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| Opening theme | "Stand on the Horizon" byFranz Ferdinand |
| Composer | Dave Palmer |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 30 |
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| Production locations | Vancouver,British Columbia, Canada |
| Cinematography | David Pelletier |
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| Running time | 27–30 minutes |
| Production company | Primary Wave Entertainment |
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| Release | October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17) – December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
Loudermilk is an Americancomedy-drama television series created byPeter Farrelly andBobby Mort. The series starsRon Livingston,Will Sasso,Laura Mennell,Anja Savcic,Mat Fraser, Toby Levins, and Mark Brandon.[1][2] The show premiered on October 17, 2017, on theAT&T Audience Network. In December 2018, it was announced that Audience had renewed the series for a third season. In April 2020, the series was left without a home after the network ceased operations.[3]
Amazon subsequently acquired the rights to stream the series, and the previously unaired third season was released onAmazon Prime Video in some countries, such as Canada, in December 2020.[citation needed] The series made its U.S. debut in March 2021, while the third season was added the following month.[4][5]
Additional seasons were planned, but not produced as of 2025[update], since the show could not find a network willing to offset the production costs.[5]
Sam Loudermilk, a former music critic and a recovering alcoholic, is a substance abuse support group leader living inSeattle, who regularly doles out clever but acid-tongued critiques to his clients, his friends, and any random person he interacts with. Loudermilk, who does not have his life together in the way one might expect of a counselor, is somewhat nicer to the few people close to him, including his best friend and (usually) sober sponsor, Ben Burns, and hissponsee and unplanned roommate, Claire Wilkes.[1][6][7][8]
Frequent scenes depict Loudermilk's group sessions at a local church, with subplots deriving from the group members' lives. Farrelly expressed particular pride at the arc of Mugsy (Brian Regan) during season 3, where the character gradually rebuilds his relationship with his children before relapsing. The character of Cutter (Danny Wattley) features in a prominent subplot in season 1; Wattley was unable to reprise the role in seasons 2 and 3 after himself relapsing, but after going through recovery was planned to appear in a fourth season.[3]
| Season | Episodes | Originally released | ||
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| 1 | 10 | October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17) | December 19, 2017 (2017-12-19) | |
| 2 | 10 | October 16, 2018 (2018-10-16) | December 18, 2018 (2018-12-18) | |
| 3 | 10 | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) | |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
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| 1 | 1 | "A Girl in Trouble Is a Temporary Thing" | Peter Farrelly | Bobby Mort & Peter Farrelly | October 17, 2017 (2017-10-17) |
| 2 | 2 | "Shark Week" | Peter Farrelly | Bobby Mort & Peter Farrelly | October 24, 2017 (2017-10-24) |
| 3 | 3 | "You're Only as Sick as Your Secrets" | Peter Farrelly | Danny Smith | October 31, 2017 (2017-10-31) |
| 4 | 4 | "It's All About the Beans" | Peter Farrelly | Dave Connaughton & John Trozak | November 7, 2017 (2017-11-07) |
| 5 | 5 | "There's a New Kid in Town" | Peter Farrelly | Dave Connaughton, John Trozak & Peter Farrelly | November 14, 2017 (2017-11-14) |
| 6 | 6 | "Lay, Lady, Lay" | Peter Farrelly | Dave Connaughton, John Trozak & Peter Farrelly | November 21, 2017 (2017-11-21) |
| 7 | 7 | "Father of the Year" | Peter Farrelly | Bobby Mort & Peter Farrelly | November 28, 2017 (2017-11-28) |
| 8 | 8 | "Invitation Only" | Peter Farrelly | Shira Hoffman & Peter Farrelly | December 5, 2017 (2017-12-05) |
| 9 | 9 | "Highway 10 Revisited" | Peter Farrelly | Ricky Blitt | December 12, 2017 (2017-12-12) |
| 10 | 10 | "Bourbon Street" | Peter Farrelly | Bobby Mort & Peter Farrelly | December 19, 2017 (2017-12-19) |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [9] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [9] |
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| 11 | 1 | "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey" | Peter Farrelly | Bobby Mort & Peter Farrelly | October 16, 2018 (2018-10-16) |
| 12 | 2 | "Cruel to Be Kind" | Peter Farrelly | Bobby Mort | October 23, 2018 (2018-10-23) |
