terrible... so disappointed.

Strong and Moving!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This is something special. Feels like a stage play, with long shots and slow pacing. The performances from Steve Buscemi and Louis CK are truly outstanding. Awkward, achingly difficult to watch, but really outstanding. No trite feel-good resolution here, just a voyeuristic study of the darkness that oozes from the heart of man.

Imagine "Cheers" only instead of being light-hearted, episodes would focus on the fact that Sam is a sexual predator, Norm is an alcoholic in a terrible marriage and Cliff is wanted for Federal crimes. Also, Jessica Lange hangs out there.It's shot like a play, there are few to no takes and no audience. The writing and story are really raw and at times it can feel really uncomfortable. You get see Alan Alda give several angry monologues that will make you laugh, but are not funny. Louis CK and Steve Buscemi are in it doing what they usually do, but it's much darker than you would think. And like I said; Jessica Lange is there. Being Jessica Lange.

I haven't written a review in a long, long time, but this just blew me away. I've always enjoyed Louis CK, but never been a huge fan, following all his projects. If he was on, I'd watch him. It always seemed to me he had a keen eye for the dramatic though. His comedy, especially what I've seen of his series, was always funny yet interlaced through real-life drama. Horace and Pete is set as a theater play, and it's the stage from which Louie CK can now give himself a platform to do anything he wishes. The characters are, as you would expect from a play, portraying an idea rather than a character. Sometimes this can lead to shallow characters, but when done well, provides incredible insight into the surroundings. This is what Horace and Pete does so well. I have never seen anything come close to portraying modern America so well. The clash of the old ways and the new, the right and the left, nostalgia and progressiveness, right and wrong. It's as good as any play I've seen in the theatre, by any of the great playwrights, and I will now be very excited to see what project he comes up with next.

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.