Article hits most of the points dead on, but of course I have things other and different to add:

Well, so is a lot of what was called "rock music" in those days.

I'm just waiting for the comparisons to Empire. Which I've never seen two seconds of but if it's a record company soap opera, the comparisons (and maybe lawsuits, because there's no such thing as bad publicity and it's free from TMZ) will come.

Could have been worse. Much worse. Gary Busey worse.

And the chick playing Ingrid keeps getting cast as German but she's Danish.

They should have reversed the crash and headwound reveal. They probably had it that way but the by-now very confused editor talked them into doing it this way, because confused.

Didn't they already mention he was discovered in a gay bathhouse? I think they did. Or were they talking about Bette?

Just for everyone's information, I noticed last night, rewatching bits of the premiere, that there's a Rod Stewart standee prominently placed in the American Century conference room. As in, clearly as if he was under contract to this label. And he's never mentioned. Not once.

He played a gay cop on Will & Grace. And this.

Maybe, but it doesn't work with the plot. Richie's sobriety seems more fresh from the way others talk about it to him, like he'd been on major benders that they'd been side-victims of. And he's done the Travels With Ernst bit before, which Devin indicates when it tips her that he's gone completely into the rabbit hole…

I've been thinking about that, and I've decided, if you watch film of the sort of chicks who populated the Warhol art scene, wooden is an accurate term for as animated as they get. I don't know where you're getting unoriginal, unless you've been watching a lot of Lifetime movies and mean the…

But if you keep it you can watch the first four seasons of Boardwalk Empire again for free!

Well, after he directed the double-episode pilot. And I watched the last half of it again last night to get some things clear in my head (mostly about who instigated the fight that ended with Buck dead—it was Buck, sexually assaulting Richie—and Richie's industry cred, which is strongly implied but not that well…

Get off my lawn. Leave the sprinkler. Stupid kids. I'll teach you to interrupt Bad Brains night.

He was in the club with Ingrid being just as obtuse with them in the scenes where Richie and Devin are getting together. 99% sure I remember Devin taking that picture, too, though maybe it wasn't that one, just one of him.

Except it's not all plot points. Richie's guilt over Ernst reaches back to hype his motivation in bashing Buck. You'd basically have to read the screenplay to avoid watching it, because recaps are going to leave out stuff that makes sense now.

Nobody knew what punk was until it was called punk and properly archetyped in England and then it broke wide and filled the void that early-70s stadium/glam/southern/prog/album rock had created in people who wanted something real (and who of course were driven absolutely batshit by disco (raises hand)). Richie gets…

Uh, no. Let me clarify. I mean Mick, being someone even the top machers must want to impress, would be someone said machers would tell their most inside-story stories to. And Mick, who doesn't need to impress anyone, wouldn't have bothered to repeat many of them. So Mick probably has a brain full of stuff that he's…

They're drawing it out too much, and got the tone too heavy too soon. Again, blame the show-runner. All of the episodes are written and directed by different crews, and nobody's modulating Richie. I think it can save itself, but only if it turns out this extended tour of the pain palace is intentional and they have a…

No. It's too significant to everything that's driving the show along. If it's not reflective of a true story from somewhere and didn't suggest the idea for the whole series, then it was at least invented early in the development as a spine. Scorsese's been doing this a long time, and when he has a mood or a time he…