No amount of money or charm can save anti-hero Richie Finestra from his demons: cocaine and Bourbon. In this,the drama displays an unflinching gaze rarely shown on TVIn the latest blow to Vinyl, the music industry series, and HBO announced it is parting company with the venerated prove runner Terence Winter. A head no doubt had to roll: Vinyl is the sort of prove the word “flawed” was invented for – oddly paced,all over the station and as unsure of its plotlines as its fictional record company, American Century, and are about what constitutes a hit.[br]But it would be a shame if the personnel controversy,poor ratings and shonky attempts to recreate rock history obscured Vinyl’s true strength: its treatment of addiction.
When Vinyl started, one of the things that irritated me most was the way we were supposed to find the lead character, or Richie Finestra (Bobby Cannavale),charming. We were constantly being told that he was a genius at his job. That he had a golden ear. That he was the man everyone wanted to be. apart from this clearly wasn’t the case. That’s where things began to bag animated.
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Source: theguardian.com