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Vinyl works to clean up its own mess in the first-season finale
First, the good news: It looks like Vinyl’s correcting some of its missteps. Richie’s clean and sober (for now), and…
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Richie Finestra’s more interesting when he doesn’t fight on Vinyl
When Zak beats the shit out of Richie in an elevator at the end of ”Rock And Roll Queen,” he may as well be a stand-in…
B+
Vinyl keeps it about the music, maaan, in the strongest episode of the season
At the risk of simplifying the series’ strengths, I’m going to call it: Tonight’s episode of Vinyl works because it…
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Even Elvis can’t keep Richie’s redemption song from sounding flat on Vinyl
HBO’s Inside The Episode blurbs aren’t always worth watching for review purposes, as so many of them simply rehash what…
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Richie sees dead people and other assorted clichés on a still engaging episode of Vinyl
Am I right in assuming that most of you figured out Ernst was dead (or at least imaginary) from the moment Richie…
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Richie Finestra’s likability gets pushed to the limit on an ugly episode of Vinyl
As TV-critic godfather Alan Sepinwall pointed out in his book The Revolution Was Televised, so many great television…
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Vinyl does away with theme and turns up the music-industry hustle in “The Racket”
Over the first few episodes, Vinyl has wanted the viewer to know that, for all of its power, rock music in the 1970s…
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Vinyl suffers from Forrest Gump syndrome in an episode with too many famous people
Like Vinyl, Terence Winter’s Boardwalk Empire regularly featured its fictional characters rubbing elbows with…
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Vinyl’s Richie Finestra flirts with both the light and the dark in the show’s second episode
When Richie Finestra returns to the American Century offices after the events in the first episode of Vinyl, his rock…
B
Vinyl’s pilot has more to say about its conflicted protagonist than about music
One of the most accurate points made by HBO’s Show Me A Hero is that historical figures don’t always recognize how…
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Vinyl has the perfect look and sound, if not always the rhythm
As it stands, The Leftovers is the most spiritual show on HBO’s schedule. But if it holds that God is in the details, Vi…