George Carlin was arrested in 1972. In Milwaukee, sure. But the Nixon era was schizo that way.

Gaga made him a vampire. Didn't you see American Horror Story?

They're close. Real close. Here's the Ramones in '74 at CBGB:
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Change the F**cking Channel!

Kip is about the right level of dumb for a punk-band lead singer. Henry Rollins notwithstanding.

Ato Essandoh.

With Winter out and the ratings sunk, that second season is looking ambiguous. They cauterized this season pretty well, except for Richie and Devon. That's still completely unresolved, and it's not the kind of thing you leave unresolved.

When did you realize it was CBGB? I had it as soon as they panned from the juke box. Bikers in NYC and that iconic bar? They could have been more subtle with the reveal, but hey.

Moralizing is key to storytelling. Character development. Plot. Etc. And in comedy, which all stories that end happily are, it's generally people learning to be more moral that are the thing that makes you like the story. Generically speaking. There was a time when someone getting more drugs was the moral improvement,…

I bet there was a Devon scene but it's all tied up in the "creative differences" that got Winter tossed, so they cut it. The episode seemed short this week.

And then Richie gets shot by one of the children conceived at Buck Rogers orgy in the premier episode.

You won't understand who Xavier is or what Scott's deal is if you do that.

They dropped into the middle of a sale of the company to the Germans.

Him telling off Zak in Richie's office is fucking gold. It's like listening to a block of cement falling from a crane knowing you're trapped underneath.

There are like eight different writers and directors. That's how television gets made, because there's no way one team can do a show a week. But the murder stuff is in it from the beginning. It's the main arc for the season and the main motivation for Richie's behavioral deviations. It's clearly intentional. The lack…

Want to watch for Reese. Can't stand Nicole. Can I just watch half the screen?

The interference is probably a residue of the precipitous decline in the ratings. As much as we're up in arms about how pinball the show has been, people with real money and careers in the balance must be apoplectic, but businesslike about it. In the end, they whacked the showrunner to solve their issue.

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So Terence Winter got fired over putative "creative differences." The only creative clue I can see in his old interview about Vinyl (here http://deadline.com/2016/02… ) is that he wanted to jump forward a year for the second season.