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

Yep, it's movie-length tonight.

not really into this episode where he assaults pamela

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2014/06/07/the-darkness-and-light-louie/Rs61ELt7crps5IL4pIyOKO/story.html

Louie has not been Tony Soprano; he has been a likable, hangdog kind of guy with a lot of flaws. What will happen now? As is typical with “Louie,” I have no idea.

This has an interesting spoiler about the angle of tonight's episode, in the quoted paragraph.

that was fucking exceptional.

Yeah, that was tremendous. I wonder if Hoffman was supposed to play the science teacher. The guy that did played it beautifully, though.

the science teacher was named Mr Hoffman so I'm assuming that was the plan.

i remember, from a past interview, this being a roughly actual situation louie went through as a kid?
renner was great as a boston wastoid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjEnC9LOuuY

I wasn't expecting that tbh. Skipp Sudduth is brilliant and so are the kids, brilliant episodes.

OHHHH that's the guy from Ronin!

He seemed so familiar but I couldn't place him.

Loved the Charles Cookies tin in the background of Hoffman's kitchen.

kinda curious how his day @ that fest wouldve went had he not seen his daughter

That was McCarren pool, yes? And sex mob? Or Balkan beatbox?

Golem!

http://golemrocks.com/

featuring Aaron Diskin, who used to be in Challenge of the Future, Nick Zinner's pre-Yeah Yeah Yeahs band.

Ah, golem! Yeah, i've worked with them too; fun times!

well shit, that was one of the better hours of tv i've ever seen.

The whole scene at the outdoor concert thing was so weird I half-expected it to be a dream sequence. It really made no sense for Louie (or Todd Barry) to be there, and it also didn't make much sense for Louie's 12(?)-year-old daughter to be there unsupervised, either. Very strange pretext for him to catch her smoking weed. They didn't even really get any jokes out of it, unlike other scenes of Louie being around obnoxious young people.

yeah barry's insistence on answering louie's questions with questions ("these girls look like they're 15, how old are they?" "how old are we?" there's a couple variants on that) had me thinking we were in some kind of dreamspace.

Renner? The dealer...overlooked his part. I felt like he was in Hollywood blockbuster acting mode. He had none of the lighthearted method the rest of the cast displayed. Watching him makes me uncomfortable.

Overcooked

love that naive anti-naturalistic writing mode where everybody just addresses young louie increasingly directly as the episode goes on.

will there ever be joeks on this show again

It's still interesting to watch (altho man it is NOT paced for television and ads) but I'm not sure what the point was of stretching a funny standup bit into an unfunny extended flashback

I just can't watch it anymore... it's gotten too bleak for me and, yeah -- the jokes are few and far between. Still love his stand-up. The end to Season 3 was just great but S4 is like, soul-crushing.

at this point the show seems to be about promising that anything can happen, which draws you in, and then delivering ... nothing. (THAT'S THE JOKE)

I agree. It's 'excellent' but it's not a lot of fun.

honestly the biggest lol this ep was noticing they didn't have the money to pay for Zep's "No Quarter"

I miss the opening credits :(

Micah | Daba | Jenny | Lenny | Jacky

Not just No Quarter...the whole thing was filled with fake versions of well known songs. I definitely think I made out fake Blue Oyster Cult and fake The Cars. I found it kind of charming.

what do we think of that most recent episode with pamela? is this a good direction for the show?

Him sort of assaulting Pamela every episode? No, that would be a bad direction for the show.

there's two more episodes in the pamela storyline so i'm withholding judgement but that scene was pretty rough & gross obv

honestly the biggest lol this ep was noticing they didn't have the money to pay for Zep's "No Quarter"

Dude should use more Who songs. Townshend let him use "Who Are You" for $15,000 (which is apparently insanely cheap, as licensing goes).

i definitely look at the character differently after what he did to pamela. honestly though, that seemed kind of out of character for louie but maybe that was part of the point. i don't know: it bugs me because so much of the success of the show hinges on his likability. i mean, many of the arcs concern him learning something and it's harder to care about the emotional/intellectual development of a guy who assaults women.

i was wondering what the songs were, pretty good fakes.

can't imagine that the other parts of pamela won't wrestle with this monstrous side of louie in some intriguing way that spawns a million thinkpieces.

yeah the thinkpiece thing bothered me. the episode almost seemed opportunistic.

*louie sits behind desk, adjusts glasses* "I'll give those needlenecks at slate something to really talk about!"

you don't think it's plausible that he thought something like that?

kid louie looks like jack's kid from lost.

Halfway through and man this is grim.

legit more gripping than any "will they find the terrorist" bit on pick-yr-action-hour-thriller.

did anyone ever have a teacher as cool as the science teacher in these episodes?

yes

i fuckin wish

Reminded me of Prezbo on The Wire in a couple of ways, both his approach to teaching (connect the students' lives to the subject) and the teacher-student relationship.

Man everybody who is complaining that Louie is shit because it isn't funny anymore can get the fuck out of this thread

• After the bully gets beat up by his bro, camera panning right over Brad & Louie and then rests on a passed out kid who I didn't even know was in the room
• Renner intimidating Louie then hugging his cat after Louie leaves

Sort of got the impression Renner's character didn't want to be such a horrible arsehole to Louie in that scene but knew he had to be.