Why did you cancel HBO Vinyl Martin Scorsese after one season

Martin Scorsese’s long and volatile profession in the movie It does not require any introduction. But was the legendary director involved in the TV? The answer is yes. From overseeing some episodes HBO Drama “Boardwalk Empire” To support Netflix “Pindend documents it is a city”, Scorase has worked on the means several times over the years. In 2016, even a somewhat ambitious television project participated: another HBO drama entitled “Vinyl”, which he created in cooperation with Mick Jagger, Rich Cohen, and Tirins Winter. The basic idea was to capture magic and nostalgia to the records industry in the 1970s, with a loud and possibly completion of the deadly surplus.

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However, the “Vinyl” problem-which begins strongly thanks to its SCORSEESE-is exactly the important celebration of the increase. Without a strong or big thing to influence it, the “vinyl” fell into its decorations from the taste from nostalgia to the past and began to get rid of the point after a point. While HBO initially planned to renew the offer for the second season, the decision was reflected at a later time, and the show was finally canceled after its first season of 10 episodes. To better understand HBO thinking, let’s take a look at what Casey BLOYS chief said about canceling the offer in 2016 (for each Delivery date):

“It didn’t go down. With limited resources, we did not think that the re -preparation deserves the time of the producers if it would move the needle just a little bit. We will think about things more carefully; it’s not something I would like to do or enjoy going forward.”

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While this is a understandable commercial decision, the BLOYS statement draws an incomplete image of “Vinyl”, its spirit, and what he failed to achieve despite the participation of talented creators. Moreover, our time deserves to dig deeper and examine the vision that formed the project, as well as if things will be different if Scorsese is more involved in the HBO series.

Let me put the scene for a two -hour editorial of Scorsese, Mega ($ 30 million!) For “Vinyl”. The year is in 1973, and the owner of the scholar Richie Vicra (Bobby Canaval) is about to sell his company, a decision that comes with a distribution agreement with Lid Zeppelin. This is good news, but a strange meeting with Robede Row shows that the sale may not happen at all. At this stage, Ricci is clearly tense and straightforward in not spending a fun time … until he makes a few lines of coke and watching the charming New York dolls that have the song “Personality Crisis”.

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Scorasese is weaved inside and outside moments, content, and collective spaces charged without making an effort in the episode, giving up lamentation in favor of focusing on the excessive excess in living at the present time without interest in consequences. The quiet moments of anxiety or personal conflict are sealed through the Rock & Roll scene, as Ricci simply tries to live and get what he deserves after a series of bad decisions. In the hands of a lower way, this opening match will be a width, but Scorsese makes a rich fabric that depicts a graphic culture that does not look cold or ambitious today, even with our sticky glasses.

But “Vinyl” does not try to spoil these feelings, because his amazing heart is loyal like Richie’s belief that he is no The presence of an existential crisis. With Scorsese’s involvement as a director, this vulgar, loved, unlike rotating rotation, but not in his absence. If there is anything, then “Vinyl” completely loses its way through its third episode, and avoid the story we have seen a million times before.

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Talking about any, what did Scorsese say about a short -term HBO drama? The director expressed his feelings during the 2018 Rome Film Festival, with regret that he had no practical involvement in the show (across Hollywood Observer):

“It was ultimately tragic for me because we tried for one year. We made the pilot. We tried for a year with HBO, but we could not collect creative elements together. I realized it, in order to make it correct (…) I thought I had to face each episode and be there for three to four years.”

While it is true that Scorsese’s fixed participation may have saved “Vinyl” (As he did so on “Boardwalk Empire”We need to talk about the quality of the aftermath. Are they really? Which – which bad? To be frank: no. Category numbers and viewers’ numbers were not impressive, but they were not bad either. Although Trops Trops is a renewed type, a large part of his fans enjoyed by Vinyl, with critical consensus also tends towards positivity. (The offer is currently It holds 74 % on spoiled tomatoes))

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So, what are the reasons behind the sudden cancellation of HBO “Vinyl” after it has already announced its renewal? According to Cannavale, HBO dropped the ball while planning the launch strategy, creating circumstances the crew and crew had no control. The actor also explained to Vanity Fair In 2024:

“On Monday, in the middle of the middle of these things: We really felt the circumstances we had no control. Whether it was the fact that HBO did not promote it as a new movie for Martin Scorsese; their fans did not know that he was a two-hour pilot; they really did not benefit from them; they have presented them yet” girls-they did not feel any feeling.

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Canaval also felt a person who was personally responsible for the criticisms imposed on the series, and he felt that he “left Marti” and that the opposite of HBO for the “Vinyl” renewal decision was like F ***-you. Although it is understood why Cannavale might have felt this way like this short -term symptom, responsibility should not fall on one person. Moreover, the commercial aspect of things often exceeds artistic merit or sincere effort, and this may be the case with the fate of this series.

“Vinyl” was an expensive relationship that was supposed to celebrate the charming flawed life of real musicians and the culture surrounding the music industry at that time. The failure of the offer to meet the expected expectations is badly reflected on the HBO, because it was unable to get rid of a profitable prestige drama even with the presence of such heavy names attached. Whatever the case, Richie Viserra’s dreams of a rich life have turned in a heterogeneous manner (although I do not think that many people are in arms).