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- HBO
- Feb 14, 2016
- HBO
- Feb 14, 2016
Summary Set in 1970s New York City, record label president Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) tries to save his company and find the next big artist in this series from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter.
Created By: Rich Cohen, Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter
- HBO
- Feb 14, 2016
- HBO
- Feb 14, 2016
Summary Set in 1970s New York City, record label president Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale) tries to save his company and find the next big artist in this series from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter.
Created By: Rich Cohen, Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Terence Winter
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
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64% Positive
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36% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 39 Critic Reviews
71
64% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
36% Mixed
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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[Bobby Cannavale's] performance is something to behold. Music, not surprisingly, is the driving force here, used creatively and effectively in scene transitions, as scene setters and in performances.
What follows is a sometimes humorous, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes bumpy ride through the era, with a story that often seems to halt just when it’s picking up momentum. Still, every time the story falters, the characters’ and the show’s obvious love for popular music in all its forms lifts it back up.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 152 User Ratings
7.0
68% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
16% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
16% Negative
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 152 User Ratings
7.0
68% Positive
103 Ratings
103 Ratings
16% Mixed
24 Ratings
24 Ratings
16% Negative
25 Ratings
25 Ratings
One of the best shows I have seen in a long time.
Great acting, amazing music, superb writing. I would recommend this how to anyone. It is quite disappointing that the show was cancelled.
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SEASON 1
The thrill of rock 'n' roll as it took a turn toward modern punk, discovered disco and made way for hip-hop in 1970s Manhattan is captured in a fresh way in Vinyl, a tough-minded series.
Vinyl will leave you dancing to the music, but may leave you wondering why you should care.
It takes time to get going, and even four episodes in, still hasn’t really found its voice. HBO is clearly looking for another hit, but this one needs a little more time in A&R.
Scorsese and Winter and a whole host of talented episode writers and directors including Jonathan Tropper (Banshee), S. J. Clarkson, Debora Cahn, and Adam Rapp labor mightily to bend you to the will of Richie Finestra--to see and hear the music the way he does, as full of endless innovation and possibility--but too often, Vinyl traps you in a familiar cycle of sex and drugs and rock & roll.
Overall, Vinyl suffers from an inflated sense of its own importance, and a dreary lack of humor (though the pilot has a funny drive-by diss of England Dan & John Ford Coley.)
Its like the Wolf of Wall Street but with more sex and drugs.. 10/10
Its like the Wolf of Wall Street but with more sex and drugs.. 10/10
Its like the Wolf of Wall Street but with more sex and drugs.. 10/10
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SEASON 1
A disappointing but not terrible series about the music business, emphasis on business. Our flawed, fallen hero, compellingly played by Bobby Cannavale, has succumbed to greed and corruption as the head of a foundering record label, but there remains in him a purist's passion for music. Would that the same passion burned (audibly) in the creators of "Vinyl." Scenes dealing with music history are beautifully photographed but filled with such plot-bloating anachronism that I couldn't figure out what year we were in--or even which half of the 1970s, at times. Worse, some of the mash-ups and remakes of classic songs are real head-scratchers. Is that really supposed to be Bo Diddley singing "Bo Diddley" without the Bo Diddley Beat? I'm not being pedantic; I'm not a music critic or card-carrying audiophile, just someone who has loved rock for more than 50 years. Having expected a lot musically, as well as dramatically, from a Jagger/Scorsese collaboration, I found the pilot a let-down.
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SEASON 1
Assuming that they could recreate the success of Mad Men (the way he had assumed he'd be able to recreate the success of the Beatles), Mick Jagger brings us this ambitious -though ultimately tired- period piece. Bobby Cannavale's excellent performance is the best thing about this show.
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SEASON 1
WE GET IT, Richie does coke. 20/50 scenes in the show do not need to reinforce this. I'm voting a three because there are a few snippets of good writing in the show. I try to connect with Richie, but it's hard to empathize with a person who has the genetic traits of a scumbag and the lack of room for dialogue due to the drug use. Although character doesn't really make the show for me, I still have yet to understand the characters in what is close to an understandable depth.
NOTE TO Terry Winter if you're reading: huge fan of your work, I know there's been some decent well written character revelations.
COMMENTS on the pilot: I know that this story/series was originally intended for a film adaption, but a two hour pilot episode was even hard for me to bare. Not too mention, HALF of the plots spawned in the episode have been left unexploited. Don't insult the viewer with its time, dangle something in their face, and don't follow through on it.
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