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Just saw the trailer for this. Apparently the first episode aired last week. Anyone catch it? If it's any good, I hope they keep it around for longer than 1 season. I was so bummed out when HBO cancelled Vinyl after it's first season.

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I taped it, have yet to watch as I forgot all about it in the recent craziness!
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Aquamarine wrote:I taped it, have yet to watch as I forgot all about it in the recent craziness!

I just downloaded the first episode and gave it a watch. It starts out slow. Will have to see how the second episode is. I wonder how true the plot lines are with Johnny Cash, Elvis and JLL
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I just learned Pokey makes an appearance as Hank Snow in one of these episodes . . .
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I love it. Will definitely be watching. Also makes me want to head down to Memphis again. Haven't been since that Jack show years ago.
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woodisgood wrote:I just learned Pokey makes an appearance as Hank Snow in one of these episodes . . .
That's pretty cool. Speaking of random appearances on shows...a guy that works at TMR Nashville (long hair and scruffy...James??) has an appearance in Nashville the tv show as Juliette Barnes' moms drug addict boyfriend hahaha. We were talking to him at the TMR pressing opening and he was telling us. Checked it out and it's legit.
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shaneoftheroad wrote:I love it. Will definitely be watching. Also makes me want to head down to Memphis again. Haven't been since that Jack show years ago.
Have you been keeping up with it?

Just mentioned in the other thread that a few weeks ago was the episode where Elvis records My Happiness at Sun Records.. Kinda cool to watch and have that tie to TMR.

Pokey LaFarge is also playing Hank Snow on the show and has been a fair regular character lately.

The show started out a bit slow but I have been really hooked lately.
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The only thing worse than the acting and choppy story lines are the historical inaccuracies. This show is like most of the programing on CMT, just plain terrible. I watched all six episodes and refuse to watch it anymore.

*Pokey's character is Hank Snow, not Hank Williams.
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edwardcarlton wrote:The only thing worse than the acting and choppy story lines are the historical inaccuracies. This show is like most of the programing on CMT, just plain terrible. I watched all six episodes and refuse to watch it anymore.

*Pokey's character is Hank Snow, not Hank Williams.
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The acting is fine. The guy playing Elvis completely embodies him, same with Jerry Lee and Johnny Cash. The historical inaccuracies are nearly criminal, I'll give you that much. haha It's certainly revisionist history at best but it's still an enjoyable show.
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shaneoftheroad wrote:The acting is fine. The guy playing Elvis completely embodies him, same with Jerry Lee and Johnny Cash. The historical inaccuracies are nearly criminal, I'll give you that much. haha It's certainly revisionist history at best but it's still an enjoyable show.
It's TV. I never expected the storylines to be historically accurate. It's just an interesting show to watch. As was Vinyl when it was on. Not accurate, but interesting to say the least.

For those of you who don't like it because it's inaccurate, there's always teen mom and the Kardashians. I hear it's pretty true to their lives.. :lol:
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