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

Maron writes: http://www.wtfpod.com/dispatches/entries/its_the_waffle_city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfOSizCIh7Q

awesome

I really enjoyed that ep -- and maybe I'm reading too much into it but I thought that the Maron/Louie interaction was sort of a riff on the fact that most fans of Maron & Louie know about their 2-part cryfest on WTF...I thought Louie being so vague and gormless and apologising to Maron for something he'd already apologised for was just kind of a big riff on all of that baggage.

They don't really need to re-create that WTF moment or add more detail because there is real detail that's already out in the world.

Honestly just Maron sitting around cross legged in his shorts and being all curt and in control, and Louie being so meek and powerless was hilarious in and of itself.

The moment itself, the situation itself, is funny on its own without even knowing who those two really are to each other irl.

idk

Honestly just Maron sitting around cross legged in his shorts and being all curt and in control, and Louie being so meek and powerless was hilarious in and of itself.

^ agreed

I half expected the ultimate punchline in that scene to be about Maron's shorts than anything else. I don't know why.

Well, that being the first time I suspect most everyone had seen Maron's legs, they were enough of a punchline on their own.

the Silverman footage was from 92 and the Maron and Louis stuff was from 91 apparently

Yeah, I doubt it was the intended joke, but when cable channels do "from the [decade]" things, they often get inaccurate clips to fill the space. Nice subtle observation, Louis.

I've seen that CK footage before, it's so bizarre. It SOUNDS like Louie. And it looks like him if you squint but it's just kind of alarming to see him so fresh-faced and smiley. And he's wearing like a mock turtleneck or something and it's just weird.

Ha! The punchline of that vignette upthread is awesome.

This last episode was really tense! Also, whoa at the golem's violin virtuosity!

this was great! & yeah the second half was so spooked & unreal

the timing of his puking @ the poker game is perfect
also love the boston guy 'my father's dead. think about that you queer'

boston guy argument was amazing, like it was in fast-forward, there was so much confused, nonspecific emotion lapping around those last scenes

The F Murray Abraham part was great. Condom analogy had me in tears.

Loved this one. Unlike last week, I thought basically every idea/segment clicked.

moreso toward the end, i thought; the parallels between poker games maybe made it compare unfavourably i think, but since that wasn't so much the point this time, it being more about the guy's bathetic vomit, that's okay

Last couple of eps bombed for me; this was right back on track. inscrutable, sporadically funny, surreal and absurd.

i'm a total louis stan by this point. i get so excited when each episode appears - i have literally no idea what will follow.

Pretty pumped about the three part season finale...

end shot of this ep reminded me of 'night moves' btw

Pretty pumped about the three part season finale...

― Number None, Friday, 17 August 2012 23:38 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!, wow awesome

the last couple of eps have been particularly cinematic, i think - either in style (like the episode where he childminded the weird kid, where the camera seemed to frame around louie's body at every shot, the movement all expansive & fluid; or the last episode with it's claustrophobic score amid his trip to his father's place, all breathless and tense), & in content, like with the vignettes at the chemist or at the russian tea room, languorous and tonal, moodpieces. so to see him play w/continuity more strictly is really exciting. my kinda ~overriding theory~ with this season is that bc louis started writing & shooting w/o a stockpile of standup to draw from & make 3d, he's concentrated on developing other aspects more fully - so a bunch of it is about way broader behavioural stuff, much of it comically falls back on some kinda autopilot LCK stuff, & it's interested in exploring just tone & variety & scenarios & scenery way more than usual.

The last episode was kinda funny to me in that I've been playing alot of GTA and the end of the show he just starts running in the street, steals a cool motorcycle, rides to the city, then steals a boat, and it's basically like playing that game.

I loved that uncle's joke. "He was this kind of man!"

Going back to the Parker Posey thing, yeah maybe she's not technically a MPDG or whatever but her entire character was thinking of something zany, Louie saying "No, i dont want to do that" and her getting him to do it anyways. The made-up stories she told and occasional dark aside don't make her seem deep, just tailored to the alt audience. Honestly there was very little i liked about her character.

Central theme of the season is that Louie needs to grow some balls imo.

central theme of the last episode seemed to be Louie can be a dick.

The F Murray Abraham part was great. Condom analogy had me in tears.

no kidding, this is one of the weirdest characters in a series full of 'em. I can see why Abraham was brought back.

Man, this one fuckin' stressed me out.

C'mon stans, let's hear about how GREAT that episode was last nite!

loved the Chloe half, second half was yawnz

yeah this freaked me out a little. also its a shame chloe sevigny couldnt become a regular character, i was loving her in that role. but i guess that end works too.

i'm just not as excited about this show as i used to be. i preferred it when the continuity was more donald duck: new day, new set of characters, a few recurring but only insofar as they hold a single spot in the pantheon.

also manic panic pixie dreamgirl part deux

nah. also loved that she was a massive failure at everything.

Yes, break out of your shell, Louie! You have to go for your dreams!

At least it wasn't "Take this homeless guy to the hospital and get him a room at a hotel if you want to change his life..."

new day, new set of characters, a few recurring but only insofar as they hold a single spot in the pantheon.

it's still like this! only in which the recurring character is poesy, who's recurred ... like once, if that?, instead of pamela.

sevigny denouement was p hilar

C'mon stans, let's hear about how GREAT that episode was last nite!

― Iago Galdston, Friday, 24 August 2012 20:03 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i can't even work out what this post is being cynical about

i can't even work out what this post is being cynical about

― very sexual album (schlump), Friday, August 24, 2012 6:27 PM (52 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I was getting some mild grief around here a few weeks ago for saying that i don't think this season is that great...I was hoping someone might agree that last night's episode was indisputably weak,

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I liked this one fine. Wish they'd done more with Chloe I guess, but I liked the daughter stuff a lot.

pamela is daisy duck. parker posey is more like some random duck who leaves too big of an impression.

just rewatched the first episode of the season; confirmed my sense that the first three were by far the best

yes you... THE GORILLA

i mean wow, the melissa leo bit

the woman at the car place who yells at louie two eps ago (dad ep) is maria thayer (from eagleheart!)

love the way louie says 'you fucking boston ignoramus'

yeah the Thayer cameo was so weird. You can barely even see her!

caught myself in the security monitor at a cvs and was reminded of how otm that scene was where they're watching the footage of louie tripping over the box at the electronics store. "that's not me!"

hell yes. when we are all in vr matrix world looking at ourselves in the 3rd person it's going to change EVERYTHING

don't ppl own mirrors anymore?

Security cameras are designed to make you look fat