Knowing Hollywood these days, it was a fake bush, which takes away from the effect of it, makes it less daring.

No normal kids do such a thing!!! Worse, Devon didn't speak to them about it at all, she just protected them from the queen. Something is really odd about the writing in this show, it's just off, and not in a good way.

Did they show Bruce? I only heard somebody introducing him to somebody else.

It's not so impossible anymore, though, haven't you noticed? The songs are turning up everywhere these days.

I really don't like it, frankly! I know the Beatles didn't want it.

It seems like everybody is using Beatles songs now, though, for a good while, maybe a year or three. All kinds of TV shows, commercials, radio shows even! I've been wondering myself what the situation is.
In the past past, the Beatles refused to sell the rights to their songs. That changed after Michael Jackson got…

Zak wasn't inventing the lightning bolt, he was stealing it. He talks about it, says something like "maybe even make him a little like 'Ziggy'". Aladdin Sane was released in April 1973.

Pretty much describes it. As a manager, Parker kind of sucked; he may have helped at the start but was already obsolete by the 60s, when he had Elvis doing movies for the whole decade while music exploded. I read that he never got Elvis a decent record contract that paid him what he was worth or even close. By the…

What pie?

I noticed "hot" immediately. It was definitely NOT in use for "sexy" in 1973 or anytime after it until maybe the mid-90s at the earliest.
"Hot" was commonly used to refer to stolen goods, and sometimes a car, from "hotrod". I don't recall it ever being a retro word for sexy in the 70s. I seem to remember people simply…

Oh please God, no!

Lots of people aren't. Lots of characters aren't.
The more this show disappoints, the more Cannavale's face becomes repulsive to me; I swear, his eyes look duller (and even crossed in some scenes), his sallow skin looks greasier to the point where I now cringe whenever he looms within kissing distance of a woman, and…

Meh.

Thanks for sharing this. I've been asking myself what people in the industry at the time are thinking, and your friend's opinion is reassuring; I was only 13 in 1973 and stranded out n the 'burbs, but I was a big music fan since the age of 4 and listened to NY FM radio nonstop from 1971 on, so I gleaned enough about…

For some of us, the 70s interiors trigger something akin to PTSD…

I think we can tell already - more than tell; this was episode 7! There are just so many "extendeds", too - don't forget the extended ickiness of Zak's three-way. The director seems unable to discern when he's made the point and can move on. Or he and the writers aren't creative enough to know how to move on. Sloppy…

The gambling part was the infinitely stupid part, as he was stone-cold sober and couldn't blame it on coke or whisky.
It's also not that he "realizes" he could blame Zak. He set it up that way by putting the emptied cash bag back into the safe and left the door wide open. On top of that, he acted sympathetic to earn…

Until he wasn't! He should have known you can't get between Elvis and Colonel Parker. And then he did something colossally stupid while sober, so without his usual excuse of being "coked up". Bad, bad writing.

Riding the wave of easy listening would be a good ending?! Yecch! I can hardly think of a way to make any series an even bigger flop, let alone one produced by Scorsese and Jagger!
As it is, they've put their respective reputations at risk with this show. I was so hoping it would convey one or two insights that only…

Punk had barely started in 1973, in fact I don't think it was much of anything on either shore. The show's rendering of music history is not so much anachronistic as imbalanced. It has no feel for such things like massive impact of Elton John, or the many supergroups on the rise like Yes, ELP, etc. and the disco v.…