Logging

TV:  Louie Ep. 5, S.3

Some review referred to this episode as "so good, she couldn't even talk about it."  Whhhaaaa?  I've grown disenchanted with the excessive praise of Louie by the TV critics, particularly because the enthusiasm for season 3 seems to be partially about make-up for missing enthusiasm for seasons 1 and 2.  I have yet to see an episode as good as the Bully episode, the Joan Rivers episode, or the Afghanistan double episode.  Or moments as fantastic as his claiming the steps of his dream house or his date going off in a helicopter.  Maybe it was because those types of moments felt so fresh and out of character for television when I first saw them, and now, similar moments feel like seeing a magician pull the same rabbit out of a hat.  Season 3 feels like Louie has become aware of his own success and is tightening up at the plate, both taking too many pitches and then swinging too hard at other ones.  I can't blame the guy nor does it lower my opinion of him.  If anything, I'm disappointed with the way our culture interacts with interesting things -- it tends to ignore it at first, scoff at it second, and then suddenly, when some sort of popular moment hits, jump all over it like an insane crazy obsessive teenage girl and gushes over it shamelessly..... and then.... what ultimately often ends up happening, this gushing, god-like praise turns the maker into something weird.  Basically, Robert DeNiro.

I wish we treated moments like the first two seasons of Louie the way baseball teams treat pitchers throwing no-hitters.  Just don't fucking talk about it, because it jinxes the moment.  We all know what's going on, just let it play out and see how long the magic can continue.