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re: Sun Records on CMT
Posted on 4/20/17 at 10:37 am to supatigah
Posted on 4/20/17 at 10:37 am to supatigah
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Anybody else watching it?
I've been binging it On Demand.
For a show that purports to be "historical drama", I find it to be extremely poorly researched. The actors playing Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggart look like 12 year old kids. I like the kid they have playing Elvis, but I think if Elvis were alive, he'd take exception to the way they portray Vernon Presley as a semi-abusive drunk, when by all accounts, he was pretty much a doting and supportive father.
Elvis' first hit for Sun was "That's All Right", not "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (which was the B-side). And I'm pretty sure the Presleys were too poor for Elvis to have had a motorcycle in HS. And he didn't drive a truck for Crown Electric until AFTER he had graduated from Humes High.
Colonel Tom Parker, while a scoundrel IRL, wasn't the borderline criminal the show portrays him to be.
There's a lot of other little stuff but that's the main stuff I caught.
Frankly, I'm disappointed. I went into the series WANTING to like it. I mean, I understand artistic license and all, but given the subject matter, this show could've been so much better had they just done their homework a little bit more diligently and stuck to the script. It's a fascinating enough story as it actually happened.
This post was edited on 4/20/17 at 10:38 am
Posted on 4/20/17 at 12:50 pm to Godfather1
Didn't realize someone else did blue suede shoes first
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