HBO's Vinyl - Scorsese / T.Winter / Mick Jagger and sex, drugs & rock'n'roll in the 70s
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[B]Coming 2016:[/B]
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[quote]From Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, this new drama series is set in 1970s New York. A ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop, the show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, played by [B]Bobby Cannavale[/B], who is trying to save his company and his soul without destroying everyone in his path. Additional series regulars include [B]Olivia Wilde, Ray Romano, Ato Essandoh, Max Casella, P.J. Byrne, J.C. MacKenzie, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Juno Temple, Jack Quaid, James Jagger[/B] and [B]Paul Ben-Victor.[/B] Executive produced by Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger, Terence Winter, Rick Yorn, Victoria Pearman, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, John Melfi and Allen Coulter. [I][B]Winter serves as showrunner.[/B][/I][/quote]
The crew is basically the same as behind Boardwalk Empire.
In short guys - [b]it was fucking awesome.[/b] Two hour premiere directed by Scorsese felt exactly like a feature film from Scorsese. But it serves its point - I fucking can't wait till the next week to see more, more, more please just give me more.
First I thought it's going to be like Boardwalk Empire, since it was coming from the same technical genius, but actually it's not, [B]it's spiritual successor of Mad Men.[/B] Though obviously Mad Men dealt with bourbon, cigarttes, and creating ads, while Vinyl is more with booze, cocaine, heroin, and producing music. And the soundtrack is brilliant if you love all kinds of music, I actually don't think there was more than 15 minutes without some 70s classic hit blasting from the screen.
My biggest worry is that with next episode some of the charm will be lost with Scorsese leaving the director's seat. Some of the shots look like they were borrowed from Taxi Driver (honestly I'm not sure if it weren't the case). But the story seems so engaging and has so much potential that I hope it won't be the case.
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[I]"Skip, I don't fuckin' care if you gotta ship entire fuckin' truckloads of fuckin' Captain Beefheart to an empty fuckin' warehouse in Queens, I want you to inflate the fuck out our record sales!!!"[/I]
The episode was pretty good. Felt more like a movie, I'd say.
Mad Men on coke. That's enough to say but the series holds on its own. I'm glad that HBO decided to extend it for Season 2, because the only flaw in S1 is having to introduce all the elements of the world (AFAIR Mad Men had the same problem in the first season), but the execs have faith in the potential.
And the music is godlike
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Watched all three episodes last night and gotta say that this is something fresh and new in my books. I like.
Just finished episode 5. Holy shit this tv show is like a fucking train on thrusters. It never stops.
Love the main actor, he is perfect in this role.
Can't wait for next week.
The guy who played David Bowie in the recent episode looked so much like him that I had to pause to make sure.
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I hated the "Life on Mars" cover though. Sounded like an American Idol tryhard.
[QUOTE=Kindlinho;49988325]I hated the "Life on Mars" cover though. Sounded like an American Idol tryhard.[/QUOTE]
Because it wasn't meant to emulate the older song but it was supposed to be a true cover. I guess that kid will play a larger role in episodes to come.
[url=http://deadline.com/2016/04/vinyl-showrunner-terence-winter-exits-hbo-1201734449/]Terence Winter has left the project due to creative differences.[/url]
What the fuck, that was his dream project.
Damn, hope that doesnt doom the whole show.
Go to Deadwood or Shadow Country projects thx
So what did you guys think of the finale?
It ended with no idea of where to go from here. This season was slightly a mess, which is not unusual for large ensembles without normally structured main arc. What I dislike was they've tried to pull reverse Mad Men and basically skip three seasons of character development, throwing the viewer at the deep water. Like I give a fuck about what happens to the annoying white boy with no defining features. The only character developed properly was [b]Zak[/b]. On the other hand, Richie Finestra got overdeveloped and literally have no idea where you can go from here with his character.
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Actually, my main grip with Finestra is this: we're led to believe that he's the Messiah of the Ear, with his golden ear. The problem is, he never has his golden moment, like Don Draper had in the pilot and every other important episode. He fucks up constantly and never has any redemption, he just makes smaller fuck ups. Unless 'The Nasty Bits' are already supposed to be that, but sorry, that didn't hold me, that didn't worked for me, not for a moment was I taken by that music nor felt it through my heart. It would be better if instead of going for fictional band and pretending they are important, they were to take some liberty with existing one. Like start with Queen and Freddie Mercury, show how AC makes them stars, and then I would believe - yep, that's history changing.
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