Horace and Pete

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Season 1
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 150 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 130 out of 150
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 150
  3. Negative: 13 out of 150
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  1. darthgumby
    May 6, 2016
    3
    I purchased the first episode of this show because of all the great reviews and because it was a Louis C.K. project. I like the idea of releasing a series right to the internet without all the network BS. I really like Louis C.K. and Steve Buscemi. I watch a lot of TV shows so I thought this would be a home run for me and be something I would enjoy. But... It just seems un-watchable.I purchased the first episode of this show because of all the great reviews and because it was a Louis C.K. project. I like the idea of releasing a series right to the internet without all the network BS. I really like Louis C.K. and Steve Buscemi. I watch a lot of TV shows so I thought this would be a home run for me and be something I would enjoy. But... It just seems un-watchable. The dialogue is very forced and the whole show just seems depressing and dry. I get there is some humor in the show, but there is no good delivery for it, and there is a lot of awkward silence and dead air. As others have said, it feels like a bad play being acted out.

    I tried the first 20 minutes of episode 1, and found myself just so turned off and uninspired by the show that I ended up skipping through the rest of the episode to different spots hoping it would eventually pick up or something interesting would happen. Yes, the show makes some good points and the script writing is great, but the show itself just doesn't have the delivery needed to hold my attention and it is not entertaining.

    I really wanted to give this a good review, and I want to buy the rest of the episodes. I wanted this to be a great show. But I guess I just don't get it and I can't force myself to watch something I don't like on principle. And when you have someone like me, who has grown up with a TV glued to my face 8 hours a day, watching pretty much every sitcom, cartoon, documentary, sci-fi show, drama, talk show, and reality show aired in the past 50 years - and found something enjoyable in all of them - to not find something enjoyable with Horace and Pete is a failure on the show's part, and not something I am "missing."

    I love you Louis C.K. But I don't love your show.    … Expand
  2. somedude14
    Mar 31, 2016
    1
    Take the average reddit comments section and turn it into a web-series. Then get some big names to sign on to give it some credibility, and suddenly a 1 star idea becomes 2 stars. This isn't the worst thing I've ever watched, but I really hope Louis CK goes back to doing what he does best - comedy.
  3. jameslk1
    Feb 16, 2016
    0
    Louis C.K. has turned into a pretentious tool who is as annoying as he is irrelevant. This is some of the worst television I've ever seen. Complete trash that people are too scared to call out for being @#%*. Do yourself a favor and punch yourself in the balls for an hour instead. It'll be less painful than sitting through this garbage.
  4. cb810
    Mar 14, 2016
    2
    I love Louis CK. I love his stand-up, I love his FX show, I love his appearances on talk shows.

    Horace & Pete is wildly disappointing. The cast is amazing, the acting is strong... but it just goes nowhere. It's shot like a 3 camera comedy with no audience and weird lighting. Nothing that happens in the show engages me. FAIL.
  5. bart74
    Apr 19, 2016
    0
    What a joke. This is not a show. It's a very, very bad play. Louis got a few old stars, and wrote a bunch of **** Then he wrote some **** and then some more.

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#47 Best TV Season of 2016
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#41 Most Discussed TV Season of 2016

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: David Sims
    Mar 8, 2016
    80
    If the show has flaws--it’s certainly slow-moving, and the intentional abrasiveness of its characters can sometimes feel cartoonish--they deserve to be forgiven just because of the singularity of vision on display.
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  2. IndieWire
    Reviewed by: Liz Shannon Miller
    Feb 26, 2016
    67
    Horace and Pete is quiet and intimate when it's at its best, but in so many ways it feels like indulgence. And that's fine. If you're operating at Louis C.K.'s level, I guess you get a few of those.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Feb 16, 2016
    70
    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.
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