“Green Porno” Is Back On Sundance Channel

by Karl J. Paloucek

Tomorrow, one of television’s more bizarre series starts up again — Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno on Sundance Channel enters Season 2. If you don’t recall, Season 1 had Rossellini presenting herself in various amusing costumes emulating the peculiar mating habits of various insects, arachnoids and annelids. This time, she’s taking things underwater, exploring reproduction of whales, starfish, anglerfish and others.

Each episode lasts only a couple of minutes at best, but in those precious seconds, Rossellini does her best to succeed where biology class might have failed you. She’s not afraid to look utterly silly, and as a result, you can’t help but watch and absorb what it is she’s trying to tell you. (Really — if your high-school biology teacher had the budget for costumes like this, wouldn’t YOU have made sure to be there and attentive every day?)

Season 2’s focus on marine life stemmed out of Rossellini’s concern for the endangered underwater world. “Because of what I learned in doing research for this series,” she says, “I felt strongly that there needed to be an added environmental element to really inform people how delicate the futures of these creatures are.”

New episodes premiere on Sundance Channel starting tomorrow, or you can watch them now at the links provided below. At www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno you can also take a quiz on your “seduction style,” get your Green Porno name or just check out the behind-the-scenes hilarity from this clever and mildly disturbing microseries.

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 4

Episode 5

Episode 6

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Photo Credit: Sundance Channel