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.

I did not know either one of those things!

I made it through the first season of Louie but haven't been compelled to keep going. I know everyone praises it to the high heavens, and it's definitely unlike anything else...ever, basically, but I rarely think, boy, I want to watch an episode of Louie. I still feel like I'd be making myself do it when I could instead watch an episode of Futurama, which I am still trekking through.

Futurama is good times.

I don't know if I would even recommend it to people, but I like Louie a whole lot. I also feel like I had to learn how to watch it over the course of the first season, but then I was really glad I had.

I definitely had to learn how to watch it because of its fuck-all approach to continuity, and there were definitely some bits I really liked. But I feel like it was a low percentage compared to what left me scratching my head or feeling unsatisfied.

I must track down the first season, but I find it (apart from much of the last 94 minutes) a very compelling and almost painfully human show.

I was expecting a comedy comedy, but there you go.

Yeah, painfully human is an excellent description.