Agreed. I think these reviews were spot-on. I wish I did enjoy this season more like I did the first one. Unfortunately, the writing just took a dive. The court scenes and the newspaper scenes lacked any sense of verisimilitude, characters — especially Karen — lacked consistency subject to the whims of the writers and…

2000 was a good year for British rock debuts. I remember discovering Badly Drawn Boy, Doves and, yes, Coldplay, at the same time thanks to a LA radio station, which no longer exists, that had a Sunday program focusing on British rock. All three had not yet been released in the U.S. so I had to buy them as UK imports.…

I've heard the reports about some of his behavior at some shows but my experience was the opposite. I took my younger sister, who was a big fan at the time, to see him at the Fillmore in SF as a birthday present to her.(I forget which tour, maybe Have you Fed the Fish or the album after that.) After the show, she…

You got the name of the director wrong. The episode was directed by Thomas Schlamme

It's kind of ridiculous that people make a big deal of the similarity between RHCP's "Dani California" and "Mary Jane's Last Dance" without noting that "Mary Jane's Last Dance" sounds a lot like an earlier song by The Jayhawks "Waiting for the Sun."
Interestingly, Benmont Tench of the Heartbreakers played on the…