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

"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.

definitely spend more time with his standup. don't know what you saw that didn't impress, but its worth it.

wasn't a fair viewing on my part. maybe a three-minute youtube clip?

to be fair, i enjoy his off-stage moments in the show far more than his on-stage moments. part of that is that this show really presents conversation well (not shtick or banter or quips or over-emoting, but real conversation).

the on-stage stuff in the show is definitely not him at his best (which he usually saves for his actual stand-up)

scenes with him on dates or interacting with women are compelling. the one where he was on a first-date with a younger woman, where everything went wrong, was heartbreaking. the one where he was just talking with the single-mother, while their kids had a play-date, was heartwarming. and the one where he had to humiliate himself to avoid the high-school bully, in front of his date, which had been going well up to that point, was especially sad to me.

I don't know what era of his stand up you saw, either. I've been familiar with his stand up for a little over a decade and, while I liked his old stuff fine, his newer stuff is on fire. My body hurt from laughing at his last special. His stage/talk show work and his show are both great for somewhat different reasons.

its interesting and true to life to me how verbally fumbly the louie character is in like all of his interactions w/ ppl he doesn't know well. like how hard it is to really express what you want to say if you even can pin down what youre feeling in a moment. esp in contrast to, you know, his job as a stand up comedian being abt communicating ideas. like, its prob been running thru a lot of this show, but the first time I remember it is the Miami ep and his convo @ the bar @ the end, wanting to get across that hes not gay, but hes had a good time hanging out w/ that dude etc etc - its a brilliant scene; I think it's increased this season, maybe culminating in this relationship arc where you and your partner literally cannot understand each other, idk its all interesting to think abt imo

My body hurt from laughing at his last special

― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Thursday, June 5, 2014

which one is that? netflix seems to have at least a few of them.

Pretty sure it was Oh My God.

was this the first time that Louie really did something totally unsympathetic/indefensible?

in ref to the last ep

There was the episode where he followed a grocery cashier all the way back to her apartment via the subway, despite her being obviously completely uninterested. Then he had sex with a fat black woman, which was played for laughs. That was my least favorite episode.

well ok but having sex w a big black lady is not the same as sexually assaulting someone, that's more of a portrayal issue. I don't remember the grocer thing tho...