Louie: Season 5

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FX | Season Premiere Date: April 9, 2015

Summary: The fifth season of the comedy returns with just eight episodes due to Louis C.K.'s busy career.

Creator: Louis C.K.

Genre(s): Comedy

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Season 5 Episodes

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S5:E8. Road, The - Part 2
Air Date: May 28, 2015
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S5:E7. Road, The - Part 1
Air Date: May 21, 2015
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S5:E6. Sleepover
Air Date: May 14, 2015

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Tim Goodman

Apr 9, 2015

It remains, as ever, a wholly original concoction that’s a thing of odd beauty. Read full review

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Molly Eichel

Apr 7, 2015

Where The Comedians feels forced, Louie is at once more natural and more surreal--and one of the best comedies on television. Read full review

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Sonia Saraiya

Apr 8, 2015

The FX comedy’s fifth season reveals a show that is as confident and distinctive as ever, a sitcom that is not quite like anything else on television. Read full review

Brian Lowry

Apr 7, 2015

Featuring wild swings in tone, Louis C.K.’s deeply personal, frequently melancholy vision of life opens with what amounts to a mini-masterpiece of awkwardness, then proceeds to deal with his ongoing peculiar romance, a troubled friend and finally an unexpected encounter that’s both raw and disturbing. Almost nothing else on TV--certainly in half-hour form--rivals the particularity of C.K.’s approach. Read full review

Robert Lloyd

Apr 8, 2015

It's a funny show, fundamentally, but not always, by intention. Not everything works, or works equally well; like Louie, Louis is only human.... Louie is a thought process made flesh. Read full review

Melissa Maerz

Apr 8, 2015

Even in a “laugh-centric” season that should appeal to a slightly bigger audience, it’s not the jokes that stick with you. Read full review

Mike Hale

Apr 7, 2015

The new season is a more straightforward affair over all, reminiscent in tone and structure of the show’s brilliantly mordant first three years.... As Louis C.K. reinvents the classic sitcom in his own elliptical, cerebral style, he seems to be in his absurdist theater phase, or his surrealist short-story phase--Kafka on the Hudson. (Louis C.K. still writes, directs and edits every episode.) At that level of ambition, some things work and some don’t. Read full review

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NShep53

Apr 10, 2015

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Louie is back! Going to a back-to-basics approach, the season premiere of Louie Season
5 is a hilarious hit and one the best episodes of the series.

Louie goes to a potluck.... but it isn't the correct one. He also has
sex with a pregnant woman.... and induces labor. And it is all very
funny. 10/10 worth the watch.… Expand

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emperorpenguin

May 20, 2015

Louis C.K continues to prove that Louie is the best comedy right now. The writing is sharp as always and even more honest than before. There are a lot of everyday problem in our society that is smartly written into half hour comedy show.

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ceissman

Jun 17, 2015

I was tempted to give it a 9 because the first 4 seasons might technically be better, but if this isn't a 10, what could possibly be? Very intimate, very human, and you might actually laugh out loud. Louie CK is a gift. Laugh at him and laugh with him.

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chuckvw

Apr 24, 2015

Michael Rapaport's performance in episode 2 is truly extraordinary. Louis C.K. finds that sweet spot once again between the absurd and the heartbreaking. It wasn't a "funny" episode, but it was a great piece of writing and acting.

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Ryanlap

Apr 11, 2015

Louie still got it. The first episode pot luck is outstanding and one of the best episodes of Louie in a long time. It's weird but it's hilarious and bizarre you won't regret watching Louie.

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geedup

Apr 26, 2015

I still like the show, but not as much as the first few seasons. As each season passes, the show becomes less and less funny to watch. The lifeless, self pity is who Louie IS, but episode to episode this dominates landscape of each show. Dark characters wallowing in their own self pity doI still like the show, but not as much as the first few seasons. As each season passes, the show becomes less and less funny to watch. The lifeless, self pity is who Louie IS, but episode to episode this dominates landscape of each show. Dark characters wallowing in their own self pity do not jump off the screen in any way. But I suppose I'm the knucklehead as I continue to tune in for the moments when the show becomes funnies again.… Expand

6 of 6 users found this helpful60

Superbuddha

Jun 17, 2016

As much as I love Louis CK the comedian and that I really like Louie season 1-3 I had some trouble with season 5.

All the humanist, humorous, mildly self deprecating side of Louis CK that was central to the show has been replaced by something much darker. There is so much misery and selfAs much as I love Louis CK the comedian and that I really like Louie season 1-3 I had some trouble with season 5.

All the humanist, humorous, mildly self deprecating side of Louis CK that was central to the show has been replaced by something much darker. There is so much misery and self hatred that the character and situations are hardly relatable.

I don't think that's a conscious artistic decision either: the season has been produced on a significantly tighter timescale than the previous ones, and there's definitely a feeling that the show has been hurriedly put together, with a lot of sloppy writing and poor acting - seriously Pamela Aldon is awful, just remove her once and for all.

I score this season 2/10 because here and there you may have a chuckle, but overall it's abysmal :(… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 5

91
- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: April 9, 2015
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  S5:E8. Road, The - Part 2
  Air Date: May 28, 2015
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  S5:E7. Road, The - Part 1
  Air Date: May 21, 2015
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  S5:E6. Sleepover
  Air Date: May 14, 2015
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  S5:E5. Untitled
  Air Date: May 7, 2015
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  S5:E4. Bobby's House
  Air Date: April 30, 2015
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  S5:E3. Cop Story
  Air Date: April 23, 2015
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  S5:E2. A La Carte
  Air Date: April 16, 2015
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  S5:E1. Pot Luck
  Air Date: April 9, 2015
Season 4

93
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: May 5, 2014
Season 3

94
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: June 28, 2012
Season 2

90
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: June 23, 2011
Season 1

69
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 29, 2010