Lucky Louie-Complete 1st Season (2006)

"...dirty for the sake of being dirty.  William R. Gibson, iF Magazine

Editor's Note Though it's a multi-camera show with a live audience, LUCKY LOUIE is far from being a traditional sitcom. Louis C.K. is an Emmy-winning comedy writer, and he both writes and plays the title character in this HBO comedy. Louie has a part-time job at an auto shop, but he spends most of his time at home with his young daughter. With her job as a nurse, his wife (Pamela Adlon) is the family's real provider, creating an interesting family dynamic. All 12 first-season episodes, plus a bonus episode and backstage footage, are featured.

	Jim Norton
	Laura Kightlinger
	Louis C.K.
	Pamela Adlon
	Andrew D. Weyman - Director
	Andrew D. Weyman - Producer
	Brian Schnuckel - Editor
	Leo Clarke - Producer
	Louis C.K., et. al. - Writer

Entertainment Weekly
"[The show] puts the blue in blue-collar with expletives galore in HBO's spin on the classic sitcom." -- Grade: B 02/02/2007 p.111

Variety 7 of 10
The multicamera sitcom format has a half-century of history behind it, so seeing HBO attempt to turn the genre on its head through sheer raunchiness is initially jarring -- almost like hearing children curse. The novelty, not surprisingly, wears off quickly, though there are still some extremely funny moments in this blue-collar comedy, a wildly uneven half-hour built around acerbic standup Louis C.K. Hardly everyone's cup of tea, Lucky Louie will have its loyalists, though likely as a narrow cult confection. - Brian Lowry