Come anticipate or vaguely boggle at the VINYL rock and roll HBO series from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger & Terence Winter!

Poor Robert Plant. He didnt deserve that.

Crispin Glover's Warhol wasn't bad.

def one of my favorite onscreen portrayals. (I doubt it's veracity but sure is fun)

the two scripts so far have been godawful in a way that no amount of visuals and vibes could ever fix. which is ironic for a show whose central premise is that bands and singers and basically all music is meaningless if there isn't a "song" there. the entire show is basically the very thing that its own characters have spent three hours railing against so far.

Crispin Glover > Jared Harris > David Bowie > was that John Cameron Mitchell? fuck I used to respect him

yeah that's how I'd rank the good ones too

I don't hate the show as much as anyone here, but I haven't seen the second ep yet.

I will say that the show will definitely suffer from Studio 60 syndrome, where the comedy show that everyone was raving about in the world of the show was neither good nor funny. (Forget the cast and the hype and the acclaimed creator parallels for a sec...actually nevermind, Vinyl is Studio 60). The music on Vinyl will never be nearly as good as the people on the show act like it is and considering how clunky the writing is when they describe the actually good music featured on the show, I'm sort of scared to see that.

2nd ep of this was a lot better than the 1st

still not ~good~ exactly but ill @ least watch another

Just realized WKRP did this better.

Wolf of Wall Street was horrendous.

anyway HBO has ordered seaon 2 of this.

Tito Puente tonight, I hear.

...and Neko Case covering "Danny's Song" according to her FB.

I tried to watch another episode of this because hey Ken Marino but man this is such a disaster. For every bit that is interesting (the label henchmen arguing in the back of a limo) or ring halfway true it's immediately undercut by some hamfisted needledrop or super-clumsy Scorsese-homage shot

Lee Ranaldo, Don Fleming, and others doing music too, has me intrigued to watch more than that lame first episode, but have yet to do so

http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/1021-how-vinyl-and-lee-ranaldo-turned-a-lost-70s-act-into-tvs-next-great-fictional-band/

the actual music is godawful. and there are so many DO U SEE cuts dropped in - like, the cops are onto him about a murder cue: "Sinnerman"! duh

hamfisted needledrop

better name for the show

im starting to kinda like this show tbh

i wonder how dice feels that it lifts like 5 things from ford fairlaine... he prob feels fine i guess

well they did put him in it

ya prob a nice paycheck

i liked this new ep also, more for the wifes scenes than the coke hallucinations

I feel like every ep is worse than the one before but I keep watching it anyway, maybe bc I find the milieu interesting

I don't mind the recreated superstars at all actually, feel like you have to suspend disbelief no matter what and it's obviously cartoony so I can give it a pass

Less into a storyline that feels labored and cliched

this show is so transparently indebted to (or just copying) the Mad Men formula that it's kind of remarkable. right down to the female assistant working her way into a higher level job, the former model wife, the inscrutable genius (presumed) of the lead. but no Roger, Harry, or Pete like characters--which makes all the difference.

just watched last week's episode and boom like the fourth "fight club" plot in prestige television in the past year or so, this one handled far more hamfistedly than the leftovers or mr robot. the specter of elvis in last night's ep will keep me watching but not sure if i can stomach a second season of this

SPOILERS i guess

♪♪ Hey Girl I Want You ♪♪

I think like scene to scene the writing/dialogue on this is p strong idk canavale has grown on me also

mini spoiler but no one cares & its not important -- didn't get how the vegas casino would've known the $ canavale lost would've been tied to romanos hotel rm

literally only just realized this guy is vinny delpino omg

http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/vinyl/character/julius-silver-1024.jpg

its a casino's business to know who drops $90K in a night and figure out ways to get them back in. it would be someone's responsibility to recognize Richie and know what room he was staying in.

this is one of those shows where I watch assuming it's going to be 100% garbage and am pleasantly surprised when it's not

it's still definitely Mad Men + every "hindsight is 20/20" 70s music cliche

trying to walk that tightrope between actually being sexist and portraying women of the era as they would have lived

devon living at the chelsea and the ny scene stuff is halfway between mad men and forrest gump in terms of cheese

yeah i'm the same, Lester's EAB scene the only memorable one so far, i think. i like cannavale, romano, and parisse well enough. curious what they are working towards with clark and jorge with the DJ but expecting it to be stupid. also weird that kool herc appeared and was dropped (?) already.

I think having the actors portray actual historical figures with speaking parts is going to be kept very minimal, which I think is wise. Having John Lennon or Andy Warhol popping up every other episode to interact with the main characters would be horrible. They already pushed it with Warhol.

i kinda enjoyed the elvis scene.

heartbreaking

I've seen him in a few roles since then, but every once in a while I can only see Bobby Cannavale as "that creepy fucker from Boardwalk Empire"

God just got as far as episode 2 and thinking that watching any more might just be too much of a chore.
Nice to see teh Velvets but then again I guess they are just part of the furniture if you're thinking about rock from that time now aren't they?
& seeing somebody like the Grateful Dead might not make good tv or something.
Do wonder who else they could have used though. Hendrix doing stage showmanship? Townshend breaking a guitar?

people are still watching this?!

Has Butch Firbanks showed up yet?

some choice tidbits about the guy who plays Joe Corso
In 1998 Dietl's autobiography One Tough Cop: The Bo Dietl Story was made into the film One Tough Cop starring Stephen Baldwin
The plot in Abel Ferrara's crime drama Bad Lieutenant is mainly inspired by Dietl's 1981 investigation of the rape of a young nun
Dietl appears in commercials for Arby’s fast-food restaurants
Dietl plans to run for Mayor of New York City in 2017

Dietl is in Bad Lieutenant.

Lawsuit!

http://pitchfork.com/news/65307-dj-kool-herc-sues-hbos-vinyl/

Good riddance.

http://deadline.com/2016/06/vinyl-canceled-hbo-season-2-martin-scorsese-and-mick-jagger-1201777356/

so unbelievably terrible

makes sense now that they have another probably terrible prestige rock and roll series to replace it with

i had always planned on watching it bc i really like bobby cannavale but oh well.

just want HBO to get going on that deadwood movie now tbh.

bobby cannavale is better in every other thing he's ever done

feel bad for ray romano though

another probably terrible prestige rock and roll series

what is this I missed it

it felt like salvaging it would be really difficult but possible, so I'm a little surprised, especially since they gave a third season to the leftovers (which is obviously in another league artistically but I doubt its ratings were even as good as vinyl's).

what is this I missed it

cameron crowe's "roadies." debuts this sunday.