This episode was utterly horrific. This was quite possibly the most horrific hour of television I've ever sat through. This episode drags genuine New York icons through the mud in order to make Richie Finestra seem more interesting and important, and it fails miserably on all fronts.

"Vinyl" is just a warmup for Scorsese's next big HBO music project, which is tentatively titled "The Compact Disc."

Carrie: I am the problem. I bring down everyone around me. I have this opportunity now to just go away and take the problems with me.

Great episode, this season is running on all cylinders now. Homeland is back to its winning formula of advancing plot lines faster than expected. The big reveal that Allison is a Russian double agent, just moments before the General's plane blew up, and just a week after revealing she's sleeping wth Saul, puts this…