>I'm an episode and a half behind (I stopped during the Elvis
>scene), but this show wants to be something it hasn't earned.
>They keep trying to do the musician vignettes like the pilot,
>but they don't seem to understand what they are for. And that
>dead friend episode was so telegraphed from the start, you
>could see that they thought they were Sixth Sensing it up when
>really, there was no reason to care.
>
>The characters aren't likeable. And not in an anti-hero type
>of way. In a "this is fucking annoying" type of way. Also,
>they have this large cast and haven't defined who any of them
>are besides Richie (who, despite Canavale's amazing
>performance, isn't half as interesting as the show thinks he
>is) and Olivia Wilde (who I know is playig a character but all
>I seem to see each week is sad Olivia Wilde).
>
>I want to like it. I forgive it way too much. But it wants to
>be heady, and it's not. It wants to be a David Milch show, but
>it's not smart enough.


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