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

I liked Tarese (cashier ep) a lot because there was this contrast between his romantic oer-side-of-the-tracks romantic fantasy and the reality of actually attempting the courtship.

I don't think he should even attempt to write dialogue for female characters

― iatee, Wednesday, 25 January 2012 18:34 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

simon is otm here:
characters who aren't "Louie" are generally there for him to react to, be they male or female.

i feel like a broad judgement on female characters on the show fails because of pamela adlon, & because of his kids!, all of whom are strong enough to stop it being about specifically female characters but maybe peripheral characters. tbh the other female characters, to whom he's reacting, have usually been characters inserted to direct the plot - so it's the pta woman he's going to sleep with, or someone he has to get nervous before going to meet, etc. there's also that kind of half-surreal quality to women's dialogue in the show - the estate agent, the pta woman, the woman who picks him up after a show in her car in times square - like they emphasise louie's emotional immaturity or lack of ease by seeming to operate in a different register to him - more straightforward, or formal, or professional or w/e. so again it's about him, how he can't have a conversation with a cheerleader.

about the creepiness of his fantasies, btw, i remember a friend, who came down on the side of finding him sorta suspicious, saying she cracked up when a scene ended with him googling an actress when he was about to jack off; i don't have the requisite knowledge of '70s american tv actors to know who it was, but i think an actress from mash?, maybe? like it would be the perfect outdated, semi-nostalgic crutch for him to resort to fantasising about.

Yup, it was Loretta Swit.

SO HARSH!

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyd3ssz8Yd1qzraqfo1_500.png

classic example of missing the point

like that fatality was pretty fucking clearly not played for laughs

I laughed but ymmv apparently

his kids would be the major exception to any generalizing about weakness of female characters on the show, of course. they're great. pamela adlon's character is also great, but i think that's largely her excellent performance. i could go into more detail here but whatever. i am inclined not to care too much about this generally because again, the weakness of female characters seems like a subset of the general weakness of non-Louie characters and not really the point of the show. also because at least the Louie character/Louis C.K. himself seems like he genuinely likes women, which is more than i can say for many male protagonists of tv shows.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2012/01/louis-ck-is-creating-a-sitcom-for-cbs.html

*concerned look*

My only concern is that CBS would somehow fuck it up. But given Louis' willingness to walk away from his FX deal, it doesn't seem likely that he'd let CBS mess with the show too much.

i wonder if he's producing or what. like it's hard to see how it fits. his general attitude toward sitcoms is p promising though - that they should be individualistic & not so much writers-room joke strings &c

just trying to imagine the poker game discussion of the word faggot on CBS and failing.

I coulda used an fx version without that discussion

i wonder if he's producing or what.

According to this, he's an executive producer.

Because apparently doing every single job on 6.5 hrs of Tv a year isn't enough? I'm less concerned about CBS fucking up as I am about it getting in the way of Louie in some way.

But given Louis' willingness to walk away from his FX deal

wait what?

When he made his proposal to FX, he basically said to them, "If you don't meet these conditions, I'm not doing the show."

i dont find this show very funny outside of the standup segments, and i cant really get past that. i guess everyone else is able to cut loose and enjoy it for the oddity that it is, but it just doesnt do much for me. there are definitely times where i appreciate the things it does that no other show would even attempt - like the "who are you" singalong in the racist grandma ep - and there's a lot of those moments to be sure, buuuut, i dunno. ive only seen a few of the s2 eps, so i need to see the whole thing i suppose. the one where he gives pam adlon a big speech about his real feelings for her really... did not work for me.

that was my favorite episode!

if you approach this show expecting laffs then you are doing it wrong imo

well i certainly dont EXPECT laughs from it anymore, but i dont find the weird half hour dramedy thingie that it is particularly compelling either.

yeah, it's really more of an experiment than a comedy and i love it for that

Hungry 4 ass, you need to watch season 1! so much better than season 2

i watched most of s1! i think i missed 2 or 3 eps

nuh uh xp
but yeah watch it if you haven't!, obv. i was thinking 'only some of s2, all of s1'

the one where he gives pam adlon a big speech about his real feelings for her really... did not work for me.

this was only the realest shit he ever wrote

ha ha, so otm

that would speak poorly for his standup if it was true! (its not)

love both but s2 >>>>> s1 imo

I liked season 1 was better. I was sort of bored of it by the time I finished season 2. I like the show but I generally prefer his standup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji1XWAaZekQ

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haha 'you're so beautiful to me. shut up!' don't know why the scene is flipped horizontally tho.

To trick the YouTube copyright robots

TV: Newswire: Louis C.K.'s CBS sitcom will now star Ashley Tisdale

http://media.avclub.com/images/articles/article/69/69373/DunhameCK_jpg_300x1000_q85.jpg

sad trombone

heh, that's the tiny furniture chick right?

her HBO show Girls looks like it might not be as bad as Tiny Furniture

Tiny Furniture was dope, so I will def watch Girls.

I wonder if Chris Eigeman is gonna be a regular or just a guy who pops up in one ep. Saw him in the trailer.

If ILX does a most hated poll, I'm voting Tiny Furniture

I'm voting milo z jk lol

i liked tiny furniture

let's please not sully Louie's thread with Tiny Furniture handwringing

i mean, once Morbs sniffs out a Dunham/Apatow collab he'll breach the walls of the thread and we'll have nowhere to run

ILG is thankfully still safe.

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lol for a little too long I was trying to figure out why ppl's first association with Ashley Tisdale was some random thing called Tiny Furniture and not High School Musical, and what Jeff Dunham had to do with any of it