Portland, OR

Finishing up this week’s four-part series on Portland’s popular and weird movie rentals, I’d like to address three final “movies that Portland dwellers rent more than other “typical” NetFlix members.”

First we have Slings & Arrows: Season 1: Using a play on Shakespeare’s already famous words, this television show is built upon the drama that can occur in a theater town. “In the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to assume the artistic directorship after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When Geoffrey arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, and a scheming general manager, he manages to stage a remarkable production of Hamlet — the play that drove him mad.

Dead Like Me: Season 2 - you all should know how I feel about Dead Like Me and if you missed the very first post where I talked about it, it’s a true love of mine. The every-day cynicism just kills me each time I watch it! This TV show is a comedy-drama starring Ellen Muth and Mandy Patinkin. They, along with other cast members, act as grim reapers in our nearby town of Seattle, Washington. Unforunately, it was cancelled at this season. Sad face!

The last DVD on Portland’s list of excessive rentals is The Amazing Screw-On Head is an animated Sci-Fi series done by the same producer as Dead Like Me. I’m not a fan of animated series, so I doubt I’d like it, even though it is made by one of my favorite television producers!

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