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Lucky Louie, Ep. 1.04, “Long Weekend”
Throughout Louis C.K.’s career, although he often bears a strong resemblance to the characters he plays (I count his stand-up persona among these), he almost never seems to intend for the audience to wholly identify with them. More
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Lucky Louie, Ep. 1.02, “Kim’s O”
Whereas “Pilot” suffered for being too focused on the boorishness of Louie and his friends (even if it mocked their perspective), “Kim’s O” succeeds by making her unhappiness the episode’s focal point rather than depicting her as unfortunate (but comical) collateral damage. More
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Lucky Louie, Ep. 1.01, “Pilot”
Louis C.K.’s current series, Louie, is unlike anything on T.V. The show’s cinematic style, unpredictability, and difficulty to define make it a unique outlier in the T.V. landscape, even in a world with shows as idiosyncratic as Transparent and Girls. More
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Louie, Ep. 5.07/08: “The Road” fittingly caps a ramshackle season
A shaggy, loose season comes to an appropriately low-key, ramshackle conclusion. More
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Saturday Night Live, Ep. 40.21, “Louis C.K./Rihanna” just absolutely crushes it
Throughout this Louis golden age, SNL has been an integral part creative space, because the show is practically the only place where he is able to satisfy his sketch comedy itch, whether that be a shoemaker who is doing all he can to resist dominating his worker elves or a Lumberjack with a Glory tear because people no longer by wood products. Louis’ energy permeates SNL whenever he hosts the show, giving the writers and performers implicit permission to go all out resulting in the hands down best episode, soup to nuts, of the season. And there is no better way for the show to end its 40th season than with a real barn-burner of an episode. More
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Louie, Ep. 5.06: “Sleepover” one of the series’ lightest-ever episodes
An episode that might reasonably be defined as “cute” finds room for hints of darkness and pathos on the periphery. More
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Last Night on Late Night, 5/11/15: Howard Stern kisses Dave and Louis CK talks to Seth Meyers
Real comedy still happens on late night, we can prove it. If you like Conan comedy gold, Fallon friendliness, cutesy Corden, list-making Letterman, kneedy Kimmel, and all the rest, I hope you’ll enjoy this column too. Last night on late night, Don Rickles and Howard Stern were on Late Show, Louis CK spoke with Seth Meyers about working […] More
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Louie, Ep. 5.05: “Untitled” pushes the series’ surreality past the breaking point
A less-than-satisfying episode gives itself over completely to the show’s surreal side. More
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Louie, Ep. 5.04: “Bobby’s House” eschews emasculation in search of deeper truth
A delightfully thorny episode probes gender roles, sexual intimacy, and what lies beyond emasculation. More
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Louie, Ep. 5.03: “Cop Story” examines male insecurity, served up two ways
A familiar but engaging episode features a perfectly-cast Michael Rapaport as an overbearing, insecure cop from Louie’s past. More
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Louie, Ep. 5.01: “Potluck” a too-familiar misfire
Louie’s fifth season stumbles out of the gate with a been-there, done-that premiere. More
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Louie Season 5: Louis CK returns with fresh cringes
Louie returns Thursday for a fifth season of life lessons and awkward experiences. The loosely structured yet acclaimed FX comedy, given free reign by the network, comes back true to form while still finding the ability to surprise its audience anew. After a Season Four filled with some mini-arcs that missed the mark Season Five returns to the episode model of earlier years, deploying episodes and through lines in a seemingly random order that still finds a way to make perfect sense. The show doesn’t go as far as completely abandoning the abbreviated story arcs CK has come to rely on, but after a stretch of almost looking like a more traditional half hour cringe comedy Louie is back to its old ways.
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