Photo via BRIC Sponsored By BRIC. BRIC is a nonprofit arts and media cultural organization that presents free and low-cost programming to the community. Created By BlankSlate There’s plenty of comedic fodder to be found in rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn, as ably demonstrated by Brooklynification, a scripted TV series that recently debuted from BRIC TV. A brownstone version of Portlandia, the six-episode first season pokes fun at mommy-and-me yoga, red-state transplants, real estate envy and the thirst for prewar molding, among other things. ________ Photo via BRIC The series is at its best when director Keith Miller (Welcome to Pine Hill) and co-creator Christopher Poindexter (72 Hours: A Brooklyn Love Story?) explore the conflict between Brooklyn natives and new arrivals: the real estate broker who snaps after an exasperating open house (“The Broker”); two couples pitted against each other in a brownstone bidding war (“The Bidders”); and an Ivy League-educated married couple’s conflict with a downstairs neighbor who rehearses his be-bop jazz quartet until late in… Read More
New web series ‘Brooklynification’ on BRIC TV is a brownstone version of ‘Portlandia’ : Brokelyn
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