After backtracking on all the bad Sopranos storylines, the creators let our monstrous, coked-out anti-hero Richie Finestra emerge triumphant

This week gave us a troublesome threesome, a broken man’s revenge and a bat being attacked with a tennis racket. But by far the biggest drama happened in real life … with Terence Winter removed as showrunner

Richie Finestra’s world falls apart – and everyone else flourishes. Plus, this week’s bizarre celebrity spot is John Lennon, who is cunningly photographed by Devon on his infamous Lost Weekend

Richie sobers up and takes an away-day in Las Vegas to try and woo The King on to his roster. Bizarre cameos, it seems, are the absolute heart of this series

Devon is holed up in the Chelsea Hotel, so Richie’s on a bender with a hallucination of his dead partner-in-crime – plus there’s that awkward Bowie cameo. Is Vinyl letting loose, or going too far?

The women come centre-stage this week, as HBO plays up the sexiness and the trashiness of their show that’s basically Dallas but with a bigger budget

The jokes come thick and fast, the sprinklers rain down and Richie Finestra goes full Basil Fawlty as the show hits its stride – but will it last?

There is absolutely no one to root for in Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese’s frustrating prestige drama – but stick with it for the creepy cameos

Richie’s crisis is in full swing and Devon recalls her 60s heyday at Andy Warhol’s Factory. It’s seductive stuff – but is it all too strange and self-indulgent?

This new rock’n’roll drama, created by Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger, is pure culture porn – but it could do without all the gangsterisms