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Feel cheated...

posted 10 years ago by office-438-942373
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As the title says... I kinda feel cheated with this show.
It's like going to my favorite coffee shop, where I go everyday for the last 3 years, and all of a sudden, Im being handed tomato juice, instead of coffee, with no warning. Im not saying tomato juice is bad...all Im saying I went there for coffee.

I like Louis CK, he's one of my favorite COMEDIANS hands down. But this is not comedy anymore. Like others here have said, I think I laughed maybe 2 or 3 times during the entire season. I came here expecting comedy...weird, dark, twisted comedy for sure...but still 100% pure comedy. What I got instead is some artsy drama episodes. Im sorry, but Im just not interested in that.

If I wanted weird *beep* up drama, I would watch a Woody Allen movie. And speaking of Woody Allen..might he be the reason for this sudden style change? The Blue Jasmine experience might have changed LCK's optics on entertainment / television.
He is trying too hard to be something he is not. He should stick to comedy and stand up imo.

[–] BSQuared_41 10 years ago

I would have thought tomatoe juice WOULD be a bad thing...because wouldn't that mean there's a toe in your juice?

As far as the relevant topic at hand, I don't think this show was ever 100% pure comedy. There's always been some weird and dark drama bits from the first season. Yes, there were certainly more of them this year -- but it isn't like Louie has never dipped into the weird or the surreal before this season.

"I was born for politics: I have great hair and I love lying."

[–] office-438-942373 10 years ago

Sorry for the spelling mistake, english is not my first language.

I don't have so much against the show turning into a drama (of some sort), my problem is that it's boring.
People are talking about depth and life lessons and I just can't find them. Where is the depth? If anything, it seemed like a pretentious, yet superficial dramedy.
If I had to find a word to describe the entire season, it would be Lazy. He took an episode from his stand up routine (stealing the scales) and filmed it. All the funny and meaningful moments could be put together in one episode. Infact, the entire season seamed like one or two episodes stretched out to make a season.

Think of the previous seasons...it was actually funny, interesting and emotional. (at least for me). This season was constantly like....wtf am I watching?

Louis is (obviously) a smart man, he is funny, probably the best stand up comedian in recent times, but not everything he blurts out is comedy. Or valuable.

My 2 cents anyway.

[–] BSQuared_41 10 years ago

Oh my gosh, don't apologize! I was just having fun with you, making a joke. I thought I typed a "haha" in there, but I realize now I didn't. I apologize to you if it seemed like I was being mean about it.

I can certainly understand why you'd feel bored by the show this season. I won't lie, I felt that way during some episodes too. But you know what? I've felt that way during other episodes from the first seasons too. So maybe that's why I wasn't so bothered by it this year as others were. I had already experienced that before, and like I said, the show was never a straight-up traditional comedy. There were always elements that were weird, or strange, or dramatic, and not all of it always landed for me.

I think the entire show is an experiment of some sort, for Louis CK. I don't always get it. I don't always like it. But I like and appreciate that he isn't following any particular formula and isn't afraid to make something that will put some people off. I'm tired of shows that pander to the vocal majority, the Twitter and Facebook users. So while I agree with you that parts of Louie were boring, I at least liked that it wasn't like everything else on TV.

"I was born for politics: I have great hair and I love lying."

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[–] ratsarecoming 10 years ago

Show's just progressing instead of recycling like every thing else that's on
If it would stay the same you would say, that it's getting boring cause there's nothing new in it, now it's different and you are not liking it either, you're basically rejecting the only two paths that are possible for a show to go.

Before posting you should record what you're about write, then listen to it, then figure out what's wrong with you, not the show

....and change the channel, no one's holding you at gunpoint

[–] Uvtha 10 years ago

Don't feel cheated. Just quit watching if you don't like it anymore. It's perfectly reasonable to be unhappy when something you like changes into something you don't like so much, but its ok, that happens. At least you got 2+ seasons of generally A+ sketch-ish comedy you liked and can revisit at a later date, that's a good thing.

Personally I love everything about this show. I liked when it was uproariously funny out-to-make-you-laugh in the early seasons, and I like the more subtle out-to-make-you-feel-AND-laugh touch it has now. I think the two sides compliment each other beautifully, and I like how I get a new viewing experience as the show evolves. I can see how others would not feel as I do, and their views are perfectly valid in that respect, as of course it's just a matter of personal taste.

I do though think it's valuable to let the show be what it is, not what we want it to be. If it wasn't it wouldn't have been the show that you DID like in the early seasons. If the audience doesn't follow then that's just a sign that the project is over, and that's ok.

I think as TV viewers we are used to being pandered to, sometimes a little sometimes entirely, and I honestly don't think it's good for us.

[–] information_police 10 years ago

Considering that I don't find 99% of what pass for comedies on TV, anyway, I kind of appreciate something different. There are some very subversive moments of comedy, even more cringe-worth moments and some very poignant moments of searing truth that you just don't often see anywhere.

I watch it for what it is, not for what I expect it to be.

Nobody's looking for a puppeteer in today's wintry economic climate.

[–] jetset_2002 10 years ago

I agree, i don't feel entertained at all by this season. Sure there are moments, the dating a fat girl episode wasn't bad, nor was the tickle/punch episode.

However most of it is just melo dramatic weirdness that doesn't entertain me at all.

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[–] michealoduibhir 10 years ago

+1 for the Kevin Smith reference! I laughed both times you said this.
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[–] DrinktheCoolaid 10 years ago

are you the troll? Louis CK doesn't really smoke pot. He even has a joke in his new stand up that talks about not smoking a lot so when he does smoke once or twice a year he gets REALLY high which he feels is how you should do drugs. Though I could of missed the joke you were trying to say in your previous comment.

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[–] crmdgn1 10 years ago

He's gone weird because he's addicted to pot. It's SO obvious.....

Can't believe we're the only ones who can see this, brother.

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[–] soulwaves2000 9 years ago

Some bastard deleted my entire history.....

Its painfully obvious isnt it? I guess You have to be in your late 20's and experienced a pot melt down, as well as see friends or acquiantces have one...

There we were, minding our own business, when kids started killing themselves all over my property.

[–] dsrtrosy-1 10 years ago

Well, I don't actually find him funny as a comedian, so I may actually like this show. ;)