99 Words About … The experimental genius of FX’s ‘Louie’
Calling its budget a shoestring is being generous.
It’s closer to the little plastic things at the ends of a shoestring.
It has an aglet budget, if you will.
Yet “Louie” (10:30 p.m. today, FX) still manages to turn out some of the most remarkable television around.
As loose and experimental as the jazz that often accompanies it, the comedy is alternately sweet and filthy, intimate and ridiculous.
The only constant is the stand-up from star Louis C.K., who also writes and directs – and, until recently, edited – every episode, making him a sort of Orson Welles of penis jokes.
– CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE