Comments on: HBO makes some really good decisions

By: Ari

Ari — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 10:19:51 +0000

I don’t know, Whitney, your sympathy doesn’t sound all that sincere! Sigh.
Ari

By: Annette Knapp

Annette Knapp — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:15:36 +0000

I hated the first two eps of this show. Then I watched a few more because I thought I had heard that one of my fav. comedians – bill burr was making a cameo in it (I was wrong) – and it really grew on me. I was laughing out loud and enjoying Laura Kitelinger (sp) and all those guys. The show was getting good. People that didn’t give it a second chance are the ones hootin’ and hollerin over its demise.

By: Kevin Huxford

Kevin Huxford — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 07:38:19 +0000

Wow…all the misdirected hate at this show. This is where the world is these days. Did LUCKY LOUIE get THE COMEBACK or DEADWOOD cancelled? No. Was it responsible for THE SOPRANOS being mediocre this season? NO. How about just judge it on its merits. Did every TV show turn out GREAT in its first few episodes? No. This show really hit its stride in the last few episodes, as said by many here. It still wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea…but do you need to cheer its death just because something you liked died before it? It dared to deal with real life marriage much better than any over-the-air sitcom ever could under current FCC guidelines. Sure, some full frontal male nudity hit for shock laughs, but it isn’t like it was the basis of the show.

By: Ed2vii

Ed2vii — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:26:20 +0000

Joe we’ll be hearing from you a year from now “whining” about how Lucky Louie was cancelled.
One thing that I think we can all agree on now is that HBO no longer gives its show time to grow like it use to. THE COMEBACK, Lucky Louie and the rest were all good shows that didn’t have enough time to develope. I thought Lucky Louie would be funnier if the cast wasn’t so stiff. But alas, that would have changed had HBO given it a couple of years.
And again for you Joe: THE COMEBACK

By: Fatima

Fatima — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:36:59 +0000

I don’t even know what this show is. and I swear to god I thought I knew everything about current pop culture.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:27:53 +0000

Yes, HBO has been making some bad decisions (*sniff* Deadwood *sniff*), but Lucky Louie WAS funny and had a lot of potential. It was a contemporary and fresh attempt at the live-audience, three-camera sitcom, HBO-style. Shows like The Comeback and Arrested Development were funny, but there’s something irritating about their continuously whining defenders. The corpse is cold; bury the body already. Just don’t knock my show just to make your point

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 23:10:10 +0000

I must say, I scanned this article for The Comeback in Italics, hoping they had dropped Louie to reinstate our beloved Ms. Cherish. But alas, it’s still MIA.
I want more Valerie!!!! Slezak – this pop blog has been lacking lately – we want more Comeback references!

By: todd sputnik

todd sputnik — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:43:29 +0000

LOUIS CK? Patently unwatchable. What’s next? Surfers from outer space?

By: Mr. Show

Mr. Show — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:32:44 +0000

The first four episodes or so of Lucky Louie were terrible, because C.K. kept trying to shoehorn his standup routine into a sitcom and he has neither the writing nor acting ability to pull it off.
However the final half of the season was some of the most hilarious stuff ever shown on TV. Segues flowed much better than the usual hamfisted “Well why do you hate [taboo topic]?” and mugging for the camera. Watch the episodes where they realize that their daughter is a jerk and the one where Louie starts going to a confessional to complain about his wife, and then try to come back and say this show deserved to be cancelled.
There was a great show waiting to come out of Lucky Louie. It just needed another season or two to come out.

By: Ellipsian

Ellipsian — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:32:16 +0000

I’m a bit sad to see it go. I watched every episode and can say that it really was improving. I appreciated the occasional startling, raw, real moments, and the fact that their ability to cuss and be “uncensored” wasn’t always wasted on lowbrow idiocy.
Was it brilliant, or even very good? Nope. But there was potential, and a there were a few moments where I laughed harder watching than I did anywhere else this summer (Louie in the confessional, anyone?).
Hey ihateukfans, does that mean that female nudity is hilarious and genious and LESBIAN? Let’s leave the comments to those PopWatchers with insight and something to actually contribute, mmm-kay?