Grade: F
In the season finale we find Louie back to his old tricks with some very special guests including the always lovely Pamela Adlon & Mr. Sa Da Tay Chris Rock. Of course its a very good episode of Louie and leaves you with what makes this show so hilarious but it also sacrifices all its great risk taking & the amazing build up presented by the series two previous episodes.
In the first half of Louie we follow him after finishing a hilarious set the the clubs bar where fellow comic Steven Wright tells Louie that he should stick around and get laid after killing his set. Louie tries to argue against it but ends up staying & of course having no luck when everyone is gone he decides to leave and is greeted by a blonde in her car. Louie as usual is hesitant but after a while decides to get into her car and she drives him off to her house in New Jersey where Louie walks in and is greeted by her husband. Of course Louie just can’t be not interested in the situation but has to question the very being of it causing him to get kicked out & lost in New Jersey. This causes Chris Rock to have to go and pick him up & berate him about the decisions that took him to that point.
In the second half we find Louie dropping off Pam at the Airport where he finds out she is going to France to join her son Serge with her estranged husband. Louie can’t help but keep asking for how long not realizing that there is no return date. Pam finally has to break it to him that she is going to try to work things out with her former husband but Louie cant help but still try to see some light at the end of the tunnel for both of them to be together. Louie even gets teary eyed as she goes through security and as she waives goodbye to him Louie cannot understand that she wants him to waive back so she yells at him to waive. Louie cannot hear Pam clearly so after a back-&-forth of whats Louie confuses “Waive to me” as “Wait for me” and louie starts to waive back & leaves happy and unaware of what just happened.
The episode of course if very funny & very good fair but compared to the rest of the season it feels very stunted, especially since it serves as the season finale.
Duckling & the penultimate episode,
Niece, took
Louie to a whole new level with its great amounts of comedy interjected with raw scenes of emotion & weirdness. The finale ignored everything set-up with the penultimate episode & delivered an episode that could have been thrown in anywhere in the entire series but the very end. There really is just no saving grace for this episode or point to argue about how much of a let down it is. I just really would have accepted
Niece as an amazing finale but I guess I will just have to hope next season is more even.
Grade: F
Ed. Side Note:
When you have to consider that this is the finale for such an amazing season you have to hold it up to not just other television shows, yes there is a lot of bad tv out there, but the standards of the previous episodes produced by the series and this was a huge disappointment for an amazing series.
