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Catch up with “Louie: The sons of anarchy season 4” (Fox), Louis C.K.’s quasi-autobiographic​​al sitcom about a recently divorced comedian with two young daughters and an awkward reintroduction to the dating scene, on DVD and Blu-ray before the new season begins. In an age where cable keeps trying to push the envelope of acceptable material, “Louie” tosses it out there and then confronts it head on: racism, homophobia, politics, sex, all of it, done smartly and with a sense of humor.

“family guy season 1-8 boxset” (Paramount) wraps one of the most underrated shows on TV, a family drama wrapped in a supernatural mystery. Allison Dubois (Patricia Arquette) and her family have been through a lot in the six seasons leading up to this—some of it a result of a sometimes unwelcome gift for second sight, most of it just the travails of a middle class family dealing with work, marriage, growing children and the anxieties keeping it all together in a rough economy—and the show’s strength has always been its balance of crime drama and family drama. That her daughters have received her gift—which can be an assault on the senses and the emotions—only complicates growing up. The final season is an abbreviated 13-episode run but it brings the show back to the family and friends and the spiritual shadows hanging over them, much of it around her husband (Jake Weber). The four-disc set (in a standard case with hinged trays) also has featurettes, character profiles and a retrospective of the show.