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

todd barry strand of this was just so much fun

it was such a todd barry bit too i was cackling from start to finish

Don't think I quite knew what a 'shit-eating grin' meant til I saw his sequence

would be very surprised if that wasn't an adaptation of an actual todd barry story

so the flashback, where they decided to get divorced and had sex one last time - is that the wife with whom he had his kids, and is now divorced, and with whom he's trying to sort out jane's issues with school?

i think so.

the younger guy playing younger louis had louis ck's mannerisms and way of speaking down pat

yes, that's louis and his ex-wife

cool. he was definitely a good young-louis.

the pacing and framing of this show is unlike anything else. It's not always funny but it's... something

what makes louie brilliant is that louis knows there's greater things than LOLs

uh, a lot of people who don't have as much talent as louis c.k. know that.

The flashback sequence would have been amazing/perfect were it not for the last line. Like, we get that it's Lily's conception already.

it thought wasn't just exposition, though. it actually made her laugh, which is important to louis because she usually denies him that connection/approval. she was fighting it in that "for $800..." scene because that's like giving in for her; it breaks the tension in their dynamic.

"i thought," i meant to say.

slugbuggy otm

I generally like this show but I watched the louis'-daughter-nearly-walk-in-front-of-a-subway-train episode last night and it was so boring. The bit with the russian lady getting trapped in a lift was pretty formulaic farce as well.

she didn't nearly walk in front of a subway train

ok i tuned in at the point where he was giving out to her about it

Yeah, I guess watching the very, very end of a long sequence without any context is probably pretty boring.

Yeah, the idea of a young girl saying "daddy, it's ok this is just a dream" and stepping off a train seconds before the doors close, then being approached by a stranger, while her father takes multiple trains and runs through stations screaming while the older sister tries to calm him while trying to stay calm, totally boring!

Like opening a page of a good short story and reading it out of context.

Turns out I find this show much less compelling when Louie isn't onscreen, the flashback scene bored me.

Ivanka was hilarious in the last episode though.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/05/28/louie_long_takes_season_4_is_full_of_uninterrupted_shots_take_that_true.html

This story arc "Elevator" is the best thing he's done since Season One...

did louie overdub his voice onto young louie?

no

That kid did a great job with his mannerisms.

i really couldnt figure out if it was his actual voice!

To clarify it's purely because their kids are white that I find it distracting. I'd feel exactly the same way if a show cast a white woman as the biological mother of black children FWIW.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, May 27, 2014 9:18 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus do you know nothing about genetics at all

90 minute episode?!

That was dumb. I didn't like this episode at all. The stand-up near the end was just boring and interminable, and I don't know what he expects us to think about the sexual assault scene after that.

i thought the sandy thing felt very very very honest and true to my experience in a lot of ways, if not to the letter than certainly in spirit

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/06/03/louie_s_hungarian_girlfriend_s_lines_translated_into_english_video.html

boy, once that elevator story arc ended, it was back to meh....

Thought the standup about wifebeaters, etc., was pretty timely.

He did that routine on SNL a few months ago I think. Or somewhere else on TV.

It was obviously placed there for a reason.

I'd assume that the episode was in the can for a while. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know how those things work.

Oh yeah, I don't think it was done after the shooting, but it makes the whole routine and episode resonate even more.

It felt very specific to the episode and the theme of Louie being heartbroken and ignoring Grodin's talk and being desperate. I guess it depends on how it plays out in the coming episodes (This was Pamela: Part 1 but the next two episodes are Into the Woods Parts 1 and 2 so maybe we'll go back to Pamela in the final week?).

After the rape joke thing last year he's definitely aware of what he's doing, especially in that scene. It's blocked and shot to be as menacing and pathetic as possible.

well that's pretty easy to answer

48 09 "Elevator Part 6"
49 10 "Pamela Part 1"
50 11 "In the Woods Part 1"
51 12 "In the Woods Part 2"
52 13 "Pamela Part 2"
53 14 "Pamela Part 3"

Well that'll be interesting.

i hate the pamela character, although the show gets some laffs from her from time to time

it was funny how quickly the show moved from "elegaic farewell to love" to "louis loses all self-respect"

elegiac

just started watching this show, from the beginning, via netflix. stunned by how good it is. i know it's a comedy, but parts of episodes one -- three had me nearly in tears. not sobbing-like; just teary. show gets the sadness of life.

sometimes he gooses it a bit too much for my tastes, with the music and whatnot

but yeah his range is impressive

only saw him one time before this, in a brief stand-up clip on youtube that i didn't think was funny. only tried it on netflix cuz i didn't have time for a longer show or movie. now hooked.

skipped around and found a particularly uncomfortable episode -- season one, episode 9 -- where the 42 year-old louie is on a late-night date at a doughnut shop, and he's forced to humiliate himself to avoid a fistfight with a high-school bully. his date's reaction is sad and riveting. there's a discussion on the "another fucking shooting spree" thread, in the wake of those california shootings, about how the idea of masculinity can have warping effects on men's view of themselves and other men and what it means to be a man. this episode gets at that.