Louie (Louis C.K.'s show on FX)

also the quick "i should buy a motorcycle" turnaround.

lol at the old lady "obama" throwaway joke

Would be unsurprised to see a completely different ex-wife in a later episode.

yeah i have no doubts about that.

the bit after the credits was pretty amazing, i've definitely been there

this maybe speaks to my emotional immaturity more than the quality of the ep but i thought the relationship stuff in this was really good, some sense of self-awareness and communication having to be dragged out of louie. & i am maybe overreading but i thought the clinton/gore sign in his apt was interesting too. he has this sorta self-effacing sense of what his character should be in the programme, some of his laziness, like when he gets in a fight with the right leaning comic in s1. it seemed like a prominent thing in support of him being just vaguely mired in the '90s.

the total disregard for continuity here is really neat and unlike anything I've ever seen on TV before; like, how the hell did Louie decide on that actress to play his ex-wife?

I mean I'm guessing she's just a great person for the part, but still, I can't even imagine another show that would just do that

Maybe my expectations were raised too high, but I was pretty underwhelmed by the premiere episode. Also, enough with the stereotype "I-write-well-for-women" Jewish super-smart castrating bitch who happens to be right character...we get it, you're coming off well, Louis, can we just get the old girlfriend back from wherever she flew off to? (and I loved season one but season two not so much)

(and I loved season one but season two not so much)

does not compute

oh wait, was season two with pamela adlon? all i'm saying is she was the saving grace of that season for me...sorry!

Feels like this show is about to get over-analyzed episode by episode versus praised as a whole (see: Slate).

the car!

meh. seems like the show has already hit the late Seinfeld stage. but i look forward to being totally wrong!

Eazy's right - I feel like this is the new Arrested Development and will be analyzed as such, but the writing isn't really that rock-solid; it's probably of a better quality, as a whole, but I feel like Louie is designed to be sort of hit-and-miss.

I don't really buy that this was a "miss". I know MZS was saying that this season is a bit slow getting going but it really takes off about 5 eps in if that gives comfort to the people who didn't care for this. I'm happy to enjoy the rhythms of the show, really, and I love his attention to detail and the small but honest things like him lying on the couch there at the end.

Rad. I love the "is this after midnight?" bit.

My favorite was that green sign with the line through it, "okay, what does this mean? It's not red, so it can't be bad, right?"

this was a good ep
also, GABY HOFFMAN
my wife was like...she lookin OLD
im like she's just keeping it real

*jizzes @ liveblog*

I'm happy enough to be back in Louie world even if this wasn't the best episode (definitely laughed hardest at old lady obama joke)

it's just got such a different vibe to anything else on tv

loved motorcycle shop dude too

actually the standup bit was pretty great also. Good episode

Feels like this show is about to get over-analyzed episode by episode versus praised as a whole (see: Slate).

― Odd Spice (Eazy), Friday, June 29, 2012 11:53 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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i never thought i'd be one of those people that thought television was bad, but it's clearly turning everyone autistic

no dude that's the internet, TV is just one of the domains of inquiry

audience + pop culture = lists

I liked the episode, it was fun. Loved the way he nodded to the carefree euro 'HAY I'M RIDING A MOTORCYCLE AROUND TOWN' .while he's looking like the most awkward dude ever riding a motorcycle.
And I got a kick out of the swarm of motorcycle stunt dudes coming from out of nowhere.

I dunno, I thought the girlfriend stuff was a funny play on 'ugh Louis you pathetic shlub'...ie him using her expectations of his loserness to get pretty much all the outcomes he wanted; breaking up with her, some comfort when he's hurt, and for her to leave once he got fed.

It wasn't omg awesome or anything, kinda weirdly disjointed with the vignettes but still fun

'HAY I'M RIDING A MOTORCYCLE AROUND TOWN' .while he's looking like the most awkward dude ever riding a motorcycle.

Yep, he really knocked that "motorbikes are cool" thing right on the head. I was able to turn to my husband and say "that'd be you if I let you buy a motorbike."

lol

meh. seems like the show has already hit the late Seinfeld stage. but i look forward to being totally wrong!

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 29 June 2012 17:31 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ some bullshit, gonna annoyingly c&p this after each forthcoming rad episode

have fun with that, schlump!

gaby hoffman is TOO YOUNG for louis ck

have fun with that, schlump!

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 30 June 2012 19:28 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha ha. i just think that part of this show's charm is its range & variety, which this ep did some work in expanding - the relationship dynamics thing, which afaict was a pretty novel depiction of shitty relationship miscommunication - & so naysaying on account of its maybe-failure as a comic exercise (like how seinfeld would suck if it wasn't funny) seems shortsighted. but i am a zealous defender of the show here, so.

Basically everyone who's seen the first 5 seems to agree that the first is the least exciting. Which has me very stoked indeed.

it felt very much like an odds and ends episode, same as the halloween thing from last season but much better. He says he has at least one multi part episode, so i don't mind him fucking around with a series of short gags about a fucked up day.
Looking forward to the maria bamford arc!

Bamford is on, hot shit! I can totally imagine that the eps will get worlds better from here on out.

The guest list on this season is pretty nuts. I'll shut up in case anyone would prefer to be surprised.

I would.

yeah excited for Bamford

IMO this show is more depressing and crushing than funny

same thing, really.

"something something manhole cover" —Mel Brooks

"Basically everyone who's seen the first 5 seems to agree that the first is the least exciting. Which has me very stoked indeed."

cosign, not the best episode ever but certainly good tv. the car getting mashed. the biker gang. the parking signs. the breakup. the standup at the beginning. all pretty awesome! season 2 was hit and miss, but with a ratio of about 5 hits to one miss. i vote that dude totally gets a pass on the misses though cause he, like, *reaches*, ya know? if he wasn't brave enough to do the suicidal friend anti-laughfest episode, would he have had the balls to bring subway/pamela to the networks either?

thought that first ep was *amazing* except for the standup bit which was a bit average. watched it with my girl after we'd had a little tiff and were being a bit quiet with each other. at the end of the ep everything was okay again. thanks mr szekely!

"Louis is the funniest man in America," says his longtime friend Chris Rock. "Everything's clicking. I'm sure Prince felt this way when he did Purple Rain."

last episode was... darling nikki? we still got an i would die 4 u, when doves cry, and beautiful ones coming i reckon

not to mention his sign o the times coming up in a season or 2

which means in five years or so we'll get "Batdance"