At Salon, Willa Paskin has fallen in love with Laurie. ?Melissa Leo appeared in all of 15 minutes of last night?s episode of Louie as the indelible Laurie and I am already desperate for her to have her own sitcom,? she writes, going on to say that she hopes Louie goes out with Laurie again and that ?the portrayal of Laurie is far too sympathetic for her to just be another date rapist ? Though Laurie does, in fact, physically assault Louie, almost up until the moment she does, he is not scared to be in a car with her. He?s not physically threatened.? This reads to me like a crazy double standard, perhaps partly inspired by the episode, which, as Paskin rightly points out, does not complete a full gender reversal. (Very hard to stick that landing!) Paskin reads this as nuance, but couldn?t it conceivably be failure? Or maybe it?s that C.K. has trained us to see everything as surreal, or askew, so that when there is such a stark moment, like the one in the truck, we won?t let ourselves digest it that way.
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