Hercules Has Seen HBO’s Jagger-Scorsese Collaboration VINYL!! Read the full article on AICN I am – Hercules!! I really want to love HBO’s “Vinyl”; it comes from the great Terence Winter, who created and oversaw – in concert with HBO and Martin Scorsese – all five seasons of the beloved “Boardwalk Empire”. But the new series, set in the New York music industry of 1973, feels at times like something someone found at the bottom of a remainder bin. Four hours into “Vinyl,” I’m not yet finding characters I love as much as Richard Harrow, Arnold Rothstein, Nelson Van Alden, Angela Darmody, Chalky White or the Brothers Thompson.