depressing and considered Seattle’s smelly younger brother, but left before it was allegedly invaded by freegan hipsters.
Interesting interpretation of Mad Men the more this reluctant Gen-Xer ponders it. An ABC blog post notes that Don Draper is part of the “Silent Generation” — that came after the “Greatest Generation” that fought in World War II / saved the world and all that, yet came before the Baby Boomer generation all too familiar with their hippies and saving the world through sex, drugs, and rock and roll.
Too cool. I’m sure Don Draper would use an iPhone had they existed back in the day, but these images also suggest Jon Hamm as a candidate to portray Steve Jobs in the upcoming movie?
I speculated earlier that one of the few things Netflix could do to reverse its fleeing subscribers and dropping stock price is announce some big content deals. Well, here’s one that may count: new, first-run Arrested Development episodes airing exclusively on Netflix Watch Instantly come 2013.