Nathan Rabin’s AV Club reviews of the new season of Louie have been hilariously over-analytical and solemn. First graf of the latest post:

In the wonderful Martin Scorsese documentary Public Speaking, the writer and bon vivant Fran Lebowitz talks about how AIDS robbed us of multiple generations of great artists but it also robbed us of a great audience, an audience that was open-minded and well-read and witty and loyal and devoted. In other words, AIDS killed Lebowitz’s ideal audience, an audience that got her intuitively and both challenged and rewarded her.

I appreciate the trend of increased academic and artistic respect paid towards sitcoms and television at large, but to treat a show as funny as Louie this mirthlessly just seems wrong.

   

Posted on July 17, 2011