Slick and polished, like many of the "dying acts" on mogul Richie Finestra's fizzling record label, Vinyl's premiere episode is an impressive spectacle. Directed by Martin Scorsese - who also serves as EP, along with Mick Jagger and Boardwalk Empire's Terence Winter - Vinyl first outing places us right in the middle of an early '70s music industry sea change. Behind the eyes of a character who's already seen things change drastically over the previous two decades.
Vinyl, as a series, is deeply in love with classic rock (and its accompanying blues origins), as Bobby Cannavale's impassioned Finestra serves as our self-destructive, guilt-ridden anti-hero. A man with a "golden ear" who built a music empire while also slowly losing his soul in the process. Finestra, as a character, is never lacking in the nostalgia department, but flashbacks throughout this two-hour premiere detail his regrettable ride from an earnest music-loving barkeep to an earnest manager to...well, someone who's talked into seeing musicians and signers as commodities.
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Vinyl, as a series, is deeply in love with classic rock (and its accompanying blues origins), as Bobby Cannavale's impassioned Finestra serves as our self-destructive, guilt-ridden anti-hero. A man with a "golden ear" who built a music empire while also slowly losing his soul in the process. Finestra, as a character, is never lacking in the nostalgia department, but flashbacks throughout this two-hour premiere detail his regrettable ride from an earnest music-loving barkeep to an earnest manager to...well, someone who's talked into seeing musicians and signers as commodities.
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