“So Old/Playdate,” Season 1: Part 1 is transparently silly and devoid of replay value. Points lost for a four-minute fart joke with a woman screaming the entire time.Ģ7. Then we’re on to a stellar cooking montage, a vital lesson about fairness, a visit from Louie’s sister, a strong meditation on being awkward with strangers, and a capable panic scene. “Pregnant,” Season 2: “Mama’s better,” says Jane, the little one. “Dentist/Tarese,” Season 1: Of course Louis, in an anesthesia dream, would imagine a talk with Osama bin Laden, giving himself the chance to say 9/11 “wasn’t nice.” Then he fetishizes and stalks a black grocery cashier and gets told, “Suck a dick, son,” and, “You don’t get what you want - not all the time.”Ģ8. Some people repress their homosexual proclivities, and if one of them saves your life, you might as well thank them with a kiss.Ģ9. Silliness at the airport, but it’s too plain and familiar. “Travel Day/South,” Season 1: Great stand-up about entitlement. One of those episodes that meanders from start to finish, but not wholly unpleasantly.ģ0. Bobby Cannavale trains Louie in a tedious montage. Pleasant, dirty interplay between Louie and Pamela on the playground. “Gym,” Season 1: Cold open on a sexy newscaster saying silly things in Louie’s ice cream fever dream. Somewhat unfair to rank alone, as it’s pure setup for the two episodes that follow, but Louie would be the first to tell us life’s not fair.ģ1. Jay Leno cameo is hard to get excited about, as is Garry Marshall’s turn as a CBS executive underscoring all of Louie’s fears of failure. “Late Show, Part 1,” Season 3: Excellent stand-up on American exceptionalism and privilege. Funny confrontation with a Bawstan tough guy and a big getaway scene through the city, but it’s more fun for C.K. Just too strange and half-baked Louie’s got daddy issues but would rather show us three instances of stress-vomiting than do any real storytelling or explaining. “Dad,” Season 3: Brilliant cold open with Jane on the violin, but it’s downhill from there. Part 2 has some good back-and-forth with Pamela Adlon, C.K.’s TV wife from HBO’s short-lived Lucky Louie, which is always a plus.ģ3. Steven Wright and Chris Rock pop up only to chastise Louie. “New Jersey/Airport,” Season 2: Sometimes Louie is boring, like the first part of this one. Yes.) Dull failure of a date with Chelsea Peretti when Louie goes in for a kiss, she jumps into a helicopter. Field trip results in weird panic about being in Harlem. “Pilot,” Season 1: Nice intro stand-up about being alone - not single, just alone - and a parent. Part 2 takes a long time to show us what we already know: C.K.’s sensibility isn’t something old-fashioned Hollywood execs are interested in.ģ5. Builds and builds, only to make us vaguely uncomfortable. “Halloween/Ellie,” Season 2: Great underplayed gag with Lilly trick-or-treating as Frederick Douglass. Louie fears for his children’s well-being. “Looking for Liz/Lilly Changes,” Season 3: Chloë Sevigny tries to help Louie find a happy ending, then weirdly gets herself off in a café. Does a decent job at depicting the experience of dealing with parents as an adult.ģ7. “Double Date/Mom,” Season 1: Weak opener with Louie’s brother, then a half-baked plot about a demanding, self-centered mother announcing she’s gay. “Niece,” Season 2: Great stand-up about twentysomethings’ shittiness - “you’re wearing a vest that matches the building, just do the thing that is the point of the place” - is almost all this one’s got going for it.ģ8. So, with Season 4 arriving on Monday (with two episodes!) after a 19-month wait, we’ve gone ahead and rewatched the entire series to painstakingly assemble a ranking. C.K.’s distaste for continuity - and Netflix hosting all the episodes - allows anyone to jump in at any point for any amount of time. In his three seasons writing, directing, editing, and starring in Louie, he’s crafted an ever-evolving project that pivots between sitcom, stand-up comedy special, short-film experiment, and surrealist drama.
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