| 13 | 3 | "All Apologies" | Peter Farrelly | Jimmy Dunn, Jackie Flynn & Peter Farrelly | October 30, 2018 (2018-10-30) |
| 14 | 4 | "White Rabbit" | Bobby Farrelly | Dave Connaughton & John Trozak | November 6, 2018 (2018-11-06) |
| 15 | 5 | "I Fought the Law" | Bobby Farrelly | Dave Connaughton & John Trozak | November 13, 2018 (2018-11-13) |
| 16 | 6 | "Our Lips Are Sealed" | Bobby Farrelly | Ricky Blitt | November 20, 2018 (2018-11-20) |
| 17 | 7 | "He Ain't Heavy" | Bobby Farrelly | Danny Smith | November 27, 2018 (2018-11-27) |
| 18 | 8 | "Iron Man" | Bobby Farrelly | Kate Schriver & Laura Streicher | December 4, 2018 (2018-12-04) |
| 19 | 9 | "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" | Bobby Farrelly | Jim Freeman & Brian Jarvis | December 11, 2018 (2018-12-11) |
| 20 | 10 | "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)" | Bobby Farrelly | Bobby Mort & Peter Farrelly | December 18, 2018 (2018-12-18) |
| No. overall | No. in season | Title [10] | Directed by | Written by | Original release date [9] |
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| 21 | 1 | "Stuck in the Middle with You" | Bobby Farrelly | Bobby Mort &Peter Farrelly | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 22 | 2 | "There Goes My Baby" | Bobby Farrelly | John Jordan & Thomas Jordan | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 23 | 3 | "American Idiot" | Bobby Farrelly | Bobby Mort | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 24 | 4 | "Hit Me Baby One More Time" | Peter Farrelly | Jackie Flynn,Jimmy Dunn & Peter Farrelly | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 25 | 5 | "Just What I Needed" | Bobby Farrelly | Laura Streicher & Kate Schriver | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 26 | 6 | "Hard for Me to Say I'm Sorry" | Peter Farrelly | Dave Connaughton & John Trozak | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 27 | 7 | "Wind Beneath My Wings" | Bobby Farrelly | Ricky Blitt | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 28 | 8 | "Resurrection Shuffle" | Bobby Farrelly | Danny Smith | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 29 | 9 | "Should Have Known Better" | Peter Farrelly | Yassir Lester & Peter Farrelly | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
| 30 | 10 | "When I'm Alone" | Bobby Farrelly | Peter Farrelly & Bobby Mort | December 31, 2020 (2020-12-31) |
Loudermilk originally premiered on AT&T's Audience Network.[5] Its first season debuted in 2017. On April 12, 2018, Audience renewed the series for a second season,[6] which it premiered on October 16, 2018.[7] On December 5, 2018, it was announced that Audience had renewed the series for Season 3,[11] but the network ceased operations in May 2020 before it could air.[3] Amazon Prime Video acquired the rights for the show and released Seasons 1 & 2 on March 12, 2021.[4] On April 27, 2021, the third season premiered on Amazon Prime.[5]
Despite being based in Seattle, Loudermilk is filmed inVancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Episode writing contributors includeBobby Mort who previously worked forThe Colbert Report, as well asFamily Guy alumsRicky Blitt (who also plays Hiram in the cast) andDanny Smith.
The first season uses tracks fromAndy Shauf's albumThe Party as incidental and atmospheric score, with an eclectic soundtrack as a nod to Sam Loudermilk's past as a music critic.[12]
Review aggregatorRotten Tomatoes gives the first season an approval rating of 92% based on reviews from 12 critics, with an average rating of 7.12 out of 10. The site's critical consensus states:
Loudermilk's timely premise and sharp writing lay a solid foundation for a strong central performance from Ron Livingston, perfectly cast in this endearing dark comedy about a rock critic turned recovering alcoholic.[13]
The series is distributed by Sony Pictures TV; and in Canada, Germany, Italy, the U.K.[5][8][14][15] In the United States, Amazon Prime released the series in 2021, debuting Season 3 in the same year. Netflix aired the series in 2023 through June 2025 to notable success.[16][17][18] Amazon Prime's streaming rights were not renewed in 2024 and have already expired.
A DVD Release of Season 1 was released in UK/Europe in 2018 on Via Vision Entertainment. No releases of Season 2 and 3 have been made on physical media.
Though the cast was released from any contractual obligations to produce further episodes after the shutdown ofAudience Network, co-creator Peter Farrelly has stated that "everybody wants to come back and do Season 4", and that a production network was being sought in October 2020. In total, Farrelly has envisioned seven seasons' worth of plotlines and character arcs.[3][5]
On March 2025, the show was added to Tubi.[19]
