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Louie Season 3 |OT| Thursdays on FX

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I am going to start watching this again today, I have all of the episodes ready to watch.

Episode 1 was so bad it turned me off from keeping up with Season 3, but I hear it gets a lot better.
 
Cornballer said:
FX just announced at the TCA event that Louie has been renewed for a 4th season.
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(I realise this same response was posted on the last page, but it was a janky gif. And this is a new page, too.)
 
big ander said:
think the one that stuck out most to me was one that everyone else loved: tape recorder. it was a little cute, but it dragged for too long and was fairly predictable. same with the homeless guy, really. it was nice to see Liz deal with that problem for a second, but nothing felt important about it
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I think the tape recorder segment showed that she was willing to make up melodramatic stories about herself. The first thing I thought when that segment was over was "how much of her cancer story was true?"

She seemed to empathize with the homeless man's mental illness too much. It seemed to me that Louie was a bit unnerved by both of them by the end of their conversation about snakes.

Although it's funny how much my perception of the character was colored by her not knowing her coworker's name and the scene at the bar.
 
Quixzlizx said:
Although it's funny how much my perception of the character was colored by her not knowing her coworker's name and the scene at the bar.
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This. Really suggested that something was up with her. I really liked the scene when they were on the roof. She realized that Louie thought she was suicidal, or at least capable of jumping, and it hurt her immensely. Weird episode, but riveting.
 
This episode was great, for some reason it reminds me of the Eddie episode, also great performance from the actress, again I really love watching the interaction between characters in the show and how they express themselves, it just really pulls you in.

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I loved how in the previous episode they showed her as being so put-together and then in this one she became very unhinged. I would not have expected that, and that's what makes this show so good.
 
Quixzlizx said:
I think the tape recorder segment showed that she was willing to make up melodramatic stories about herself. The first thing I thought when that segment was over was "how much of her cancer story was true?"

She seemed to empathize with the homeless man's mental illness too much. It seemed to me that Louie was a bit unnerved by both of them by the end of their conversation about snakes.

Although it's funny how much my perception of the character was colored by her not knowing her coworker's name and the scene at the bar.
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oh yeah, the intention of those pieces was good, but I thought the presentation was off just a bit.
 
I can report that Ruth & Daughters is even better than Louie made it look. Trust me on this: get the Beet/Lemon Shrub.

I KNOW, BUT TRUST ME.

Also the pickled herring.

nomnomnomnom
 
Theory regarding the most recent episode:
Louis wasn't necessarily going for the whole MPDG vibe with Louie's girlfriend, but more trying to encapsulate an entire relationship in the span of one and a bit episodes. The weird little foibles from Posey's character didn't happen (in context of the life of Louie's character) within one night but spread over a period of months (over which she'd have been considered "normal"), and the show chose to put all of this into the 1-1.5 eps rather than having it be a series-long arc that loses it's impact over time.

I think it fits kinda nicely into C.K.'s MO, too.

Of course, I could be barking up the wrong bush, but there are a few little things that lead me to think like this. One that's just popped in my head (after pondering this theory) is the part where the guy in the pool hall is checking her out from behind the glass. Could well point to Louie and a possible insecurity with cheating, despite it never having been portrayed any further than that in the episode itself. Maybe not, but it's another thing to think about.

Anyway, I'm just gonna leave that here. Discuss.

Or not.
 
I like that a lot better. I hadn't been viewing the episode as a MPDG breakdown until I saw reviews talking about it like it obviously was one. I don't think it's anywhere near that simple. Your theory's much more interesting.
 
Shaneus said:
Theory regarding the most recent episode:
Louis wasn't necessarily going for the whole MPDG vibe with Louie's girlfriend, but more trying to encapsulate an entire relationship in the span of one and a bit episodes. The weird little foibles from Posey's character didn't happen (in context of the life of Louie's character) within one night but spread over a period of months (over which she'd have been considered "normal"), and the show chose to put all of this into the 1-1.5 eps rather than having it be a series-long arc that loses it's impact over time.

I think it fits kinda nicely into C.K.'s MO, too.

Of course, I could be barking up the wrong bush, but there are a few little things that lead me to think like this. One that's just popped in my head (after pondering this theory) is the part where the guy in the pool hall is checking her out from behind the glass. Could well point to Louie and a possible insecurity with cheating, despite it never having been portrayed any further than that in the episode itself. Maybe not, but it's another thing to think about.

Anyway, I'm just gonna leave that here. Discuss.

Or not.
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Whoa, that's a really interesting way of looking at it.
 
big ander said:
I like that a lot better. I hadn't been viewing the episode as a MPDG breakdown until I saw reviews talking about it like it obviously was one. I don't think it's anywhere near that simple. Your theory's much more interesting.
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Yeah, I think that people who have been watching it fairly solidly since the beginning (or even someone who just know's C.K.'s standup/personality) would get that something portrayed in the show wouldn't be that obvious, especially when it relates more closely to something in a romantic comedy than a slightly depressing look at the life of a comedian (as the show does).

In that sense, I guess he gives the relationship power because he dedicates a whole episode to it, but he doesn't give it the power to drag down the point of other episodes by having it run long and dilute whatever it appears in.

I mean, cast your* mind back to the very first (or second?) episode where the woman he's dating runs off and flys away in a helicopter. Obviously in terms of story, that's not what literally happens but how it felt to the character when it happened. Relating that to this, I guess one whole crazy relationship that lasted for months could easily have felt (to the character) that it happened overnight ("like it was only yesterday" would be a useful cliche here).

The show talks more in a metaphorical sense than a literal one. More than other shows, at least.


*Collective "your" :)

RatskyWatsky said:
Whoa, that's a really interesting way of looking at it.
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Thanks! I've just briefly taken a retrospective look at other episodes this season, but none of them really apply. The "gay" episode could really have only occurred (time-wise) in the space of a weekend, however there may have been something far different he was going for that I didn't pick up on that was on a similar level of "deepness" to the Daddy's Girlfriend eps.
 
oh god, lost it when those strippers started crying, and then the music. then the last part of the scene when they walk out. fucking perfect lol.
 
Radio personalities ahahahaha and referring to the worthless third wheel woman as The Hole as they do on Opie and Anthony
 
Because you eat raw meat and shit in the tub. LOL

This might be my favorite episode of the season right now.
 
Oh my god.

Never. He pushed the stroller. Shat in a tub.

Then Louie's conversation with him at the end...lol.
 
Mhm, all brilliance in there. Robin Williams was amazing and Never was hilariously awful. Perfectly random banter to cap it off.
 
just watched the episode again, and my god it's brilliant! i also realized there were no stand up cuts, a first in this show iirc. but man the scenes with robin williams, despite being utterly hilarious really had profound meaning. and the Never lol, the build up to that kid shitting is just great. the stroller, the meat in the bowl, the rug, when he asks Louie to bathe him was probably my biggest wtf lol moment, and caps it off by diarrhea in the tub lol
 
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