Cannavale/Richie was a savage in this episode and I loved it. In regards to it being TOO much, I'm just going to meet the show on its terms and take it as Richie going overboard with the coke and staying up all night to keep up that high of seeing the Dolls (and having a building collapse on him).

I watched the Nas: Time is Illmatic documentary. Not as much nut-and-bolts talk about how the Illmatic album was produced as I expected but a good telling of Nas's origin story and the Queensbridge projects.

Great job, Internet.

Real content?

She was all healed up as The Bad High School Girl in the first season of The Leftovers.

Well I didn't get much rose-colored nostalgia from the pilot. If anything I'd NEVER want to visit a time with trash-strewn streets, orgies were one might "bump into" a fat, sweaty Andrew Dice Clay, and have to sit in stuffy conference rooms with (probably) ex-Nazis.

It's not to me. The knives were out for this show in certain critical circles. "Oh, yet another 'difficult man' show. Count me out!" goes the lamentation. But, seriously, how many of those shows are out there. There's only been a handful of notable ones in the last 15 years and they've been among the best…

That noted hip hop scholar Baz Luhrman has you covered there.

Pretty bad. 700k total viewers when Boardwalk was pulling 2 million an episode at the end. I'm not a punk or 70's glam rock aficionado but I'm all in for the creative team (as you probably know). I thought The Deuce was going to be the also-ran between these competing gritty 70's NYC shows but now I'm thinking…

With cable shows though, the season's already in the can. HBO knows what they have on their hands and presumably likes where things go.

Why not renew 3 in 1 announcement?

I remember getting a kick out of that show. The highlight being an episode where one of the Average Joes named, like, Fredo (who was more of a long, greasy-haired blue collar goomba type than traditional "nerd") won the chance to spy on a date in a personal submarine(!).
If only there there was a website that could…

I just think, unless they do something creative with the time line, seeing 10+ year older actors trying to pick up right where they left off is going to be a little jarring.
Also, no Richardson.
Also, you can't go home again.

Its a pile of kiddie crap.

Still a better gamble than John from Cincinnati.

I'd rather watch a show ABOUT Milch and his journey as a tv writer than a past its sell-by date Deadwood movie.
(Ironic coming from a guy with a Deadwood avatar, I know.)

The Milius documentary is amazing. Everyone should watch that.

Yeah, I think it's inevitable that that is what we're going to get. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the alternative is. Rhetorically, is it possible to tell a 5 season arc of a character that keeps their hands clean?

Haven't seen Luck or Enlightened yet.

About anti-heroes, I think that term gets thrown around too liberally in the tv critic-sphere. Just because a character is at the center of the story doesn't make him the (anti-) hero. I think the term "flawed protagonist" is a better fit for a lot of what shows like this are trying to do.