Season 7 presents a new and diverse series of comedy events where Fred starts a business. Kate and Sam learn the dangers of love over long distances. Drew and Andy plan to funeral Nina give Lance a massage chair. On the other hand, Tony and Candace are retiring Drew and Andy re-imagining ginger cookies. Mice look at the charm of squirrels. Dieters save a boy in a tiger cage at a zoo.
Season 7 already feels as if the sketch show is settling into dusty comedic patterns and taking the audience's affection for familiar personalities and recycled bits for granted.
While you could make the argument that a sketch show about how people in Portland are kinda quirky and hipster-y should have grown tiresome by now, that's just not the case.
Portlandia is funnier than it's been in a few years, perhaps because the focus has moved back to the sketch comedy that defined the show's early season.
