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- 2016
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Created By: Louis C.K.
- 2016
- TV-MA
- LouisCK.net
- 2016
- TV-MA
- LouisCK.net
Horace and Pete
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 30, 2016
78
8.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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92% Positive
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8% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
78
92% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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It's an experiment, and one with some rough edges. But Alda, Falco, and Buscemi are powerhouse dramatic actors, and C.K. makes a good reactive foil to them. The first episode (which runs slightly over an hour) feels like such a self-contained story that I have no idea what later installments will be about, or feel like, but I can't wait to see them, whenever they happen to appear.
There is, as in live theater, the occasional hesitance over a line, and the first episode relies on melodramatic twists that don’t always feel earned. But when it really gathers steam--nearly any time Mr. Alda opens his mouth, and especially in his scenes with Ms. Falco--it’s like little else on TV. (If it can be said, technically, to be TV at all.)
If the show has flaws--it’s certainly slow-moving, and the intentional abrasiveness of its characters can sometimes feel cartoonish--they deserve to be forgiven just because of the singularity of vision on display.
Even at its most obvious or ungainly, it's never less than interesting, and it's certainly not shy of conviction; no C.K. fan with an Internet connection and $5 to spare will want to pass it by.
The acting is superb, especially as the tensions become more overt in the second half.... He’d probably kill with the same material [on poltics and current events] in a stand-up show, but in a script about abuse, alcoholism, denial, and family estrangement, it doesn’t quite work. The strength of Horace and Pete is in the age-old themes festering at its heart.
With Horace and Pete, [Louis C.K.'s] ambitions can sometimes outrace his execution, but the commitment of his cast to a consciously old-fashioned kind of drama reminiscent of Arthur Miller and Eugene O’Neill makes the pilot exciting even when it’s a bit stilted.
The show falls short of being worth the fee. Its plot, surprisingly, ended up becoming both fairly complicated and quite maudlin, but the characters are too remote to either follow in byzantine detail or feel for.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 156 User Ratings
8.4
87% Positive
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 156 User Ratings
8.4
87% Positive
135 Ratings
135 Ratings
5% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
8% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Pig Newton
Initial Release Date: Jan 30, 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Gold Derby Awards
• 3 Nominations
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 2 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 2 Nominations
