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

I thought I remembered him saying he wasn't thrilled with the last season, that he was going too fast and wanted to take a lot of time to rejigger the show

If the 2nd season didn't do it for you it's probably not gonna work at all going forward.

I can't recall which epsiodes were in which season, but it's all been of a consistently high quality as far as I'm concerned.

the 3 "Late Show" eps were my favorites yet

first ep was p great, second one w the rich model sort of petered out

Yeah, I feel like the same types of gags are circulating over and over--quirky weird authority figure (Lynch/Grodin), sluts-and-nuts scoring-above-my-level, etc....

I felt that way about the rich model storyline as it was unfolding, but the resolution and scene with the lawyer were pretty hilarious. Loved Seinfeld being an utter dick to Louie as well.

Has he been in it before? Can't remember.

yeah. Seinfeld was p great

Yeah not a ton of laughs in these first two. Scenes with the kids are great (loved the "carry my backpack" bit), but the manic pixie model stuff was kinda pointless, and not really funny. Maybe he should REALLY embrace the zero continuity aspect of the show and destroy his life in a different way for each episode...

he should die at the end of every episode

/become destitute/end up in a Turkish prison etc. etc.

ether drift louie

I did like some of the touches in this one...at the cafe with Tom Papa with all the zombie-like teenagers on their phones in the background - it would seem very cliche and kinda dumb if he focused on it more, but as a background detail it was neat.

i love how rather than getting up in arms about it, louis kindly helped to herd the teenager absorbed in his cell phone around his chair so he would not hurt himself. it's like he takes their zombie-ness as a given, and just works with it.

This last one, ep 2 The Benefit, is some masterful shit. I loved the ending.

idk I was bored as shit by that episode

but "chickens are dumb"

http://i.imgur.com/IFSUyiJ.png

UUUGHHNNN this show is so fucking good

Did not like the rich model episode. Have not seen the "fat girl" one that Lefsetz is raving about as being brilliant, in his email/blog thing.

"fat girl" one is less than brilliant but its good, the diffused end particularly

Opinion seems to be split on last night's. Some people are all "yes, Louie, yes!" and others are all "thanks, white MAN for hijacking a woman's platform you jerkface!"

I haven't watched it, but I already know both sides have a point.

i didn't like that one mostly b/c i don't like when louis works in character monologues to get across a moral/ideological/cultural point. it always feels super clumsy to me whether or not i agree with the content.

Like to think Louie was throwing some material out to give the thinkpieceratti something to do before season finales started coming thick and fast.

thought the second elevator episode was more entertaining actually. was the russian girl from Stranger Than Paradise?

oh wow!, it was

liked both of these. Vanessa's extended rant/monologue was good and definitely novel otoh it seemed to go on forever. Elevator bit was great. Subway bit was also great. That was yet another actress as his ex-wife right? Funny that he's carrying on the (unacknowledged) interracial conceit. Would be funny if he brought back Vanessa for another episode but had her played by a skinny actress.

It was the same actress...

huh for some reason I thought someone else played her in that episode where he went to Miami

didn't enjoy being lectured by a fat chick

i think several women have played his ex-wife (over the course of the whole show) but the same woman has been playing her for a while.

naw

"didn't enjoy being lectured by a fat chick"

Am I missing out on something here? or are you just a pathetic little prick?

The former

I thought both were really good

I like that he's comfortable pairing two discrete ideas into a single episode, it's like an Animaniacs cartoon or something

otoh it seemed to go on forever.

This was definitely by design - the single take, the floating camera really situates you in Louie's discomfiture

Also when she nearly breaks the fourth wall, when she goes "imagine somebody over there saw us two right now" and points at the camera

I loved that during the whole thing a constant stream of a hundred joggers is passing by.

Yes both in the scene by the water and in the subway I was very conscious of the other people around and the camera, which seemed to pan nimbly at moments when the extras could have been in the sh. I guess those were extras? Or the general public?

He's a good director, the subway scene was actually very tense.

Yeah also losing your child in public is I think every parents nightmare but I don't know if it's treated a lot in media

Like the only comparison I have is minority report

heavy rain

Yeah also losing your child in public is I think every parents nightmare but I don't know if it's treated a lot in media

this reminded me of the scene in that Jeff Bridges country-singer movie where he stops into a bar for a drink and his granddaughter (?) wanders away.

did appreciate the disembodied hand on her shoulder/voice asking her if she's lost

Yeah also losing your child in public is I think every parents nightmare but I don't know if it's treated a lot in media

Like the only comparison I have is minority report

― 龜, Thursday, May 15, 2014 8:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this scene made me so anxious, yikes

and i don't even have a kid

heavy rain

― Mordy, Friday, May 16, 2014 2:06 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

Plot device was very effectively deployed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og

wtf is that

Here's the scene Mordy was talking about fwiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfSGyiqis1c

creepy as f

i don't understand; is some gamer "playing" that character?

i haven't played a video game in 15 years, I have no idea what is happening there.