was that an adult actress playing a kid? or was she supposed to have tormented a teacher?
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 22 May 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
- it was a teacher she was meant to have pulled the skirt from- & naw, we've seen jane practice violin before, iirc w/louis telling her to shut up
btw to amend & make amends for my previous righteous Naw-ing, i was kinda wrong about the history of actors playing louie's wife; there was a scene really early on in which you saw a disembodied arm sign a divorce contract. white arm. for all the correct talk of it being a fun & audacious thing to do, casting wise, i do think it's also a pretty elegant solution to dealing with some of the issues around portraying a biographically-accurate ex-wife of actual-louis-ck.
love your post, anyway, amateurist; i have the same feeling, of at once feeling compelled to try to go back & see the episode again & then not doing so, maybe knowing part of it was the unfurling, the slow alignment of what ends up being a focal point.
& wrt the sober tone; it's really interesting what he's dedicating space to. there are scenes that haven't been mentioned, here, like louie having basically narratively irrelevant quarrels with his brother, or he & his ex reaching for phones in the teacher's office, without it even being played so dramatically as a punchline. like i think mapping out those parameters of his life is a really big part of the subsequent effect the show's able to achieve. proposing to smashing up pianos to grinning. feels so real.
― schlump, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
I'm not really a fan of the black ex-wife conceit, it takes me out of the show too much.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:32 (ten years ago) link
Is the bang-bang guy supposed to be his brother?
― 龜, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:37 (ten years ago) link
Yes
― famous instagram God (waterface), Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:38 (ten years ago) link
Ah, I wouldn't let my best friend sit on my couch sopping wet like that but if I had a brother
― 龜, Thursday, 22 May 2014 14:40 (ten years ago) link
I have totally forgotten the plot/story behind Louie's wife from Lucky Louie (see I don't even remember her character's name on this show)
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 22 May 2014 15:19 (ten years ago) link
its her irl name right? pamela
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 04:00 (ten years ago) link
btw this ep with the hurricane killing lebron james, all the miami heat, and 12 million other people goddamn dying
pam adlon is the co-producer of the show. and the voice of bobby hill from king of the hill (among a bunch of other things).
i would really like a translation of amia's hungarian break up speech.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, May 22, 2014 10:32 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
what is wrong with you. there is no conceit. he cast an actress to play his ex-wife. that actress is black.
do you not want actresses to have jobs if they are not white
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 06:31 (ten years ago) link
i hate literally all criticism of this show & so will ruin this thread myopically defending it but i can't watch two episodes of this without being so freshly reminded of just the feeling of being alive, of life & the space between people; the argument and the violin scene are exquisite examples of this & weariness with this, as if it's always achieved by the same means or else is some kind of party trick, is kind of mindblowing to me
― schlump, Tuesday, May 20, 2014 10:26 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this this this this this
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 07:58 (ten years ago) link
also, charles grodin got OLD
Todd Barry's fucking face when he gets the donut.
― overwhelmed with sweat (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 08:45 (ten years ago) link
"For $800 we could just have Jane killed"
...
*chuckle*
::cut to black::
― 龜, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
The editing on this show is tremendous
from reddit via facebook:
to Jim Norton in the club:
Amia: Nagyon hülye vagy! Kicsit se vagy vicces!(Amia translated: You are very stupid. And not funny at all!)
Last scene of ep.8while in bed: "this was a big mistake. we ruined a good thing we had. do you understand?"as she is getting up: "we'll fix it somehow"walking out the door: "everything will be alright""
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:11 (ten years ago) link
thanks
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
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), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 01:18 (ten years ago) link
Why is it distracting though
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 01:19 (ten years ago) link
todd barry strand of this was just so much fun
― schlump, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
it was such a todd barry bit too i was cackling from start to finish
― smooth hymnal (m bison), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
Don't think I quite knew what a 'shit-eating grin' meant til I saw his sequence
― 龜, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 02:18 (ten years ago) link
would be very surprised if that wasn't an adaptation of an actual todd barry story
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 02:26 (ten years ago) link
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?
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
i think so.
the younger guy playing younger louis had louis ck's mannerisms and way of speaking down pat
― display name changed. (amateurist), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
yes, that's louis and his ex-wife
― Clay, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:46 (ten years ago) link
cool. he was definitely a good young-louis.
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:47 (ten years ago) link
the pacing and framing of this show is unlike anything else. It's not always funny but it's... something
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
what makes louie brilliant is that louis knows there's greater things than LOLs
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Thursday, 29 May 2014 08:23 (ten years ago) link
uh, a lot of people who don't have as much talent as louis c.k. know that.
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 29 May 2014 08:36 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Simon H., Thursday, 29 May 2014 18:49 (ten years ago) link
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.
― slugbuggy, Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
"i thought," i meant to say.
― slugbuggy, Thursday, 29 May 2014 22:59 (ten years ago) link
slugbuggy otm
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Friday, 30 May 2014 08:18 (ten years ago) link
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.
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 30 May 2014 11:28 (ten years ago) link
she didn't nearly walk in front of a subway train
― Number None, Friday, 30 May 2014 13:29 (ten years ago) link
ok i tuned in at the point where he was giving out to her about it
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:27 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I guess watching the very, very end of a long sequence without any context is probably pretty boring.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:45 (ten years ago) link
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!
― dan selzer, Friday, 30 May 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
Like opening a page of a good short story and reading it out of context.
― That's So (Eazy), Friday, 30 May 2014 14:59 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 30 May 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/05/28/louie_long_takes_season_4_is_full_of_uninterrupted_shots_take_that_true.html
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Saturday, 31 May 2014 00:59 (ten years ago) link
This story arc "Elevator" is the best thing he's done since Season One...
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 31 May 2014 23:11 (ten years ago) link
did louie overdub his voice onto young louie?
― Philip Nunez, Saturday, 31 May 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
no
― Number None, Saturday, 31 May 2014 23:28 (ten years ago) link
That kid did a great job with his mannerisms.
― Vera said that?! (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 31 May 2014 23:29 (ten years ago) link
i really couldnt figure out if it was his actual voice!
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 2 June 2014 01:06 (ten years ago) link
― 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
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 2 June 2014 01:07 (ten years ago) link
90 minute episode?!
― Οὖτις, Monday, 2 June 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link