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TV, or not TV, that is the question

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Scarlet said:
Did anyone watch Vinyl last night? I was too busy catching up with all my shows on my DVR and missed it. I know there will be several opportunities to catch it this week, or On Demand. Looks interesting. And I love me some Bobby Cannavale.
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I'm going to watch it tonight. I had hockey last night.
 
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Scarlet said:
Did anyone watch Vinyl last night? I was too busy catching up with all my shows on my DVR and missed it. I know there will be several opportunities to catch it this week, or On Demand. Looks interesting. And I love me some Bobby Cannavale.
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Not with that haircut you won't.

I caught about the first half hour of it before I went to bed, sorta half-watching while I was at the computer. I know I'll keep watching, cause hey, rock and roll. But a couple things did bug me initially. First was the association of real bands with the fictional record label. Just took me out of it, cause everyone knows that Zeppelin was on Atlantic Records. Couldn't get past my suspension of disbelief. Second was the casting of Ray Romano. Just hearing his voice and all I can picture is Everybody Loves Raymond. Again, suspension of disbelief.

And James Jagger sounds just like his father. Not sure if that's an intentional decision for his character, or that's just how he is.
 
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Better Call Saul

Loved it last year, but got busy towards the end of the season and didn't see the last 2.

Watched 6-10 over the past 24 hours and gotta say I absolutely love this show.


There are aspects of it that I like better than BB.
 
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Walking Dead last night was enjoyable.

Just when I'm getting bored with it (as I go through every season), they suck me back in with a good episode.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Better Call Saul

Loved it last year, but got busy towards the end of the season and didn't see the last 2.

Watched 6-10 over the past 24 hours and gotta say I absolutely love this show.


There are aspects of it that I like better than BB.
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Yeah as crazy as it sounds the writing is even tighter than BB. I mean, BB will always be first, but the first season of BCS felt like you had the experience of 6 seasons of BB working for it. Look at his brother, who figured when the show started that would be some crappy B-plot about his wacky brother who's afraid of electricity. And they just tied that in so beautifully, and did it over 10 episodes, such a great long game.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Better Call Saul

Loved it last year, but got busy towards the end of the season and didn't see the last 2.

Watched 6-10 over the past 24 hours and gotta say I absolutely love this show.


There are aspects of it that I like better than BB.
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I'll probably spring for the season pass. Thought about it today, and I'd rather not wait months to see it on Netflix.
 
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Ok, after watching Vinyl, all fears unfounded. The Zeppelin thing wasn't what I thought it was, and in fact, could have actually happened when their contract with Atlantic expired, before they were offered their own label, distributed by Atlantic. Ray Romano still bugs me though.

The show was great. Everything about it was top notch, from costuming and hair, to the music. Loved that Richie seemingly did have "golden ears" as they showed him hearing and being intrigued by the early rumblings of punk and rap music that he heard in the streets. The scene where he's at the NY Dolls show, rediscovering what it is about music that he loves, how it makes him feel, was wonderful. And the fact that he's so knowledgeable about it, and the different styles, from the rock that he grew up with in the '50s, to blues, r&b, pop music, and now the new stuff he's discovering.

Andrew Dice Clay was a riot. And from everything I've read about Peter Grant, they captured him perfectly.

And nice to see Ted Cruz in a cameo as one of the gangsters.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Better Call Saul

Loved it last year, but got busy towards the end of the season and didn't see the last 2.

Watched 6-10 over the past 24 hours and gotta say I absolutely love this show.


There are aspects of it that I like better than BB.
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This show is tremendous. Going live in about 3 minutes.
 
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X Files

Personally, I think this is one of the better episodes of the "event." Nice mirroring on the agents' dynamics, and the Mulder Mushroom sequence...hilarious and WTeFF at the same time. :D

Next week is full-bore gub'ment episode; should be interesting to say the least.
 
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rufus said:
Ok, after watching Vinyl, all fears unfounded. The Zeppelin thing wasn't what I thought it was, and in fact, could have actually happened when their contract with Atlantic expired, before they were offered their own label, distributed by Atlantic. Ray Romano still bugs me though.

The show was great. Everything about it was top notch, from costuming and hair, to the music. Loved that Richie seemingly did have "golden ears" as they showed him hearing and being intrigued by the early rumblings of punk and rap music that he heard in the streets. The scene where he's at the NY Dolls show, rediscovering what it is about music that he loves, how it makes him feel, was wonderful. And the fact that he's so knowledgeable about it, and the different styles, from the rock that he grew up with in the '50s, to blues, r&b, pop music, and now the new stuff he's discovering.

Andrew Dice Clay was a riot. And from everything I've read about Peter Grant, they captured him perfectly.

And nice to see Ted Cruz in a cameo as one of the gangsters.
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I liked the episode a lot as well. Only concern, though, and that's where it's going to go. If it's just "wash, rinse, dry, repeat" for 10 episodes, I'll probably watch it for the music and the visuals, but I'm going to be disappointed.
 
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SJHovey said:
I liked the episode a lot as well. Only concern, though, and that's where it's going to go. If it's just "wash, rinse, dry, repeat" for 10 episodes, I'll probably watch it for the music and the visuals, but I'm going to be disappointed.
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We'll see, but I liked episode 1. Every other song on the soundtrack has some sort of important memory attached. Now I know why the Boomers love their sad sack Big Chill et al.
 
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I've seen about 90 minutes of the first episode, will finish the remainder tonight. Listening to Tom Barnard this morning, he used to work in the record business back in the 70s into the early 80s with Capitol. His impression was that the company was entirely unrealistic because there weren't enough gangsters, sex or drugs involved in the show.
 
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Kepler said:
We'll see, but I liked episode 1. Every other song on the soundtrack has some sort of important memory attached. Now I know why the Boomers love their sad sack Big Chill et al.
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Memory for you?
 
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It's Scorcese. There was still plenty of sex, drug and 'splosions. Marty aint subtle.
 
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Kepler said:
It's Scorcese. There was still plenty of sex, drug and 'splosions. Marty aint subtle.
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Like I said, if Scorcese ain't showing enough sex, drugs or gangsters, that must have been one hell of a time period in real life.

The one thing I really liked about it was that the live performances actually sounded like they were a live performance. Not like the movie CBGB, where you have this grungy club setting, and then the performance starts, and it's the actors miming to a track from the studio album. Completely destroyed the atmosphere they were trying to create.
 
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rufus said:
Like I said, if Scorcese ain't showing enough sex, drugs or gangsters, that must have been one hell of a time period in real life.
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Tom Barnard was saying that guys from the record companies would drop off albums for DJs to play back then that didn't have money stuffed in them, it was whatever drug that station's DJ wanted. And then there was the cash, too. Hosing over the music acts with the recoupable expenses was just as bad as they described - performers getting absolutely hosed over if they weren't huge successes.
 
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