Pablo Torre

120 million subscribers at the time.

And that's how Portlandia became a hit because people would actually watch it on Netflix.

By the time we aired, they had switched their deal to Hulu and IFC and AMC decided we're gonna make our last stand as a cable TV channel.

We're gonna only release it once a week on our IFC channel.

which i don't know nobody saw it and i literally went in and begged them weekly like please it's a good show we might even get some nominations can you please let people see it and we just went down with that cable channel ship

And then ever since then, you know, it's kind of been buried on Hulu.

And we were just, I didn't even know.

My social media lady called me and said, you know, you're getting released on Netflix this week.

I'm like, I am?

Christmas came early for me.

the first one we made eight episodes in like three weeks and then we got that's crazy it was absolutely insane i've never worked like that i the first season i only memorized because we had all eight written i had a time because we had to like financially we had to have it completely down to a science what locations we were going to be at there was no margin for error

And I only had memorized like two thirds of it.

And man, did I pay for that.

I had to spend every waking hour on the weekends memorizing what I didn't know.

Then we made sure to write them so that I had them two or three months ahead of time.

I can't tell you how insane this is in the television world.

Nobody does this.

So that I could spend three months memorizing it like a 120 page play.

Like I knew the entire season was in my head so that whatever we shot that day, I was ready with it.

And I think by the end they like took pity on us and we had like five weeks to shoot eight episodes.