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
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
― 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
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.
― Dan I., Tuesday, 3 June 2014 04:03 (ten years ago) link
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
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 3 June 2014 04:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/06/03/louie_s_hungarian_girlfriend_s_lines_translated_into_english_video.html
― dan m, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:29 (ten years ago) link
boy, once that elevator story arc ended, it was back to meh....
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
Thought the standup about wifebeaters, etc., was pretty timely.
― That's So (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 03:34 (ten years ago) link
He did that routine on SNL a few months ago I think. Or somewhere else on TV.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 04:16 (ten years ago) link
It was obviously placed there for a reason.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 04:49 (ten years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:00 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, I don't think it was done after the shooting, but it makes the whole routine and episode resonate even more.
― That's So (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
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?).
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:04 (ten years ago) link
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"
― Clay, Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
Well that'll be interesting.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 05:45 (ten years ago) link
i hate the pamela character, although the show gets some laffs from her from time to time
― display name changed. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 10:04 (ten years ago) link
it was funny how quickly the show moved from "elegaic farewell to love" to "louis loses all self-respect"
― display name changed. (amateurist), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 10:05 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
sometimes he gooses it a bit too much for my tastes, with the music and whatnot
but yeah his range is impressive
― display name changed. (amateurist), Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 5 June 2014 00:11 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 5 June 2014 12:21 (ten years ago) link
definitely spend more time with his standup. don't know what you saw that didn't impress, but its worth it.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 5 June 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
wasn't a fair viewing on my part. maybe a three-minute youtube clip?
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 5 June 2014 12:51 (ten years ago) link
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)
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:08 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 June 2014 13:42 (ten years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 June 2014 14:25 (ten years ago) link
My body hurt from laughing at his last special― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Thursday, June 5, 2014
― 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.
― Daniel, Esq 2, Thursday, 5 June 2014 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Pretty sure it was Oh My God.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Thursday, 5 June 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
was this the first time that Louie really did something totally unsympathetic/indefensible?
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 June 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
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.
― JRN, Thursday, 5 June 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
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...
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 June 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, my problem with that sex scene is a problem with IRL Louie, not the character Louie. The stalking that preceded it is my real answer to your Q.
― JRN, Thursday, 5 June 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
https://medium.com/@jonahweiner/you-should-be-left-with-a-fucking-mess-of-unanswered-questions-94dd8352395cjesus this is long
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 7 June 2014 05:13 (ten years ago) link
thanks for that, forks, i really dug it
― schlump, Saturday, 7 June 2014 15:34 (ten years ago) link
dr. bigelow
― Treeship, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:31 (ten years ago) link
tonight is the whole 'in the woods', seemingly ~1h30
then next week is 'pamela 2+3' and thats it for the season
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
Yep, it's movie-length tonight.
― did click through tho on the money (Eazy), Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
not really into this episode where he assaults pamela
― Treeship, Tuesday, 10 June 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link