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Louie returns April 9 at 10:30 (summer TV thread)

lalark said:
I loved the use of Going to California too. Good song. Thought the finale was rushed and cheesy, but my DVR cut it off early so I didn't see whatever occurred post-credits. Is it worth recording it again to see whatever footage was included after the credits? Or does someone want to catch me up to speed?
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Ari and Mrs. Ari at fancy Italian villa. She gets up to get some more wine. Studio head (Caleb Nichol on O.C.) calls and offers Ari his job as CEO of studio. Talks about how awesome life is with more money than God. Says he'll call back in a week for an answer. Ari looks worries and lies to Mrs. Ari saying it was a guy calling about cable service. End.
 
Ari & Mrs. Ari are lounging and loving life in Italy, when Ari gets a huge offer to run a studio. I'd say it's worth recording to see again or just FF to the end on HBO on Demand.
Edit: DeacHawk's post was on another page, so I didn't see it before posting. My bad.
 
Thanks to you both! QC, good point about on demand. I always forget about that option.
 
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Tried to find a general Louie thread, but couldn't really find one, so I'm bumping this one. I'm curious what you guys have thought about this 4th season. There is very, very little comedy anymore, but even more so than in previous seasons, each episode is like a fascinating, weird little art film. I can't believe the show is getting made. The 90-minute episode this week about Louis smoking pot at a 13-year-old was so damn interesting and the casting/acting was superb. I imagine some folks would be frustrated by the shift away from comedy (although it has never been a pure comedy), but I find it so unique and strange.
 
The amount of free reign / artistic control he has is nuts. It's certainly interesting, but I'm not sure its all such a great thing.

Definitely crazy to never know what to expect when you watch the show from week to week. No other show is like that, for sure.

I hated the fat girl episode. Really liked the Hungarian girl arc. That pot episode was out of left field. I stared watching on DVR about 15 minutes in and was like wait why isnt this ending? Jeremy Renner was great.

I read/saw an interview with him that said that these little weird art vignettes are always what he has wanted to do. Like when he was first coming up as a comedian he was always on the side working to raise money for these twisted Woody Allen type films on the side. Apparently he just funded and completed one that he started years ago but never had the money to finish.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Tried to find a general Louie thread, but couldn't really find one, so I'm bumping this one. I'm curious what you guys have thought about this 4th season. There is very, very little comedy anymore, but even more so than in previous seasons, each episode is like a fascinating, weird little art film. I can't believe the show is getting made. The 90-minute episode this week about Louis smoking pot at a 13-year-old was so damn interesting and the casting/acting was superb. I imagine some folks would be frustrated by the shift away from comedy (although it has never been a pure comedy), but I find it so unique and strange.
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I was thinking that little pot smoking Louie would resonate with old Say Hey
 
TheTwinAndreBen said:
The amount of free reign / artistic control he has is nuts. It's certainly interesting, but I'm not sure its all such a great thing.
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Personally, I'd sort of enjoy him mixing in a more straightforward, comedic episode (or even vignette) from time to time, just because I think the dude is hilarious, but if this is what he wants to do and this is what it takes to get him to make a TV show, I'll take it and try to be content watching his stand-up specials. Agreed that Jeremy Renner was great, and the guy who played the science teacher was phenomenal -- really thought that was one of the best guest performances I've seen on a TV show. You just totally got that character within about 30 seconds. The kid who played Louis was also really good.

It does make you wonder what other artists could do with that kind of platform.
 
Just watched Monday's Louie. I posted on another thread that he's been doing some brilliant storytelling this year. This keeps it up. Elevator Parts 1-6 was a feature length film. This one ran 66 minutes. He's really stretching the bounds of what he's able to do in this format. It may not be funny, but it's well done.

I don't think this came out of nowhere. Much of Elevator was Louie dealing with the problems his youngest daughter was having and figuring out how to be a family with his ex. His relationship with his daughters was at the core of that story even though the focus was the relationship with Amia. This story was just kept that core of the season going.

It really hit me as a parent. My oldest turned 5 today. He's not 12 or 13 like Lily and young Louie. He can be a knucklehead who bad choices and laughs off the consequences. It won't be too long until he's faced with the choices both of them were faced with in this episode. And now it just occurred to me that I was 5 years old in 1981 the year in which the flashback took place.

I agree with Say Hey that the guests were great. I wish I didn't know Renner was in the episode so I would have gotten the "What? That's Jeremy Renner!" reaction. He was really good. Disappeared into the role. I liked the science teacher character. I really felt for him when Louie fessed up. The truth probably hurt him the most. He had no idea it was coming. You almost wonder if honesty wasn't the best policy there.

It would have been so easy to play any role as an archtype. The drug dealer, the science teacher, the worried mom, the absent dad, the principal, the bully, the short kid dork friend. CK could have used shorthand to just introduce them and move the plot along. But he didn't. He let us get to know them to understand them.

The bully who gets beat up? Nothing new. But the scene where he schedules the beat down? Excellent dark comedy. And we get to know the character enough to see where he's coming from.

The drug dealer who seems like a nice guy but is a real threat? Nothing new. But Renner gives him depth. The girl and the cat were used to broaden the character.

Man, it was just well done.
 
Louie returns tonight on FX at 10:30.
 
"Can't watch" levels of awkward. Loved the mistake pot luck though.
 
So many awkward moments. Classic Louie.
 
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