Simon and Pelecanos keep saying it’s about the women, too, in the episode’s behind-the-episode featurette and post-finale interviews. Tbh leaves a sour taste in my mouth given that the show concluded with an extended sequence devoted to telling us in no uncertain terms that this was really Vince/Franco’s story all…

Also I know Bobby actually did have a union job on the Deuce, but I enjoyed his line about getting his union job back and took it as a shout out to Frank Sobotka. 

Yuck, that ending. That makeup was SO BAD, and I never notice that kind of shit.

Loved this show but I can’t believe that no talent, sexual assaulting ass-clown Franco got the last word, in a truly abysmal old man performance. The real ending was in that newspaper article. It should’ve been about Eileen’s work being rediscovered. Should’ve been HER walking through Time Square reminiscing.  Such a…

“...it’s disappointing that Abby’s story gets a little shortchanged in the finale.”

Right?!? Loved that Easter egg.  That was worth all the Vincent in the ending to me.  And the game doesn’t end, it just changes.

Loved the subtle reference to the wire. Black Frankie going off to Baltimore to help his cousin Nathan in the Lexington terrace projects. Nathan barksdale was the real person that Avon was supposedly based on.

If there’s one character I hated, it was Abby. Abby was that generation’s version of the misguided millennial. She thought she was so smart, but wasted half her adult life away - and most of it promoting the wrong cause. She puts all that focus on “the gun”, when in reality the gun itself is meaningless. Vincent…

The words icon and diva are oft bestowed upon those who cannot hold a candle to Ms. Norman.

I heard her sing on a number of occasions. I also had the honor of meeting her once. She filled the room with her presence, and her strength of character was matched by her graciousness. She will be missed.

Will you kids go watch A Woman Called Moses and stop with the Drunk History shit? Yeah it was funny but damn, I swear, it drives me crazy that Tyson, as legendary as she is, respected as she is, IMO doesn’t get the respect due for her work.

Issa flop. One well deserved by Erivo and her condescension. 

It’s not just black folks with that narrative, either. As you said, the NFL chose to leak his ownership stake as well as refuse to divulge any details about what the social justice piece would actually consist of. I’m going to bet there weren’t a whole lot of folks of color in the media offices who actually crafted…

Dang. Jay-Z went full sell out. You never go full sell out! 

Probably because he’s a conservative hack dressed in libertarian clothes trying to get black people to buy into supply-side economics, racial pseudoscience and the merit myth.

Jay has shown what he about many many many times before. It’s way past time we start believing what we’re seeing.

This makes me think Jay Z and the NFL have been close to partnering for a long time, and that he just had to “wait for this whole Kaepernick thing to blow over” before he could get his dirty NFL money.

This is interesting, given Jay-Z’s role (as her then-manager) in strong-arming M.I.A. into a bad settlement when the NFL sued her for $16.6M for flipping the bird at the 2012 Super Bowl halftime show. Jesus fucking wept; anyone with even a passing familiarity with her would know she was a loose cannon (and I mean that…

Black people who continued to watch NFL games caught hell from a lot of the Black media but Jay-Z is being treated by some of that very same Black media like he’s doing something revolutionary?