If they didn't have this thing all mobbed up, people like me would be screaming how they could do a show like this that wasn't all mobbed up. NYC in the 70s and particularly the music business? All. Mobbed. Up. But yeah the murder thing was a bit extreme out of the gate.

Third time someone's talked about it like that and didn't say he literally had a picture of it he was copying from. Didn't he? Or is my brain just making that up?

Last guy who needs more income. There's a doco about him on Amazon or Netflix. Much of it's about his guitar steward bringing him guitars, some from the other room and some from offsite storage somewhere. Keef basically hangs around looking like a Johnny Depp impersonation of himself and does hanging around stuff, and…

When it finally started being about baseball, yeah.

That's what I said (today, before I read this far down).

B+ is always a preposterous grade. It says you did really well but I'm not going to reward you by saying so.

maybe he's allergic to it

The show isn't too concerned about anachronism. Also, wasn't Zak copying the lightning bolt from a picture of Bowie?

That shot of Clark walking into the sea of black people dancing made me think of Art Garfunkel doing the same thing in Good to Go.

But if he stops then it's not really either an addiction or an expression of his stress levels due to his guilt and risk. There has to be a big chunk of plot devoted to cleaning him up. Like, spending a few weeks in jail, or getting someone else killed (if that doesn't just send him deeper into the hole)…

That last bit. The entire Vegas episode I kept expecting Richie to mention it specifically and show some sincere remorse about what he did to Zak's daughter. He didn't come closer than looking sheepish while being scolded. I keep trying to give him credit for his small flashes of parenting and caring for his friends,…

Speaking of Mr. Big, it's too bad Frank DiLeo is gone. Would have loved to see him in a cameo here.

Sort of the opposite. There's a showrunner who's responsible for doling out the writing and directing, and it's become clear they don't much care about tonal consistency and didn't have a really good handle on pacing. The writers and directors then go off and each do their episode or two, and what comes together as a…

You got me beat. I never noticed that Bowie wasn't singing it.

I concur with many things you are saying.

Damn you. I'd successfully blocked it out.

It's still likely the cops sicced Corso on Richie knowing they'd talk in his bugged office. Corso comes in stating the obvious falsehood that it was Richie that bashed Buck's head in. Like he knows they're listening and can't say he did it himself.

If Corso gets whacked, the tapes don't need to be suppressed, because as of this moment they don't prove anything about Richie killing a guy. Richie was there when a guy got killed, is all they might prove. Dead Corso = easy out.

If they continue to follow the Jobriath story, they could make one whole season about it, and then of course it has to explode in a shower of glitter and disappear.

But who're they going to get to play Mick? Joey Fatone?