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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…
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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…
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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…
Max Casella on Boardwalk Empire, Doogie Howser, and horror on the Newsies set
Welcome to Random Roles, wherein we talk to actors about the characters who defined their careers. The catch: They…