Louie Season 2, Episode 8 Come On, God
10:00 PM FX
Air date: 11th August 2011
Genre: Comedy, Family
Creator: Louis C.K.
Stars: Louis C.K., Hadley Delany and Ursula Parker
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 2010 (USA)
Filming Locations: New York City, New York, USA
Series Summary:
Wisely, C.K. doesn't meddle with the formula, and he sticks to what works. If anything, this season is even darker and more surreal, especially when it comes to how C.K. deals with his kids and the pressures of being a parent. It's still consistently funny while also often being bleak and surprisingly profound. If you aren't watching this show, you should really start.The second season of the series about a comedian raising his two daughters begins with a visit from Louie's sisters.Since I'm stepping back from weekly Watches on the blog, I don't expect to be writing about Louie every week, though I'll certainly be watching. But because I visited the set for the shooting of "Pregnant," because it gives some suggestions as to the direction of the second season, and Louis CK talked to me a bit about the writing and motivation of it, here's one writeup, and then I'd love to hear what you all thought.
First, structurally, the episode told one story beginning to end (with pauses for standup, including Louis CK's gut-busting riff on the albatross that is a five-year-old child). This isn't a complete departure from last season (see "God," e.g.), and at least one upcoming episode is divided into two segments as many were last season. But the star does seem to be interested in Download Free telling more stories that play out at greater length, as opposed to the many episodes last year that included a shorter story, a long story, some standup, and maybe a vignette or two like the ones with Louie at his therapist's.
Thematically, the episode shows the character Louie growing as a single father, though still struggling with it—not just the demands of responsibility, but the challenge of his own personality. (Which, for instance, has kept him from getting to know his neighbors, not just a nice thing but a useful thing to do as a solo dad with two young girls.) Louie is neither comically inept nor suddenly unflappable: the painfully funny "I love mom more" / flipping the bird scene is followed by the deft montage of him cooking dinner, then by his earnest failure to teach his youngest daughter a lesson about envy and finally his freaking out over, and eventually grappling with, his sister's gas-based "emergency."You might have noticed a disclaimer at the end that stresses that these are fictional characters, resemblances to actual persons are unintentional, &c. &c. This is obviously a concern to someone who is writing a scathingly observed comedy about a divorced guy with the same name as himself, and Louis CK elaborated on that in a followup interview after the longer one I published here.
sources : http://www.imdb.com
10:00 PM FX
Air date: 11th August 2011
Genre: Comedy, Family
Creator: Louis C.K.
Stars: Louis C.K., Hadley Delany and Ursula Parker
Country: USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 2010 (USA)
Filming Locations: New York City, New York, USA
Series Summary:
Wisely, C.K. doesn't meddle with the formula, and he sticks to what works. If anything, this season is even darker and more surreal, especially when it comes to how C.K. deals with his kids and the pressures of being a parent. It's still consistently funny while also often being bleak and surprisingly profound. If you aren't watching this show, you should really start.The second season of the series about a comedian raising his two daughters begins with a visit from Louie's sisters.Since I'm stepping back from weekly Watches on the blog, I don't expect to be writing about Louie every week, though I'll certainly be watching. But because I visited the set for the shooting of "Pregnant," because it gives some suggestions as to the direction of the second season, and Louis CK talked to me a bit about the writing and motivation of it, here's one writeup, and then I'd love to hear what you all thought.
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Thematically, the episode shows the character Louie growing as a single father, though still struggling with it—not just the demands of responsibility, but the challenge of his own personality. (Which, for instance, has kept him from getting to know his neighbors, not just a nice thing but a useful thing to do as a solo dad with two young girls.) Louie is neither comically inept nor suddenly unflappable: the painfully funny "I love mom more" / flipping the bird scene is followed by the deft montage of him cooking dinner, then by his earnest failure to teach his youngest daughter a lesson about envy and finally his freaking out over, and eventually grappling with, his sister's gas-based "emergency."You might have noticed a disclaimer at the end that stresses that these are fictional characters, resemblances to actual persons are unintentional, &c. &c. This is obviously a concern to someone who is writing a scathingly observed comedy about a divorced guy with the same name as himself, and Louis CK elaborated on that in a followup interview after the longer one I published here.
sources : http://www.imdb.com
