Preview: FX's "Wilfred" and "Louie"
The ever-brave FX Network debuts a seriously weird comedy tonight, pairing it with the second season of "Louie," one of TV's best, most ambitious shows.
"Wilfred," starring Elijah Wood, premieres at 9 p.m. today on cable channel 43, and believe me, this is one of the oddest shows you're ever going to see.
It opens with Wood's character, a former lawyer named Ryan, printing off the third draft of his suicide note and fixing himself a banana smoothie laced with a bottle of sleeping pills. Yes, it's a comedy and yes, Ryan lives.
The next day, Ryan meets his cute next-door neighbor's dog Wilfred. But to Ryan, Wilfred looks like a big man in a cheap dog suit. It's like Jimmy Stewart seeing Harvey, but instead of a 6-foot-tall white rabbit that's invisible to everyone else, Wilfred is a 6-foot-tall Australian who smokes a lot of weed.
Wilfred is, essentially, an unfettered id, exhorting Ryan to finally live a little. They go for romps on the beach despite a "no dogs allowed" sign. They philosophize: "Everything has to do with everything," Wilfred says repeatedly. And they smoke a Cheech and Chong movie's worth of pot.
Wood is a kick, but the real star is Jason Gann as Wilfred. Gann wrote and starred in an Australian series that inspired this remake, and he's a crude, boisterous presence.
"Louie," which follows "Wilfred" at 9:30 p.m., is just as crude and boisterous, but in a darker, blackly humorous way.
Based on the cynical stand-up comedy of Louis C.K., "Louie" is one of the smartest, surprising shows on TV.
FX gave C.K. a tiny budget and carte blanche, allowing him to create a show that's completely his own. It's not a situation comedy like anything you're used to seeing. There's barely any continuity between episodes. One episode might be used to tell one story, or it might be broken into two different stories, depending on C.K.'s whims and the demands of the story.
Tonight's episode stretches for the full half-hour and deals with a visit by Louie's very pregnant sister. It's a fine example of what the show does at its best: presenting finely tuned sketches that are mostly comedic, generally exaggerated, always hysterical and absolutely not predictable.
Anything can happen here, making the show feel like a high-wire act. "Louie" takes more narrative chances than any show I know. It never goes anywhere I expect, but it always makes perfect sense in getting there.
Suicide Sleeping Pills - News
It opens with Wood's character, a former lawyer named Ryan, printing off the third draft of his suicide note and fixing himself a banana smoothie laced with a bottle of sleeping pills. Yes, it's a comedy and yes, Ryan lives.
Afterwards police went to Ms. A's home three times and called her and sent her text messages on multiple occasions encouraging her to cooperate, and on January 21 Ms. A, with no way to solve the situation, attempted suicide by swallowing sleeping pills
Depressed with life, two friends, both in their 20s, entered into a suicide pact and consumed an overdose of sleeping pills on Saturday. While one of them died, the other is admitted to a city hospital. The incident was reported from Rohini,
Yet the sorry saga has wrecked one of the most head-turning design careers of recent decades, with Galliano spending recent weeks undergoing treatment in the United States for addiction to alcohol, valium and sleeping pills. "I have a triple addiction
The nurses offer them sympathy and sleeping pills, to no avail. Our ward is unusual in that none of the four of us speaks Russian. In almost every other room in the hospital, Russian is the language of communication, and most of the Jewish and Arab
Risk of Sleeping Pills Addicted | Just Sharing
Carlsten and Waern conduct a study of 85 men and women aged over 65 who commit suicide, and compare them with a group of elderly people from the general public who do not commit suicide. After matching the psychiatric condition, it appears that all patients taking sedatives and hypnotics to overcome sleep disorders, four times more likely to commit suicide.
I think ima take 3 sleeping pills, if i dont wake up, know that i wasnt tryng to commit suicide, was jus tryna get sum rest 
1969- Singer actress Judy Garland OD’s on sleeping pills. She was 46. Whether it was an accident or a suicide we will never know.
The actress who played Auntie Em in Wizard of Oz committed suicide by overdosing on sleeping pills & putting a plastic bag over her head.
sleeping pills is not illegal, but overdoseage and trying to commit suicide is illegal!Suicide Sleeping Pills - Bookshelf
Jet
Coroner Says Phyllis Hyman Used Sleeping Pills To Commit Suicide; New LP Due Out Soon pills, according to a report released by the New York City Medical ...Sleeping pills, insomnia, and medical practice, report of a study
The author found that at least 16 of 32 persons who committed suicide ... The prescribed drugs apparently were used in the suicide in most of the 16 cases. ...Suicide Junkie
“It's not really advisable for me to prescribe sleeping pills to someone that has had a history of suicide attempts but of course it is not going to help ...The mystery of Hermann Goering's suicide
wary of Goering because the two had on several occasions discussed suicide and sleeping pills: "I talked with him sometime and he asked me how many sleeping ...Suicide and attempted suicide, understanding the cry of pain
4 Attempted Suicide: Facts and Figures 'I have to admit that I am a failed ... Alvarez went upstairs to the bathroom and swallowed 45 sleeping pills. ...Helpful Guide Directory
Sleeping Pills & Suicide | eHow.com
Sleeping Pills & Suicide. Poisoning by sleeping pill overdose is the most-common method of suicide. Sleeping pills are routinely and liberally prescribed ...
Sleep Problems and Sleep Disorders. Problems and Solutions ...
What can be done to ensure a good night's sleep? Practical ideas. What about sleeping pills? Do sleeping pills contribute to a higher suicide rate?
Sleeping Pill Suicide Information
Sleeping pill overdose is one of the most common ways of committing painless suicide. To prevent the use of sleeping pills as a self-administered tool for chemically ...
suicide and sleeping pills -- suicide days
1) how many sleeping pills do i approximately need to die, perish, expire or pass away? ... The least painful way to commit suicide is sleeping pills and vodka.I learn that in ...
barbiturate: Definition from Answers.com
barbiturate n. A salt or ester of barbituric acid. Any of a group of barbituric acid ... usually prescribed as sedatives and sleeping pills. These pills begin acting fifteen to ...