Warning: Full spoilers for Season 4 of Louie follow...
This season of Louie wrought many internet "think pieces" about what he may or may not have been commenting on and whose expectations he may or may not have been swerving. All because Season 4 played out differently. And a self-awareness was assumed/attached that I feel may not have existed. As as show that'd already given us three seasons of, essentially, short films ranging from light to dark, pantomime to pathos, satire to surrealism, Louie's always felt like very translucent look into where creator/writer/director Louis C.K.'s heads been at during a particular moment in time.
And so my only assumption here, from this year's dive into a long-form serialized story, is that Season 4 was, perhaps, Louis C.K.'s most personal season to date. Not that we haven't been privy to his psyche before. Often times, uncomfortably so. But the fact that C.K. devoted almost every single episode to the same running story makes me feel like these were topics that were all intimately important to him. Or they were at some point in his recent life. The theme of life post-divorce. From a romance standpoint. From a parenting standpoint. And how children can still be drastically affected by divorce even though, from most perspectives, it was the right decision to make for the entire family.
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