Now halfway through its debut season, Vinyl continues to struggle at finding a way to nail an episode in its entirety. A gut reaction might be that much of the season thus far has felt like it’s more style than substance, but that would bely the fact that the style, too, isn’t quite there. And for a series about music, it’s surprising how dissonant the whole experience of watching Vinyl is. That fatigue might not accompany a casual viewing of the series, but the more attempts made to dive in thematically and pull out ideas of what the show is
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