Eh, whaddya talking, that's "pisan" to you, bub!

It's the least attractive recreational drug, I tell you! Shooting up is horrible but it's practically poetry to look at compared to people snorting coke. Snorting is the reverse of blowing your nose, after all! Ick.

That zoom is still imprinted on my retina, aaaagggh!

Welcome to the US-European culture industry! That's what it is.

I said the same thing about the Bits being too early after an earlier episode. You're exactly right about the timing, but the kids who grew up during postwar rationing? That's the rock generation born 47-50. Punk was the working class Brit kids from the mid to late 50s - parallel to baby boomers like your dad, but in…

Laura Nyro.

Sleeping with him as well, no? ;)

I applaud your dad and you, very gratifying to meet you virtually! However having lived through the punk period at the right age for it, more or less, I have to disagree with you. I am too tired at the mo to develop the counter-argument, but Ramones come to mind, Iggy; influence is tangible in music by the Talking…

It does give the feeling that they're just ticking names off a ilst, not saying anything particularly meaningful as they go.

I agree. Joni Mitchell was mentioned and played, I think, but they never know what to do with women in these kinds of shows - Mick and Scorsese couldn't possibly relate their stories authentically, they were too busy bed-hopping at the time to absorb much about how different women experienced the era.

Mamma Cass…

I agree that the pedigree is a key aspect; we have a reasonable
expectation of a higher quality series, so we hold it to a higher
standard.
I admire your optimism and appreciate your account of the plot. In fact, you put it together better than the producers and the director in a way that actually rendered meaning.…

Which was weird, in a way, that they showed their hand so quickly.
I was thinking they must have gotten a warrant for the bug and the wiretapping; seems to me they had ample probable cause.

Nice summation.

Agree with your first paragraph, same feeling. Just when you start to enjoy it they cut to another cold scene. It's definitely jarring. I fast-forwarded through the narration of a man being strangled to death - was that really necessary?

I had the same reaction as this reviewer when that scene appeared in the first show: I thought, why the hell would they make this series so dark and doom its (presumed) protagonist from the very first episode? I don't see how the "murder thing" can go away now, with the wiretaps and the other guy cooperating.…

Why did they play it, then? I thought it was really out of place. No wonder, it was from two years later.

Funny, I find the comments far better than the reviews. Especially the comments last week. More agreement among the commenters than between them and the reviewer. I suspect the reviewers don't want to be too harsh or critical given the talent and the producers involved, but really, it was so gratifying to read things…

The voice was dead-on. The music was almost. The hair, way too much of a fro for Marley. The last song, Get Up, Stand Up, started to really drag, perhaps on purpose, as the next scene was the cops scooping up Ritchie off the street.

They did that on SNL as well.