I just saw the first two episodes of Season 4. The character of Violet makes the obligatory black swipe at Elvis Presley with the charge of plagiarism of black artists. Not true. Elvis grew up in the Deep South, not far from me. He was greatly influenced by the blues scene in his native Mississippi and acknowledged that, the same way The Rolling Stones did when visiting Mississippi and Alabama to experience the blues culture. Elvis always paid royalties to those artists he covered and credited them. So the comment by Violet was unwarranted and made me dislike her immediately. As for Sydney, I believe Great Britain had a serious problem developing in Northern Ireland, where his attentions might have been appreciated more than far distant Alabama. And Amanda? She dodged a bullet.
