Louie

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.

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

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.

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 (the casting is excellent) 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.