Louis C.K. Says ‘Horace and Pete’ is Coming to Hulu
It’s not exactly unexpected news, but Louis C.K.’s beloved web series Horace and Pete is being picked up by Hulu. According to THR, while at a speaking event this past Friday night at the New Yorker Festival, C.K. let slip that “a streaming service” would be hosting the show soon, before blurting out “it’s Hulu.”
“I have no idea if I have the right to say that,” the comic admitted. “Don’t tell anyone.”
While on stage, C.K. also addressed the financial standing of Horace of Pete. He confirmed to the crowd that night that Horace and Pete was officially in the positive and had made back its initial production costs, allowing C.K. to finally write checks to Alan Alda and Steve Buscemi, his co-stars who also partially own the show. As you may recall, C.K. made waves when he went onto The Howard Stern Show earlier this year and said that the show left him “millions of dollars” in debt. Many media outlets, understandably considering C.K.’s wording, thought that meant that C.K. was in serious financial trouble, when in all actuality it just meant that the show, like many other big-budget productions, was in the negative during production but was projected to make that money back by year’s end.
“Yeah I made it all back. Made it back with all of these people buying it. The debt, everything,” C.K. told host Emily Nussbaum.
During their discussion, Nussbaum also asked C.K. how he felt about the comments made about him by Transparent creator Jill Soloway. Soloway had previously taken issue with an episode of Horace and Pete in which C.K.’s character had a sexual encounter with a person who, the episode hints, might have been trans. Soloway’s assertion was that C.K. made no effort to consult actual trans writers/actors in order to accurately portray a trans person on screen; C.K. says that that was kind of the point.
“I did not portray a transgender person on this show. This was a woman who was playing a game with me. She may have been transgender. I don’t know in my mind if I ever settled on the decision that she was transgender,” said C.K. “I actually thought it wouldn’t serve the material, which is important to me, it wouldn’t serve the mood I wanted to create to get just the right words and figure out just how these things would be said by a transgender person. That’s a different project. That’s not what I was doing. To me, I wanted it to feel like, ‘I don’t know what the f— is going on here.’ Because it puts the protagonist, who has no idea what this world is, in a really strange and difficult place.”
In short, the episode in question (episode seven) was deliberately ambiguous, meant to show the awkwardness of such an encounter through the eyes of Horace, a blue-collar guy who is woefully unaware of the social cues of that world. The show doesn’t assert that he handled the situation the right way (or that there even was a “situation” at all), just that Horace (and the audience) have some suspicions and that maybe our suspicions are unfounded; it’s meant to encourage the audience to more carefully consider how they’d broach the topic in real life, or whether it’s even worth broaching at all.
The Hollywood Reporter article is an interesting read, be sure to check out the full piece.
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