Vinyl (TV Series) E.A.B. (2016) User Reviews

The positive vibes we've been waiting for.

[raythegamerz · 9/10 · 4 April 2016]

Agony, all those previous seven episodes mostly shows us about. Now this, the eighth episode, finally able to balance it with some progressions.

It has been depressing just to see people get depressed, and music developments in this show were somehow jeopardized by all that. How Richie Finestra gone through his miserable decisions left Vinyl's captivating music tracks as ornaments, which luckily though, keep some audiences to still have the pleasure of hearing the show. E.A.B. however, did a splendid job bringing fresh air as it was a well written and directed episode.

We would still encounter devastating problems, but at least there were cheers between miseries; ones that not created by drug effects. Talents been discovered and in development. American Century which soon become Alibi Records finally found their rays of hope to save them out of extinction. The Nasty Bits was getting their major role in the company and in the show itself, and all other stuffs within surely brought a new chemistry between characters. Also the choice of songs was marvelous as always, making E.A.B. the strongest episode yet.

The waiting of further episodes has never been become this interesting. Rock n Roll and other stuffs in Vinyl are a rare treat, so I personally hope that further episodes will be just as amazing or even better.

Episode 8 - E.A.B.

[Prismark10 · 6/10 · 28 October 2017]

The best bit in this episode was Lester Grimes playing the The Nasty Bits the history of rock and blues in three simple chords and connecting with Kip. These three chords that punk in the UK would later embrace as a reaction to progressive rock music.

Ritchie and the record company has money problems no doubt related to the money he screwed from his associates in Vegas and gambled away. He now has to make a deal with the mob to obtain money. The police are also on to him as his office was bugged.

Ritchie's estranged wife wants to kick-start her bohemian lifestyle in Chelsea but the kids throw a cat down a stairwell in order to see if it had nine lives. However the scenes at a nightclub where a pre fame Bob Marley was playing and Bruce Springsteen was hanging about amounted to little as I really did not care for the actor doing a bad John Lennon impression.

Both Zak and Ritchie might have discovered budding talent but they are now in deep with the mob and Ritchie has ended up in the police cell. I do not think Ritchie has hit rock bottom yet but although a musically strong episode I felt the narrative it is still a bit all over the place.