Entourage 6/18 (Spoilers Warning I guess)

[nafselon]

Looks like the writers are back in the groove.

Not much for show development but it was very entertaining throughout.

 

[FootballScribe]

That was a classic episode in the "I don't want to think about anythin and just enjoy watching a TV show for a half hour" kind of way.

Hilarious stuff all the way around.

 

[Ralph Waldo Henderson]

It set up the rest of my hangover very well.

 

[Stupid]

Drama, first with the towel around his neck, then diving into the pool was a hoot.

plus, Ari crushing that good luck thing Lloyd gave him was classic

 

[tyler durden 71351]

Good one...the whole idea of them going to a high school party kind of fits with Vince's laid back attitude.

 

[Jeff Gluck]

How great was this line?

"There are no asterisks in life, only scoreboards, and ours is currently reading '****ed.'"

By the way, Lucky Louie was hilarious as well tonight, IMHO. "They really were the greatest generation."

Great stuff, very entertaining hour.

 

[Jeff Gluck]

plus, Ari crushing that good luck thing Lloyd gave him was classic

I was watching it by myself, but I said "OHHHHHHHHHHHH!" out loud when he crushed it.

 

[The Big Ragu]

OK. Not to follow the typical SportsJournalists.com script and be the first "contrary" post that starts a firestorm... Because I found it entertaining... But something about the show is starting to feel tired for me... I think it is just that what was fresh for two seasons is starting to feel old to me in season three. You can only play out the same script--Vince/Ari/rest of cast are on top of the world, fake drama threatens Vince/Ari's place on top of the world, everything works out in the end--so many times. It has not only been the arc of each season, it is how each 30 minute episode gets neatly wrapped up. The show is fun and is kitschy, but I can see myself getting bored (started to tonight).

 

[Stupid]

I think you either really like the characters or you expect something completely new. I really like the characters and think that the show is still young enough to have them goofing off and still be entertaining.

 

[FootballScribe]

I understand what you mean and don't disagreee with that. I think what makes it entertaining for me is that it's always something new and kitschy every week that maybe I didn;t know or didn't think about when it comes to Hollywood. For instance, I never knew how the projections for box office totals worked. Now, I learned something that I didn't really worry about before in a fun way.

That and Johnny Drama are enough to keep me coming back every week.

 

[Big Mac]

Good thing Johnny Drama "hydrated" before heading into the Valley.

 

[spinning27]

Ari crushing the doll was a classic moment.

The rest of the episode......eh.

A few good laughs, but I agree with the statement that every show feels the same.

 

[Clubber_Slang]

OK. Not to follow the typical SportsJournalists.com script and be the first "contrary" post that starts a firestorm... Because I found it entertaining... But something about the show is starting to feel tired for me... I think it is just that what was fresh for two seasons is starting to feel old to me in season three. You can only play out the same script--Vince/Ari/rest of cast are on top of the world, fake drama threatens Vince/Ari's place on top of the world, everything works out in the end--so many times. It has not only been the arc of each season, it is how each 30 minute episode gets neatly wrapped up. The show is fun and is kitschy, but I can see myself getting bored (started to tonight).

of course it's the same a lot of the time, but it's not like you watch the show like "wow, I'm really rooting for Vince to make it big, I wonder if he will" you watch it because the characters are hilarious and it's their hijinks inside the party-problem-party chain that makes the show what it is. Vince is a star, of course everything goes right for him. Such is life.

 

[patchs]

It was a classic, epitomized everything that makes the show great, Johnny Drama over the top, Vincent being cool and spending money on his pals, Ari being Ari, in therapy, in his element, Turtle with some good cracks, E being the worry wart, a party and SoCal references.
Glad I recorded it, 'cause it's a keeper.

