I can see why that came up but I doubt it, Charlie pulling a knife and then backing down fast out of his whole street tough persona seemed a little too much in either direction, if he was trying to stage-manage his appearance to Marnie. Plus he doesn't even seem capable of planning anything that far ahead, honestly.

Weird, she was always my least favourite. What I remember of early Marnie, (apart from her always being a drippy, uptight narcissist) is her derisively shittalking about Charlie's being in love with her without ever actually explaining it to him or breaking it off. I only actually enjoyed her character from season 3…

I get the (two) things in there that may read as Morrissey references, but the /specifics/ of the song are that it's about a cocaine blabbermouth trying to impress you with his wealth and connections, hence the "na na na" sang as mock-chattering in the chorus. You are pretty much scraping the barrel for evidence once…

Most of the lyrics of Charmless Man rule out it being about Morrissey, given he's overtly working class and chaste and the subject is a spoiled middle-upper class cocaine user. It's more likely to be another of their tracks about British social stereotypes.

Yeah, the humanised walking anachronism Begbie stuff is the only part I'd even try to transfer, other than the basic premise of uneasily reuniting the characters. The unlikely semi-pro porn production circuit was an incredibly shitty substitute for an underground culture.

Happy to explain. Ted Cruz murdered a number of people in and around San Francisco during the late 60s-early 70s and sent gloating communication to the press signed only as "Zodiac", all the while continually frustrating law enforcement efforts to identify and capture him.

Apparently you never read the article either.

She already knew of the Neon Boys before they performed anywhere and dug up a London punk band in 1973, so sure.

Chase, not Milch. I'd admit that the scenes with Vito on the run were undercut by Gannascoli's limited acting range and some silly writing, but I thought the situation as a problem for post-coma Tony - torn between enforcing a bigoted code of ethics he doesn't sincerely give a shit about or just letting everyone carry…

The Kray legacy is that gay men routinely feature in British gangster films and shows. Although the most subtle is in Get Carter, where the two London hitmen pursuing Carter are supposed to be a gay couple, but one of them dressing foppishly and wearing a cravat now just reads as very late-1960s.

I had a similar mission end where my Russian sharpshooter, one damn tile shy of being able to escape with the rest of the squad on the final turn, settled for a point blank pistol execution of the lancer who'd made the extraction a gigantic headache.

Scorsese is my favourite director, I thought Wolf of Wall Street was a blast, but I'm with Richard Hell on this. The Vinyl pilot is the worst thing I've seen him put out. It's every bit just a pastiche of his own tropes hung around a Mad Men framework.

Fair enough. I don't know why I'm defending the writing and/or period authenticity, actually, because I didn't find either very convincing. I just find generally these terms are older than people anticipate unless they're technology related

"Stoked" originated as surfer slang by the early 60s. "Too soon" I don't know about but it's not like the concept of making an off-colour remark on recent tragedy is new enough to confidently write it off as anachronism.

I think that's a fair read on Carmela. She's houseproud and enjoys the comfort and influence of wealth, but they're a weak suppression of deeper needs. The show teases out commonalities of the first world suburbanite as much as it emphasises the perversity and ruthlessness of the mob world, I don't think the show…

I said they looked a little stupid, because we know they've been called and they don't, which as you acknowledged yourself, is embarrassing even if with the right perspective we can totally understand that it could have happened to anyone under those circumstances. This is literally the only reason this is a thing…

I don't think any of them suffered a bafflingly hilarious meltdown, any more than I think Donald Trump made a spontaneous expression of magnanimity, given he clearly doesn't know why he's been ushered into the wing. They looked a little stupid for half a minute but it was entirely the moderators' fault.

Or, Trump didn't hear his name called either, for the same reason. Neither did Kasich but at least he was off camera until they repeated it clearly enough.

I wouldn't force yourself, I thought season 3 was at least fun thanks to Cannavale and the supporting cast but the show becomes increasingly laboured and contrivedly miserable after that, and the final run is pathetic. I wish BWE had just embraced the campy Gothic melodrama stuff instead of feigning tragic character…

Your general point doesn't read an awful lot like you saying that the chances of Jesus appearing anything other than white was "negligible", but if I'm to address it, the chances of a genealogical Jew from geographical Galilee appearing like a Galilean Semite are still much higher than him looking like anything else…