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

That's cute, growing up....nothing to do with selling ad time, who companies like to advertise to, etc....

Right. Which is why he's extended that slightly nicer persona to...an ad-free special he sold on his website.

I find it much easier to believe that he's just changed over time as a person than that he's meticulously altering the material in his show that costs next to no money to make.

I detected a very subtle yet continuous shift in Louie's character from the beginning to make him nicer, and take the sharp edges off--it wasn't triggered by reading the reviews. it goes hand in hand with cleaning up his apartment, making it tonier, etc....it's just in the nature of taking the show to the next level of popularity. but to me it's losing what made it special

― Iago Galdston, Friday, July 20, 2012 6:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

thread officially psycho

what's so weird about that? noticing how the style of the show has developed? Jeez, sorry...

are any of the people mad at this show for not being funny appreciating it dramatically/on other levels, or is it just a wasted half hour for y'all?

sometimes. i didn't laugh a ton about the smashed car window ep, but i thought it was provocative. the last episode (the miami one) i thought was unfunny and dramatically superficial. that was a wasted half hour for me. this most recent one i enjoyed.

i thought the miami one was amazing. can see how it would be totally polarizing tho. this one was v. hit and miss to me, but felt like a "typical" louie episode in a way i think the show needs. not every episode can or should be all over the place. he needs the more straightforward observational ones to sort of iterate around.

miami one was my favorite so far this season

Yeah, the Miami one was fantastic.

I was watching last night's and thinking "ooh, who's that hot bookstore girl" intitally...until it became clear that it was Parker Posey and I lost interest immediately.

The asking her out scene was cute, though. And the fist pump.

Posey's still got it

Bookstore's in my old neighborhood, ay

posey was really good! the dynamic of her being the woman-in-the-bookstore & louie having to confront the gulf he was jumping in asking her out was great.

i wondered which book store that was, i didn't recognise it?

haven't seen s3e4 yet.

i watched a few eps from the 1st season a couple of days ago. and yeah, fuck this season. so far.

that was a wasted half hour for me. this most recent one i enjoyed.
--Mordy

If you guys honestly think this way then I think you have an inflated view of television's intended function

what do you mean? how it enjoying/not enjoying a show not the most basic level of television's intended function?

The first sentence, Mordius

It was dumb and boring aka waste zzzz

Can't believe you WASTED a half hour looking at a box whose entire existence is predicated on helping us waste time

Can't believe this glorified conduit for Axe Body Spray advertisements didn't improve the quality my life in the 30 minutes of my life I actively and willfully surrendered to it

What's the beef?

whether shows on tv can be a waste of time given that the device was invented for timewasting. also does this create dimensional wormholes y/n etc zzz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qql0Yi4DxU

"Can't believe you WASTED a half hour looking at a box whose entire existence is predicated on helping us waste time"

oh, that's what is bugging u? this seems like a very minor concern.

y'know Whiney, some people tend to want to enjoy the things they watch on TV

ok caught the Parker Posey ep and really enjoyed. suck it, me of two days ago.

worst use of time travel ever

will kill hitler next time.

yeah I thought the Parker Posey interactions were p cute. And I loved Bamford's grudging hookups with Louie.

ok THAT was an awesome episode. were the last two minutes a stardust memories reference?

Manic Posey Dream Girl

That deli food looked fine as hell

Would've bailed on that date pretty early.

the deli was russ and daughters -- total lower east side institution, been open since 1914. more an "appetizing store" than a proper deli.

http://www.russanddaughters.com/

I got serious Woody vibes from it. From the walking through NY with wacky girl, shades of Diane Keaton (shades...not really the same), to that end sequence which also made me think of Stardust Memories.

yeah ^^. woody's adoring sequence of charlotte rampling is one of my favs. louie's acting on the roof got way into woody territory, too- so you aren't there so you won't fall with the falling &c.

this was interesting anyway. i liked his switch to okay kid, sure thing sport as soon as he was freaked by her shouting on the stairs. the rooftop part was really intense.

i kinda thought she was gonna jump. that opening part in the bar is kind of ominous. i thought there'd be a big reveal later on, but then again I usually forget what show I'm watching

that didn't do much for me at all.

wth does she say at the very end? right after "let's go home, ok?"

my name is liz ?

^
yeah there wasn't much covered here that posey didn't cover when she was like nineteen

oh & the music on this ep killed. the piece on the roof w/the female vocals, so good.

he's pretty much totally given up on the show being a comedy at this point and I am 100% ok w/ that.

this was too squirm-inducing for me. i felt so awkward after and yet i don't think i laughed once.

xp the music is my favorite part of the show

The music was definitely more elaborate than usual this week.

i was rewatching i think ep 1 of this season w/someone recently & they said, is this coltrane, re: a slow lifting horn kinda dirge he uses - i hadn't recognised it but it reminds me of naima or something. was in last night's, too.

he's pretty much totally given up on the show being a comedy at this point and I am 100% ok w/ that.

― Simon H., Friday, 27 July 2012 18:31 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i am not 100% sure i am doing the math right but something that's weird about this season is that it's the first, i think, that isn't based on a set of toured stand up material - the tour he did prior to filming was the Beacon special, which he released, whereas with the last couple of series' he's toured a show that has been chopped up into the tv shows, like word. & there's new, good standup in this, but probably less, & the show also goes in other directions. i don't think they're necessarily causal, but it's kinda interesting that the schedule & the release of the beacon meant he was making this season w/o the same quantity of standup bits.

open to corrections if i did my sums wrong on this.

I prefer the "early, funny ones" (that's from Stardust Memories to bring the Rampling-Posey homage full circle) of seasons 1 and 2 to Louis-as-auteur and Woody imitator...

that episode was fucking horrid. WHERE IS THE FUNNY

I prefer the "early, funny ones" (that's from Stardust Memories to bring the Rampling-Posey homage full circle) of seasons 1 and 2 to Louis-as-auteur and Woody imitator...

― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 28 July 2012 01:14 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that episode was fucking horrid. WHERE IS THE FUNNY

― thebingo, Saturday, 28 July 2012 01:15 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't have a problem with no funny
have a problem with recycled archetypes and surprising lack of original ideas