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Richie delivers a bombshell that shocks prospective buyers and his partners; Devon ponders her relationship; Zak considers changing his alibi for a recent in...
Feb 29, 2016 · Vinyl: Whispered Secrets Review. Richie is cutting artists while the artists try cutting heads. Here is our review of Vinyl season 1 episode 3.
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By Matt Fowler
Posted: Feb 29, 2016 3:00 am
Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.
Richie Finestra's manic coke-fueled hustle continued this week in "Whispered Secrets," as the floundering exec made cuts to his label's catalogue, fretted and sweated over his participation in the murder of Frank "Buck" Rogers (whose body was discovered by the end), and agued with Devon about his decision to reject the buyout offer.
The show has very clearly set up The Nasty Bits as the "fresh" act that Richie will think can save his company, so a lot of these first three episodes have been a bit of a waiting game. For Richie to finally hear them play their actual sound and realize that it could be a punk goldmine. Of course, also set up is the heroin addition of James Jagger's frontman Kip. So any success on this front will mostly likely be short-lived. It's all a time bomb, basically. And a loud, raucous attempt at plate-spinning. Which can be exhausting.
The best parts of this week's chapter involved Clark's attempt to sign Alice Cooper. We're already well-aware that this show will often portray real rock stars of the era and not perpetually keep them offscreen. We've met Robert Plant. We're going to meet Bowie. This isn't an alternate timeline take on rock music. But we did spend A LOT of time Dustin Ingram's Alice. And it was really cool. Ultimately, his interest in becoming a solo act was all a long elaborate prank - part of overdue payback against Richie for not attending a meeting that Alice and his band scraped and crawled to get to years earlier.
I don't know if I'm on board, or will ever get on board, with Richie's various issues and assorted (self-caused) problems. Bobby Cannavale is tremendous performer, but there's just so much bluster to Richie. And it works to distance me from him. Like last week though, the side stories all worked well. Especially Clark's long night of drinking with ...
Feb 28, 2016 · “Whispered Secrets” also has a nifty visual bookend, as Richie starts the episode shaken up by the empty chair at an industry event that was supposed to be filled by the late Buck Rogers, and ...
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Feb 29, 2016 · In an attempt to trim the fat on some of the artists on the label, Richie decides a Christmas album will bring in the big stacks. He also drops most of the label’s artists, but keeps Johnny ...
Feb 29, 2016 · Vinyl recap: Whispered Secrets. ... Leah Greenblatt is the critic at large at Entertainment Weekly, covering movies, music, books, and theater. She is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle ...
