Richie actually drinks Tab because he's trying to stay healthy.

As Andrew Dice Clay said to the girl who just wanted to be held: "Well, ya got the bonus plan, baby!"

In season two, Ritchie Finestra is given two pills that give him superhuman abilities just like Jason Bourne: a red pill that allows them to do coke 24 hours a day, and a blue pill that stops them from being a total moron.

The production only cost $10 million. The other $90 million was for all the blow.

In order for there to be "creative differences," don't you have to do something creative in the first place?

Since Vinyl’s nickname is “Game of Groans,” it makes perfect sense that Winter isn’t coming after all.

Kenneth Choi, the actor who played Judge Ito, not only looked the same but sounded and acted like him too. Emmys all around.

Vinyl just can't help itself when it comes to being "in the know" about music legends, but it always comes off as a wax museum version of tabloid history. That scene was like, "Look, there's John Lennon with his other Asian girlfriend. Let's go take a picture and sell it to a magazine to make some money." In the same…

Agreed, there are way too many characters vying for the Rock & Roll legends throne. Based on how miserable the people at the top seem to be, and how many 1970's cliches they use every five minutes, HBO should just call this show "Game Of Groans."

I guess a bump is better than a binge, but any coke at this point seems pointless. Maybe they could just show Richie surreptitiously rubbing some white powder off his nose instead of giving us the full blown toot. At this point it's as if this show is being sponsored by the Colombian Cocaine Cartel, and they sure are…

Agreed, it was the best episode so far — the non-Richie centric format with lots of different characters doing interesting and inspired things works. But watch it again, I timed out one coke binge every 10 minutes, you could practically set you watch by it at every 10 minute mark, including Clark doing coke with his…

You're both right: Yes, the show has been the biggest disappointment of the season, based on its pedigree alone, and Yes, it has been entertaining in many ways. But not until this week did is make any sense in terms of storytelling or character development, or maybe it's because they have dragged out the plot line of…

Agreed, Vinyl's point of view is completely Rolling Stoned. I can see why you dropped this this tiring show. Yet this episode unintentionally reminds us how white artists and producers borrowed and stole the work of black artists by using the trope of the clueless white guy who "discovers" something new. First when…

Fans of 70s rock 'n' roll and people who just want to watch good TV have been hanging on for dear life for weeks now, waiting for Vinyl to finally turn the corner. After watching the show focus too much on Ritchie Finestra, the out-of-control coke fiend of a record producer who already has three deaths on his hands…

Oh. My God. That was perfection. The AVClub needs to find a way to give this episode an A+. This was one of the best acted, best written, sharpest and most riveting hours of television I have ever seen. After last week's jury duty episode, I almost expected a little bit of a letdown this week, as they begin to wrap…

"Self-destruction as entertainment" is the perfect way to describe Vinyl. It has so many potentially great elements, the acting, The Music, and the production people obviously went to great lengths to get it all right. But the writers don't seem to have a clue. Then you watch the opening credits and see an endless…

HBO made the same mistake with True Detctive Season 2. It's as if they took all the cliched formulas of the genre and tried to turn the them on their head, but in the process they just created brand new cliches, and TD2 became a parody of itself. HBO misses every time they try to outsmart the audience.

And then lose it all in Vegas, baby, 'cause that's how Ritchie rolls.

Agreed about Andrea, she would rock this show. She has more charisma than all the guys put together. And having Richie produce a new Elvis album and release original songs that could actually chart on iTunes would have been a master stroke. But that would never happen with this show.

I thought after the first episode when the Mercer Music building falls on Ritchie and he walks away that we were in for a show that was less concerned with historical realism than with a story we had never seen before.