It's complicated.

This isn't quite Mulholland Drive, but the plot isn't following real-time. We find out in this episode that Richie is extremely bent by guilt over Ernst. "It was an accident!" Who's he talking about there? Buck or Ernst? Is the Ernst-drang a significant factor in the ease with which sober-Richie snapped and went John…

Tilda Swinton wasn't available so they went with someone who fit the suit. Still not half as bad as their Lou Reed who was dancing around the stage like Steven Tyler.

His real name is Tremaine Aldon Neverson. Which is the antonym of "street cred".

It is too late. They ordered a second season before the dust settled on the pilot.

Albert Einstein's brother. True story.

I didn't start the thread.

You can't. Without the NY Dolls scenes, you have no idea at all why Richie is trying to revive the company. The fact that he's doing absolutely nothing since to accomplish it is still somewhat unexplained, or was, maybe, until the end of this episode. He's been fully bent by guilt, and is piling on more things to be…

The season with Gyp Rosetti refusing to go away or grow was my least favorite, and Richie Finestra is just turning into the same atavistic psychopath who chains the plot to the middle of the floor and brings nothing good to the frame. If Cannavale wasn't so fucking good at it'd be unwatchable. It'd be more watchable…

The Showrunner is the problem, here. Each episode is being written and directed by a different crew, and somehow the pacing on Richie's intensity has not been communicated properly. He was out of control before he was back on the blow, and he's just been bouncing off the ceiling since.

And the voice is Trey Songz'.

Rockford's.

You wanted to be angry.

Billy Crystal changed the world.

Not for nothing, but Super Dave was boring. Him and Andy Kaufman. As though they thought the boring was the funny part of the bit.

This is the 70s. There were no labia in the 70s. That was a trimmed bush. From what OW said in interviews, I was expecting a full hip-to-hip mane.

Zak was meant to be bad there. He even whined about it.

Not they. Skip is ripping off American Century. He distributes extra records he paid to have pressed, which the store didn't buy (wholesale is half the sticker, up-front). Then when they don't sell and the store returns them AC pays the store back money they didnt pay AC. The store manager and Skip split it. He also…

You know what else is creepy? You can't find Ernst in the credits at IMDB. Maybe the character doesn't exist and it is we who are imagining him…

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