I started watching this during the first season and found parts of it to be hilarious, but not all the way through the episodes. There are always a few really funny lines in each episode but otherwise they aren’t that funny. I couldn’t put my finger on WHY I continued to watch this show through 2 seasons, but I knew I liked it.
Well now it’s season 3 and I’m still watching, and loving, it and just figured out exactly why tonight. I stopped expecting it to be a comedy and just treat it like a “show” that goes where it goes and I realized that it has a ton of heart. His interaction with his daughters is spot on and very warm, which you don’t expect in a show by Louis CK. He comes across very real in every episode and, on more than one occasion, 10 or more of the 20 minutes of showtime consist of long shots of set pieces or random people on the show that have nothing to do with Louis specifically. In most shows that’s annoying to me but i find this show more and more engaging as each new episode airs. It’s filmed in a very appealing way too I can’t describe.
I also love the short standup bits in each episode, they make me laugh hard. My favorite scene though was when his neighbor threw the water jug out of his window and it crushed the car parked outside.
Anyway, am I the only one on this board who really enjoys this show? I fear it won’t last much longer because i don’t think it’s gotten a lot of buzz.
I agree with your take on the show. This season is especially well done.
Like you, I have been trying to analyze what there is about Louie and his eye for the offbeat that just works so well.
There’s no way to describe the work that went into a 30-minute fart joke that had me guffawing for five minutes or better. Or the one where he took his kids to meet his aunt and she drops dead. You have to trust your audience to get away with that sort of thing. But I just know Larry David has to be looking at Louie for ideas!
The scene in, I think, the last episode of season 1, where he comes home from a night out with the black comedians and feels all out of place and lost and his girls are awake and want to eat so he takes them for pancakes at 4am was incredibly well done and I think was the turning point where I realized that this show couldn’t be shoehorned into the “comedy” label just because it’s entirely based around a really stand up comic.
Oh, I was wrong, it’s only in the 2nd season. Not sure why I thought 3 earlier.
I’m definitely watching this one. As **Cubsfan ** notes, it has a ton of heart, and I like that. It’s often not particularly funny, but it makes me laugh when it wants to (I could do without Gervais’ character, however, despite having liked him in other things). It’s very often quite touching, and sometimes in ways I wouldn’t expect.
I’m hoping it lasts for at least a few more seasons. Louis CK is a likable guy, and his down-to-earth take on life could certainly provide many many worthwhile episodes.
Yeah, it’s good. There’s a weirdness to it like you’re watching vignettes from a European art school film class. The bulky episode really typifies the vibe.
I have an enormous amount of trust in this show. In any other show said, “We’re gonna have an episode that features the main character having a conversation with Joan Rivers for 15 minutes,” I wouldn’t even watch the episode. But I trust that Louie will pull it off, and he always does.
The show makes me uncomfortable a little, but not as much as Larry David’s show.
I decided last week that the big difference between David and CK is that Larry David cant keep his mouth shut and that’s the premise of the show. Louis on the other hand often does not speak up and that drives the plot.
I am much more like Louis, staying quiet, and people like Larry David with his big mouth turn me off.
I just found this show this season. I had seen hype on the internet since his HBO show and decided to catch the premiere. It was awesome, I loved damn near every minute of it. The start where his daughter explains how she loves mommy more just brutal. He does a great job of showing just how fucking bad that hurts while not letting his daughter see his pain. The fart joke was hilarious and everything felt perfect. Episode 2 was more of the same. 3-4 seemed to be a lot less funny as a whole, but I think it was more my expectations were off. Louie is a slice of life show that is funny, not a comedy. His standup special “Chewed Up” is also on netflix instant streaming. I also created a Louie CK channel on my Pandora. The channel created a rotation of Louie, David Cross(funny but bitter), Brian Posehn(funny), Gaffigan(hit or miss), Christian Finnegan(ok), Nick Swardson(funny), Patton Oswalt(hit or miss, but when he hits great), and Doug Benson(ok we know you love weed, now tell an actual joke).
Last night’s episode was my favorite of the series so far. The scene with him and Dane Cook was amazing and felt like both guys were “acting” out their actual feelings on their past feud. Cook’s comment about 2006 being the best year of his life… for two months… was quite moving I thought.
Just watched this episode last night after DVRing it. I agree with your comments. It was uncomfortable and great at at the same time. It seemed like Louis CK used this as a opportunity to close the book on that history and did it in a way that allowed DC and LCK both to state their positions fairly without one of them caving to the other and ending in a big hug.