Get your "Troy and Abed in morning" coffee cups (or pen holder in my case since I gave up coffee) while you can.

My TiVo recorded two episodes of Louie--Into the Woods running 1:34 and Into The Woods 2 running 1:00, but the second is nearly the last hour of the first. Have I missed anything?

I mean, anything interesting because all that wasn't to me.

Buffy running for Riley's chopper?

The 1:34 episode is, as far as I know, it for this week. TiVo got confused.

Okay--the next two are Pamelas.

So, does this have any continuity with his previous series? Are those kids the kids of his divorced wife too? She's light-skinned, but they're really blonde.

AM I SUPPOSED TO CARE?

I don't think you are supposed to care, really.

Janet is blonde in flashbacks, sometimes. At least I think that is meant to be her.

By previous series, you mean the one on HBO way back when? Pretty sure not. If you mean last season - more continuity than I expected in some ways and less in others.

Didn't care for this last episode, too Very Special for my taste

I didn't watch last season. I mean the HBO one. The woman who wants to strike up with him again played his wife in that, so I wondered if that was anything but casting who you like. One of his comedian friends I also remember from that show. Why don't they cast Jerry Minor? I love Jerry Minor (he was in Second City with Colin, so I know him, ah, minorly).

By Janet (I'm so bad at all the names), you mean the ex who is light-skinned black now? Hey, I'm all for race blind casting, but why bother keeping Louis a ginger if I can't keep track of anyone else?

Actually, the Louie in the "let's get divorced on good terms" flashback was awful. Was that Janet? They had no kids--I know they joked about getting pregnant that last time, but he has two kids now and so I assumed she was a completely different woman/marriage.

The kid Louie was pretty good, I really liked the mother and the science teacher (poor dope, NPI), but the episode was literallynotliterally interminable, and I mainly wanted to see Louie's brat kid (I dislike her quite a bit) get yelled at by her mother (I like her best when she's yelling), not hugged by her father because he stole and smoked up at her age.

It was almost Very Special, but if there's a lesson from it--well, I wanted more Reefer Madness and less kumbayah.

Oh--also first time I've ever liked Jeremy Renner. That took me by surprise. Maybe I need to watch him in comedies--recommendations, anyone?

Okay, now I'm going to look up what CK stands for. Not sure why I never bothered before.

Unrelatedly--have people seen the FX previews for You're The Worst and Married? I can't quite tell them apart until they announce the show name. They all look like shitty people doing shitty things to shitty people who deserve it.

But I will look.

And know what's charmed me? Sirens. The entire cast is so charismatic, although the writing is just a little good. I hope it sticks around for a while and gets its feet under it.

CK is how you pronounce his actual name (birth name? Father's last name? Whatever, I feel confident you know what I mean), not initials. That much I know.

I have other comments to make but they will have to wait until work is not devouring me from beneath...

Huh. Well, I just learnt:

Louis Szekely, known professionally as Louis C.K., is a Mexican-American comedian

I can see how Szekely is almost C.K., but transliteration is so casual these days.

The Mexican-American part I knew nowt about. Grandpa Szekely was a Hungarian that emigrated to Mexico.

I love migration.

Or maybe I'll try to type in between tasks...

Anyway, yeah, no continuity to the HBO show, just casting people he likes.

Janet is the ex. I believe she is the only ex, although I am not sure (in as much as I am not sure about much on this show it has a fluid in show reality in general). Lily and Jane are definitely her kids, though. The marriage/kids flashback - I don't know if that was real history with Janet and weird casting, real history with another ex we haven't heard about for some reason, or some kind of fantasy sequence.

I very much enjoyed Jeremy Renner giving his cat eye drops.

What I like most about the show in general is that he just keeps trying different things. Some of it works, some of it doesn't, some of it works amazingly well, but he hasn't just settled in and said "aha, let's keep doing that" which I appreciate.