The TV thread

Just finished the first season. So good.

 

Vers is right. He did walk a little closer to the edge in Season 3.

 

Good call. That haircut also screams aspiring pro wrestling manager trolling the North Alabama VFW hall circuit circa 1991.

 

Heh. Good call.

 

The scene in S2E6 when Louis tells Pamela how he feels about her is pure film excellence. Which is kind of what I meant by "more grounded in reality" than CYE because that scene in Larry David's hands would have become absurdist for the sake of absurdity.

That's one of the big things I like about this show: they use film to give it that movie feel. Desi Arnaz was adamant that the production company use film to tape I Love Lucy, which is why it still looks great 60 years later.

 

If you are jonesing for the return of "The Americans" - ABC is showing an eight-part series called "The Assets" (also set in the 80s) about the Aldrich Ames case. It isn't as good, but I don't recognize any of the actors (mostly brits) and it was shot in Lithuania. The most convincing people on the show are the archived voice-overs from ABC News' Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel.

 

I didn't cry but the end of part 2 of the Afghanistan episode just had me in tears.

Never seen a show like this.

 

The end of "Late Show Part 3" in Season 3 of Louie, with him looking up at the marquee, had me doing something I've never done towards a TV screen -- literally stand up and yell out "YES!"

I had no idea I was that invested in that little three-show storyline until that point.

The wonderful thing with the way the show is structured, he can leave it for a couple of years and return any time he wants. I could see this being a decade-long project with long spaces between for him to pursue other things.

 

I think my favorite segment ever in that show is the short one where his youngest daughter is playing her violin and she's an absolute prodigy (which that girl is in real life). She's playing some of the most amazingly beautiful music I've ever heard and the audience is just completely blown away, but Louie is annoyed she won't stop playing and do her homework.

It's just such a perfectly captured "parent" moment.

 

You need to hear more music.

 

You're mean. He had a moment.