You Probably Didn't Know That Louis C.K. Has a New Show

He doesn't care if you watch Horace and Pete.

The last year of Louis C.K.'s career has made absolutely no goddamn sense. In May, the fifth season of his acclaimed show Louie ended. Three months later it was picked up for a sixth season. However, the show is on extended hiatus—meaning that he'll make it whenever the hell he feels like it. In the meantime, unbeknownst to the public at large, C.K. was making a secret show called Horace and Pete, which he abruptly dropped at the end of January and hasn't really bothered promoting until now. Why did he do it? Why is it just available to download on his website (the first episode is $5, the second is $2, the third is $3)? Well, it's the same reason C.K. does anything in his hilariously pessimistic and world-hardened way.

"I don't know. I just wanted to do it myself ... you watch people react to it and there isn't some company making a decision. It's just some idiot," C.K. told Jimmy Kimmel last night. "It's going okay. I mean, nobody knows about it."

Which is too bad. C.K. assembled an amazing cast—Steve Buscemi, Alan Alda, Edie Falco, Aidy Bryant, and, of course, himself—to hang out in a bar and say mostly depressing, occasionally funny things. Critics are thrilled with the results. Just this week, David Sims at The Atlantic called it, "one of the most innovative, invigorating pieces of television in years." Somewhere, deep inside, C.K. might be kind of proud of his work. Or maybe he's busy thinking about what assholes his adorable little children are.

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