Horace and Pete

Name: Horace and Pete
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: January 30, 2016
Rating: 78

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LouisCK.net | Release Date: January 30, 2016

Summary: Louis C.K. drops a surprise dramedy show on his website.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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S1:E10. Episode 10
Air Date: April 2, 2016
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S1:E9. Episode 9
Air Date: March 26, 2016
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S1:E8. Episode 8
Air Date: March 19, 2016

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Alan Sepinwall

Feb 1, 2016

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

James Poniewozik

Feb 1, 2016

Season 1 Review: 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.) Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

Feb 1, 2016

Season 1 Review: It’s not easily definable as a format, being the love child of a passion for O’Neill, stand-up comedy, and the most available format C.K. has--a webseries. That makes for a strange and sublime episode, one that is gripping in both how different it is and how familiar it feels. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Feb 1, 2016

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

Matthew Gilbert

Feb 16, 2016

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

Matt Zoller Seitz

Feb 10, 2016

Season 1 Review: Too much of the show may remind you of the experience of being trapped in a bar with shrill drunks who aren’t anywhere near as fascinating as they seem to think. Still, the series lingers in the mind. With its hurts and silences, its yellow-brown lighting and oak-and-sawdust textures, and its sense of impending doom, it is unlike anything else that calls itself American television. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Feb 1, 2016

Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review

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amheretojudge

Jul 23, 2019

CK and Buscemi is not the family you'd want but it is the one you've got and the one you can't stop conversing with.

Horace And Pete CK's love letter to Eugene O'Neill follows a non-pretentious arthouse system. And no, I am not concluding it on the basis of its marketing technique, but theCK and Buscemi is not the family you'd want but it is the one you've got and the one you can't stop conversing with.

Horace And Pete

CK's love letter to Eugene O'Neill follows a non-pretentious arthouse system. And no, I am not concluding it on the basis of its marketing technique, but the broadminded shallowness of the ideology it refers to. If the theme in Louis CK, the creator's, play dissects the inside of prejudiced abhorrent beings, he is also not obsessed on pursuing you to change or whip you with its content, on the other hand. His project isn't ambiguous or vague, if anything it is the most complete story told in its entirety to serve nothing but the purpose that it evidently wants you to eradicate from your thinking.

The livelihood that it depicts is the punishment to the unfair activities that these fellows bring upon themselves and onto others. CK doesn't compromise the quality of the show by steering it towards preaching-to-the-choir tone. Just like his stand up material, a lot of the thinking is left up to you. This personal project of his shows enormous amount of enthusiasm on not caring on the views or opinions that its by product will have. And those politically incorrect views are the distraction unlike the material we have been bombarded with in the last few years.

That crispiness, the humorisc debates, the goofiness is a celebratory distraction to what's going on or goes on in a bar. The real drama lies in the silence pitched on the screen that observes the physicality of these character in contrast to the surrounding they are in. The stillness that CK has captured is impeccable, so rarely do you get to see these calm and sweet moments choreographed and danced. Horace And Pete is a drama that is ahead of its time, just served us as a teaser to what should and could be our future, both in the real world and this two dimensional screen that we have been naming as "the idiot box".… Expand

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 30, 2016
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  S1:E10. Episode 10
  Air Date: April 2, 2016
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  S1:E9. Episode 9
  Air Date: March 26, 2016
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  S1:E8. Episode 8
  Air Date: March 19, 2016
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  S1:E7. Episode 7
  Air Date: March 12, 2016
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  S1:E6. Episode 6
  Air Date: March 5, 2016
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  S1:E5. Episode 5
  Air Date: February 27, 2016
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  S1:E4. Episode 4
  Air Date: February 20, 2016
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  S1:E3. Episode 3
  Air Date: February 13, 2016
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  S1:E2. Episode 2
  Air Date: February 6, 2016
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  S1:E1. Episode 1
  Air Date: January 30, 2016