Absolutely Fantastic

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

A slow-paced show about a family bar, the family that runs it and the conversations the customers have in the bar. Sounds just like another show in a bar but it was written and directed by Louie C.K. So there is dark humor of course and the conversations are all about controversial topics. The conversations have such a unique point of view but not so unique at the same time. So most people talk against stereotyping, but in this show Louie C.K writes dialogues expressing so clearly and honestly the conflicts we have in our head about different stereotypes and that was something I absolutely loved about the show. Personally I feel a lot of us don't address these conflicts because the world is evolving and so should our thoughts. Horace and Pete is a very very well-written show and the actors have all done such a wonderful job.

I had no idea what this was when I went to watch it. I thought it would be comedy, almost the whole cast could make for a funny bar sitcom, but it was clearly not that. I was hooked by the time I realized it though. It's like if Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski wrote a play. The stories and the conversations stuck to me, I kept thinking about them while listening to my neighbors argue about whats racist and how meaningless voting is. I read about it online, that it was a web series and it didn't do great and was only released on Louis CK's main website. I would hope he continues making shows, but for a streaming site instead.

There are great moments in the first couple of episodes of Horace and Pete. The first episode begins slow, but the interplay of the characters as it progresses is fascinating, and Alan Alda is terrific. The second episode had a fascinating conversation about the nature of fantasy.H&P takes it's time, because it has so much of it. It is filmed and written like a play, but it goes on for hours and hours. This allows writer Louis C.K. to really delve into the characters and gives him plenty of time for interesting discussions on a variety of topics, but that freedom also allows for something that feels rambling and disjointed. H&P is like when a musician puts out a double album and you think, wow, this would be the best album ever if half the songs were cut. It's as though he wanted to express everything he ever thought about anything in one piece. I think if C.K. were forced to turn this into a three-hour play it would probably be really good, but without that discipline, it's too unfocused to keep me watching.

Once you get inside of the hole of darkness and crap that is Louis C.K. legacy you will released that this is not that surprising,actually it is quiet predictable, if you bought this show thinking that you will sit down in your dirty sofa and have some laughs with the great sense of humor of this guy ,man you made a bad decision , instead of that ,"Horace and Pete" is basically a yell of narcissism from a dude that believe , deep in his himself that he is much more than just a comedian , that's the reason why there are not canned laughs and breaks , because Louis don't want the comedy to be the center of the show , the real reason because of what he has made this beautiful piece of darkness is because he want us to released than he can make the crowd fell thing much deeper than just laughs and happiness.So in conclusion at the end this is just a wonderful try from a egocentric man to prove that he is better than what most people believe he is. And this episode is the perfect example of that.