 

[nafselon]

This week's show was great and it's the sort of ADD-inspired writing that keeps everything on the surface. This is strictly an entertaining sitcom with very little carry over from one week to the next. Many of the central characters from last season's storyline (Mandy Moore, Saigon, Adam Davies, the director of Queens Blvd, hell the movie Queens Blvd) basically don't exist anymore because it's Hollywood and people move on that quickly. I'm surprised Sloan got a cameo in last week's show and they didn't even mention their moms or otherwise.

There's one central theme to the season (I'm guessing this year's will be Ari trying to develop his own agency) and everything else around that just sort of happens from week to week. Main goal is that the characters stay entertaining and generally consistent.

 

[nafselon]

http://chicagosports.chicagotribune...8piven,1,2245680.story?coll=cs-home-headlines

No hugs for Piven at Wrigley

By Teddy Greenstein
Tribune staff reporter

Chatting on the field before Sunday's Tigers-Cubs game, actor Jeremy Piven and Cubs marketing chief John McDonough discussed how Piven would incorporate his signature line into his singing of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game."

They came up with: "Hug it out, Cubs fans."

But Piven couldn't resist going nearly word-for-word with his line from HBO's "Entourage."

"Let's hug it out, you little *******," he yelled to the crowd at Wrigley Field.

McDonough, while noting that Piven has been a loyal Cubs fan and friend to the team, was disappointed and issued an apology.

"I don't know if professional adrenaline took over, but we don't ever want to introduce profanity into the seventh-inning stretch," he said.

I am now more of a Piven fan than ever before.

 

[patchs]

Piven rocks.
He has this "Journey to India" show on the Travel Channel that really shows who he is. Great guy.
Classic voice.

 

[tyler durden 71351]

One minor quibble...as much as they try to make the show a behind-the-scenes-look at Hollywood.....it isn't. If Vince was starring in a huge summer action movie, he wouldn't be goofing around L.A. with his buddies the week it opened. He would be in New York getting ready to appear on Letterman and John Stewart and "TRL Live" and "Good Morning America" and "The View". Even if he was in L.A., he would be getting ready to go on "The Tonight Show" and doing satellite interviews. And then there would be all the international press to worry about. I mean, you know Tobey Maguire wasn't about to go to a high school keg party the day "Spider-Man" opened.

 

[The Big Ragu]

One minor quibble...as much as they try to make the show a behind-the-scenes-look at Hollywood.....it isn't. If Vince was starring in a huge summer action movie, he wouldn't be goofing around L.A. with his buddies the week it opened. He would be in New York getting ready to appear on Letterman and John Stewart and "TRL Live" and "Good Morning America" and "The View". Even if he was in L.A., he would be getting ready to go on "The Tonight Show" and doing satellite interviews. And then there would be all the international press to worry about. I mean, you know Tobey Maguire wasn't about to go to a high school keg party the day "Spider-Man" opened.

Great point. But the show isn't realistic in lots of ways. There is a much better chance Vince's career path goes Freddy Prinze Jr. than Tom Cruise, but that isn't going to happen in this show.

 

[Seabasket]

One minor quibble...as much as they try to make the show a behind-the-scenes-look at Hollywood.....it isn't. If Vince was starring in a huge summer action movie, he wouldn't be goofing around L.A. with his buddies the week it opened. He would be in New York getting ready to appear on Letterman and John Stewart and "TRL Live" and "Good Morning America" and "The View". Even if he was in L.A., he would be getting ready to go on "The Tonight Show" and doing satellite interviews. And then there would be all the international press to worry about. I mean, you know Tobey Maguire wasn't about to go to a high school keg party the day "Spider-Man" opened.   

Sure he'd be doing the talk show circuit, but it's not inconceivable that he'd have one night off. A lot of promotion is done in the weeks leading up to the movie. It's possible he had one day off between doing L.A. media before the movie and flying to NY to do east coast promotion afterward.
Also, in the past they had him on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Probably didn't want to go back to that well. I loved the concept of the "biggest ****ing movie star in the world" at a high school house party.