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The series focuses on Richie Finestra, a New York music executive in the late 1970s who hustles to make a career out of the city's diverse music scene. Vinyl takes viewers behind the scenes of the record industry in the 1970s, when glam rock, punk, disco and rap were all just starting to emerge.
As a team, Scorsese and Winter found greatness in Boardwalk Empire. Maybe they'll eventually find it here, too. I just wish they'd found it sooner. Bottom line, a disappointment.
There's barely time to recover as every scene attempts a daring or inventive move of some sort. There aren't many shows you can say that about, which makes "Vinyl," even with its flaws, a success.
Make it past the sluggish pilot and Vinyl explodes into a kaleidoscopic series with enough addictive drama, believably broken characters, and general funk that it becomes very easy to forget how un-fresh it all is.