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Originally Posted by To Be Quite Honest
This is going to be a very entertaining show. First off, it's Scorsese produced and *directed affair (*First Episode Only) which means that it's character driven. If you find it slow you may not like character stories. It's very much like Boardwalk Empire, except that with Boardwalk Empire, you might have liked the subject matter more. Will it be as great as Boardwalk Empire? In quality, yes, but the story will be exaggerated and if that bothers you, you might as well watch something else.
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I didn't mind that it was character driven, I minded that the characters were a sort of shallow parody, it was WKRP Cincinnati with drugs and tits. What irked was that the artists were real people, if you are going to put Robert Plant or Ruth Brown into a show they should be moderately believable, at least subtle. Robert Plant was an accountant before he joined Led Zeppelin, his brief portrayel was as a Buffon, ditto Peter Grant their manager, it was a one dimensional portrayel of them.
They would have been better to go the Almost Famous route, which was also about Led Zeppelin but they had enough sense to turn them into an imaginary band.