Record label owner Richie Finestra hears the future of rock and tries to get it down on Vinyl.

Vinylseason 1, episode 1.

ThisVinylreview contains spoilers, lots of spoilers.

The pilot of HBOsVinylis a Martin Scorsese movie.

The only thing missing fromVinyls Pilot, is an ending.

Because its only the beginning.

Disco meets rock just like the twist bumped into blues and punk gets a meeting with the godfather.

A Mormon with bad asthma and a whole lotta teeth.

Finestra is a long time music man.

Finestra has an ear thats hungry for music.

Sadly hes also got a nose that has its own appetites.

Finestra is a former user.

Like Christopher onThe Sopranos, hes always around booze and drugs and veers around it by sheer will.

Thau quit his job at Paramount Records six months earlier.

He was managing theNew York Dollsalmost before they got off stage.

Ray Romanos Zak Yankovich isnt really that far removed from hisEverybody Loves Raymondrole.

Whats not to like?

The guys got the hundred dollar handshake down and gets to do physical humor.

Silver could turn out to be the bear.

Casella is always fun to watch and here hes got a lot to show.

Hes going to be trouble and its going to be fun.

Silver is on the same page as Finestra but hes reading the paperback edition.

Olivia Wilde is scrubbed clean as Finestras wife Devon.

Finestras been doing his own dusting.

Byrne plays the company mouthpiece Scott Levitt.

He trades his mile high club mileage for royalty points.

Mick Jaggers son James plays Kip Stevens, the Nasty Bits singer who is a little out of sequence.

He is discovered based on his look by Jamie Vine, played by Juno Temple, the coffee-with-an-eightball-sweetener girl.

Scorsese intrudes each of the players like they are goodfellas who didnt get the good seats at the Copa.

Everyone has the potential to be even looser cannons than Finestra.

Andrew Clay is unrecognizable as Frank Buck Rogers.

Until he opens his mouth, then he rolls out the Dice.

The second time is pure gore, like a seventies horror movie.

Clay digs deep into that dirty nursery rhyme street performer and pulls out a heavy performance.

The kiss is brilliant and proves you cant keep a hard man down.

TheNew York Dollswerent playing whenthe Mercer Arts Center collapsed.

And they have witnesses to prove it.

The roof falling in on Finestras head is symbolic.

Rock and roll isnt a genre of music.

It is a religion, as sacred as youth and with fewer restrictions.