Entourage - 2nd to last ep of season

[Almost_Famous]

Ari owned it. Drama's best of the season, too.

Kind of silly they are setting up to fire Ari ... he carries the show, and we know it won't happen.

"What if i told you I had a 22 inch **** ..."

still laughing ...

 

[Chi City 81]

This sets up the rest of the season nicely.

 

[jason_whitlock]

wow. that episode just continued a horrible season. this series reminds me of "good times" when the writers turned it into jj shouting "dy-no-mite."

this thing is so predictable that i can guarantee you that ari will be fired in the season finale.... except for ari, all of the characters have become characters of themselves.

average tv.

thank god for the 2 30-minute shows promoting season 4 of the wire... season 4 is going to be the most important tv we've seen since roots.

 

[shockey]

wow. that episode just continued a horrible season. this series reminds me of "good times" when the writers turned it into jj shouting "dy-no-mite."

this thing is so predictable that i can guarantee you that ari will be fired in the season finale.... except for ari, all of the characters have become characters of themselves.

average tv.

thank god for the 2 30-minute shows promoting season 4 of the wire... season 4 is going to be the most important tv we've seen since roots.

"characters of themselves?" good thing you have editors, eh, jason?.

 

[gandhithegreat]

wow. that episode just continued a horrible season. this series reminds me of "good times" when the writers turned it into jj shouting "dy-no-mite."

this thing is so predictable that i can guarantee you that ari will be fired in the season finale.... except for ari, all of the characters have become characters of themselves.

average tv.

thank god for the 2 30-minute shows promoting season 4 of the wire... season 4 is going to be the most important tv we've seen since roots.

I would agree that this season has been a shade weak....however, it's still better than anything on regular TV by a long way...and better than any Sex and the City bull****.

All these guys are great, Eddie Burns and DJ AM were fantastic.

 

[jason_whitlock]

damn, shock. you busted me. i'm terrible. i'm a fraud. i'm typing on a message board and screwed up. i'll never show my face again. i've become a caricature of my caricature..

 

[shockey]

damn, shock. you busted me. i'm terrible. i'm a fraud. i'm typing on a message board and screwed up. i'll never show my face again. i've become a caricature of my caricature..

lol.

 

[jason_whitlock]

entourage isn't close to sex in the city. not even close. women will be talking about that show for years... we're going to forget entourage in a couple of months. turned bad really quick.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

thank god for the 2 30-minute shows promoting season 4 of the wire... season 4 is going to be the most important tv we've seen since roots.

What?

 

[Ralph Waldo Henderson]

Good lord Jason, just stop it.

I've been watching "The Wire" the last few months on HBO On Demand. And you're right ... it's great television. Right up there with The Sopranos.

But these seasons of The Entourage and The Sopranos have been good too. Great? No. But good, fun, appointment television, and worth continuing to pay for HBO when I can hardly pay my rent.

And predictable? No. You coming on here every week to slam Entourage and the Sopranos? Yes, predictable. And tired.

 

[JayFarrar]

Yo Inky,
The Wire has black people in it, that's what makes it so important.
Of course, one could argue that Baghdad ER or even Spike Lee's coming project on New Orleans is miles ahead of some fictionalized account of inner-city life in Baltimore. But real-life sucks.
Personally, for me at least, Over There was the best hour of fictional television this past year, but it lasted a season and will not return.
Entourage is what it is, a 23-minute diversion.

 

[zeke12]

Is Whitlock's schtick tired?

As tired as the rhetorical question device I'm going to use for the rest of this thread.

Is the Wire as good as he says? Yes. Is it because the cast is mostly black? Mostly not.

Are Entourage and the Sopranos as bad as he says this season? No.

Was Sex and the City anything but utterly terrible the last 2-3 seasons? No.

Is any of this going to keep him from needling some of you, who seem to beg to be needled? Hell no.

 

[nafselon]

thank god for the 2 30-minute shows promoting season 4 of the wire... season 4 is going to be the most important tv we've seen since roots.

That's some ignorant **** right there.

 

[Lucas Wiseman]

I actually enjoyed the episode... of course, I don't take it nearly as seriously as the rest of you guys. Ari is by far my favorite on the show... they could do a show with just him and base it around his other clients.

 

[jason_whitlock]

what does the wire having a black cast have to do with my opinion of the show?

seriously. can someone explain this?

i know that several of you are simple minded and that's the main reason you remain anonymous, but the race of the cast has nothing to do with my opinions of tv shows.

also, it's a well-known, accepted fact that season 6 of the sopranos took a big step back... i'm far from the only person who has ripped season 6.... and just about all the people i know connected to acting and television agree that season 3 of entourage is poor. my opinion of these shows is not outside the mainstream.

 

[Stupid]

"important TV" is an oxymoron

 

[auggie_ben_doggie]

wow. that episode just continued a horrible season. this series reminds me of "good times" when the writers turned it into jj shouting "dy-no-mite."

What about not watching what you consider to be a horrible show? Is that something you might be interested in, Jason?

 

[Double Down]

Yo Inky,
The Wire has black people in it, that's what makes it so important.
Of course, one could argue that Baghdad ER or even Spike Lee's coming project on New Orleans is miles ahead of some fictionalized account of inner-city life in Baltimore. But real-life sucks.
Personally, for me at least, Over There was the best hour of fictional television this past year, but it lasted a season and will not return.
Entourage is what it is, a 23-minute diversion.

Either you've never actually seen the Wire, or you're a moron. There is no in between after a statement like that. I'm as ****ing white as Juneau on Christmas, and I'll still say The Wire is light years better than Over There, which deteriorated into one gigantic cliche' after three episodes.

Whitlock, basically, what they're saying is that you like the The Wire because it has black people in it, and so you're somehow obligated to support it and pimp it, because black people aren't allowed to like something on merit, I guess, especially if it involves black actors.

Entourage has turned into a show for ass slappers and frat boys who like to make **** jokes, and imagine themselves as being funnier, smarter, cooler and better looking than they really are. Basically, it's Adventures of the Funkybunch, if the Funkybunch could have had their life idealised on screen by Ted Demme before he got all coked up and died trying to grab offensive rebounds.

As for The Sopranos, I have defended that show to the bitter end, but several of the final episodes in Season 6 were not up to the standards of the first five seasons. The final episode, especially, was poorly written, poorly directed, and poorly edited. The beginning of the season was great, the wedding episode was great, but too much of it toward the end (Christopher's 14-minute heroin trip, Carmella in Paris, ect.) felt like it was trying to be avant garde for avant garde's sake.

Season 4 of The Wire will, for the first time, give a lot of people an honest look what a godawful mess public schools are big cities. I'm as excited about it as I have been any season of TV ever.

 

[Starman]

Entourage has turned into a show for ass slappers and frat boys who like to make **** jokes, and imagine themselves as being funnier, smarter, cooler and better looking than they really are.

Oh, I thought that was "SportsCenter." :

 

[carrie]

I would agree that this season has been a shade weak....however, it's still better than anything on regular TV by a long way...and better than any Sex and the City bull****.

I pity simpleminded folk.
Really, I do.