weird, i thought i had pickpocket on ignore already. oh well, better late than never

It's hard for some people to appreciate Louie because it is so surreal and the comedy is often subtle. The range is absolutely impeccable. Sometimes you're watching a role model and sometimes a buffoon. Sometimes it's showing you awkward moments of life and other moments can be straight up horrifying. C.K. challenges his audience into completely new perspectives, often destroying the comedic norm in the process. The intelligence is undying and every single episode leaves you with something.

Louie is a vanguard show, shattering the barriers between drama and comedy and outdoing shows that focus on one or the other along the way. CK understands -- as somehow, many don't -- that the greatest sin a work of art can commit is to be boring. Louie is sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, sometimes both, but always unique, engaging and entirely deserving of every single second your eyes devote to gazing at the screen on which its playing. Possibly the greatest show from stand-up comic.

Admittedly I've only seen scattered episodes, but I've never understood the appeal. I can't imagine there is any context in the world that will make that episode with the pregnant lady farting not abysmal.

To me, it's the most "honest" stuff on TV. I like how he doesn't limit himself inside certain genre and expectations that critics and viewers might have from it, but, as it seems, just films whatever he thinks would work. I like the messy camerawork and how child actors are handled. Anyway, I never found it boring and that's quite something for the number of episodes out

I don't know who crowned Louis CK the master of all things comedy but it's simply not true. He's mediocre at best. His stand up just reveals what a pathetic man he is and his show dives further into what a mess everything is. The fact that he's baffled at times that women don't like an overweight, bald, single father is just confusing. I find his humor to be embarrassing and I feel bad for him, get help bro

This is one of the most sincere things I've seen on TV. It's a diary of an aging single father with broken hopes and dreams in a beautiful, wild, and lonely city. It's a commentary on the absurdity and tragedy of our little, techno-capitalist lives. It's an exercise in imagination and unconscious, and how the two interact with the personal and the social at many, intricate levels. Louis C.K is not afraid of losing and being wrong, and each episode feels like a therapy. Good job.

It is not uniform, but at its best it's absolutely unique and unprecedented (and actually it's unique even at its worst). There's even David Lynch in the last season, how about that. I wish it had continued.

The gold standard by which all sitcoms about schlubby, middle-aged white dude stand-up comedians must be measured.

A one-of-a-kind endeavour combining C.K.'s stand-up routines with a variety of inspired short incidents, characters and recurring threads that range from hilarious to awkward and from the very real to the deliberately surreal. C.K. can be enjoyably crass one moment and startlingly sensitive or even artsy the next and this unexpected symbiosis of extremes (and a lot in between) renders "Louie" a very poignant affair.

It's cliche to say, but I'll say it again: Louis CK is the natural successor to George Carlin, but this show is an entirely different beast. It's essentially a perfect melange of Woody Allen, Fellini, and Cheech and Chong. In other words, basically perfect.

I despise this format. I get no amusement from it.

And in tragic news today, Lebron James has died along with the rest of the Miami Heat and everybody else in the state of Florida.

As the series progresses the oddness does as well. Brutally honest and at the same time wildly inventive, you can't go wrong with this look into the mind of a brilliant comedian and philosopher.

S1: 80, S2: 82, S3: 82, S4: 85, S5: 82

Watching this for the first time now, onto season 3. So far, I've been enjoying it a lot. There's been some episodes where I just can't stop laughing, and others where they do a good job with drama. It's not the best show of this style, but it's pretty enjoyable.

Really really really good if you like cringe

gotta rewatch

I didn't expect to love this series so much. I don't like much of his stand-ups, but I think his take on life that is manifesting on this show is absolutely brilliant. I don't watch it to laugh, I watch it to learn about human conditions. It is funny, it's sad, but it's so real, so unbleviebaly real.

Louie is a wonderfully packed comedy with unmasked realism . I loved it.

Hit and miss. Mostly bleak misses.

I love that Louis presents himself as far dopier and tonguetied than he actually is. This slice of life shit has been working since Chekov wrote Don Quijote.

[through Season 5]

Since it's uncertain when/if another season will be made, I guess I'll go ahead and rate this series. Louie is far from perfect: not everything CK tries works; his inspiration seems to waver at points and in fact I straight-out dislike a couple of episodes. Yet somehow I can't help feel that taken as a whole, this must be the greatest thing ever run on TV.

Louis CK's humor is like watching a dying horse beg to be put down, but only have people go over and kick it

Show was good but CK can fuck off forever now

Excellent.

Usually pretty good when it focuses on being funny, which, as the show goes on, becomes really really rare. When it becomes an arthouse drama show, sometimes we get really good stuff like "Duckling" and "In the Woods," sometimes, as in season 4, a second-rate Woody Allen film or a plus-sized actress giving an utterly agonizing five-minute monologue about fatphobia. Louis CK often manages to be a everyman schlub in the smuggest way possible. But, as said, occasional episode flirt with greatness.

I gave up on this after one season. I love Louis' standup, and I actually liked his earlier series "Lucky Louie" better. This one is just too mean-spirited to make me laugh.

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The fourth season transcends comedy and becomes two indie dramas played out over the course of multipart episodes. Amazing filmmaking found in what started in a simple comedy series that had surrealist moments.

A bit sporadic here. First three seasons are some of the best comedy-drama you could see, you just have to laugh at how awful and embarrassing life can be. Season 3 fleshes out the character more through the Late Night three parter, and that's some excellent story-telling right there. S4 is not that great, overly dramatic and barely funny. Then S5 might be the best, it really takes a TV show and the mind of Louie to reveal the humour in every-day pain.

Louie Anderson has really lost some weight