Vinyl is the 2016 HBO series created by Mick Jagger, Martin Scorsese, Rich Cohen and Terence Winter, with Olivia Wilde as Devon Finestra, a former model with old ties to Andy Warhol’s Factory, married to Bobby Cannavale’s record executive Richie, who runs his label on cocaine and bad decisions.
Richie Finestra runs a record label on cocaine and bad decisions, and the only thing he ever gets right is going home to his wife. What happens in Vinyl Devon and Richie are the kind of married couple who fight like it is a contact sport and make up the same way. Across the first
Devon Finestra walks into a room full of artists wearing a dress, and a few minutes later the dress is on the floor and she is the most interesting thing in New York. What happens in Vinyl Devon is a former model and actress with old ties to Andy Warhol’s Factory, married to a record
In the episode-six loft scene she drops her dress in a room full of artists and becomes the most interesting thing in New York, and the bedroom scenes are the marriage itself, two people who fight like it is a contact sport and make up the same way. Wilde and Cannavale look like a couple with a long, complicated history, and I would happily sit through every minute of it again.