I haven't liked an entire album by Ryan since "Heartbreaker." Until now.

Unless you were a young, n'eastern kid, circa early '70's, when the charts and radio stations were full of the likes of The Hustle, Olivia Newton-John, The Captain and Tenille, and Glenn Campbell, you can't even begin to understand what it felt like going to one of these concerts and hear music like this for the first…

Number One thing I took away from that episode is when the HBO guy reminded everyone that HBO is not about what's commercial. I wanted to hug the guy when he said that.

Won't be that long of a wait. The Knick starts back up soon.

David Simon is the man. It always begins and ends with the writing. I'm already mourning the end of this thing. Even though it's only been 2 weeks/4 episodes, I am so completely invested.

My bad. I wish I had the time to rewatch episodes.

We don't really know that Darlene is Elliott's biological sister. In the big "sister" reveal, Elliott seems to come to an encouraged conclusion more than a remembering. There's no pics on that disk with Darlene, I can't remember Darlene ever referring to Elliott's Dad as her's, also, and Angela's "other" as Darlene…

This show is very much about viewer involvement, also. That's not audience fabricated nor is it accidental.

The whole Shayla arc felt "off." Could be his subconscious constructed the entire morphine binge and related characters with his psych meds. The detox was actually him cold-turkeying the psych meds, and then once off them started to remember things… like the fSociety. who MR was, etc.

I waited until I read this entire thread, hoping I'd feel otherwise, but I don't, so I'm just going to say it: this episode felt very anticlimactic to me. All along, it seemed the most obvious and logical conclusion was that MR was in Elliott's head, but this show not only seemed too smart for the obvious, but it was…

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When Angela's father informed her that Darlene had stopped by, the actresses's delivery of "You *saw* her?" placed a definite emphasis upon "saw." As if Angela found it shocking that her father could see Darlene. Maybe she was just surprised that Darlene came to the house, or maybe her Dad was telling Angela her other…

For those interested, an excerpt of Lisa Belkin's book is available online: Chapter One.

Not 10 minutes into this, and I felt an indescribable sense of viewer comfort.. like giving myself over into the skilled hands of a master. There's something (besides an immeasurable quality) in the way all of Simon's shows are filmed that are specific to him, and which I can't quite isolate. It's a definite style…

I might agree about the "heavy use" of Springsteen in any other period piece of this era, but here it's appropriateness is undeniable. Besides geographically (Yonkers is literally right across the river from NJ), and chronologically (it was the apex of Springsteen's most universal appeal), his music was unique in that…

"And like much of Simon's work it makes everyone human even when they seem to be in the wrong."

I know I'm in the vast minority, but I'd have passed on that (at the time), too.

I haven't done my rewatch, yet, so maybe I'm misremembering this, but in his presented incarnation did Elliott and his dad ever make up? Didn't his dad stop acknowledging him after Elliott spilled the beans about his illness?

Ooo. That saved me a lot of rewatch hours. Thanks!

They so need to bring Carolyn Strauss back as president of the network.