Wheres my boy Vinnie Chase? An Entourage Season 2 thread...

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anyone else as completely in love with this show as I am?

― JD from CDepot, Sunday, 12 June 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Is Anna from the OC still on it?

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 12 June 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

i am

― anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 12 June 2005 09:39 (twenty years ago)

I liked the first season OK.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 12 June 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)

this show is markedly worse than watching ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, etc.

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 12 June 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

ach it's ok.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

it's bad but I'd watch it

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 12 June 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't Vincent Gallo supposed to be on this show?

― La Monte (La Monte), Sunday, 12 June 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

"this show is markedly worse than watching ACCESS HOLLYWOOD, etc."

god, are you kidding? this show isnt about celebrity worshop, its just a hilarious look at life as an actor and his freinds. i mean, from the point of view of turtle (someone who would be slaving away for a contractor if he wasnt freinds with vincent chase), why wouldnt you want to be involved in this world? shallow? sure, but fuck it, why not?

anyway, the real reason to watch the show is jeremy piven, who as agent ari is fucking hilarious, did anyone else see it tonight?

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 13 June 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

E's girlfriend got some major facial work done over the summer break

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 13 June 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

oh no, not the secretary? she was a doll. or do you mean his ex

― W i l l (common_person), Monday, 13 June 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

shes not E's girlfreind anymore, the bitch.

The best line of the night was Ari's
"I'd love to stay but its anal sex night at the Gold house, so if you'll excuse me, i have to go and punish my wife."

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 13 June 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

i like this show alot, it's very much sex and the city for dudes (the hollywood stuff is a bit of a red herring). i'm kinda sad e's girl is probably gone for good now - i've had the hots for that chick since undeclared - and i was sorta disappointed with the second episode - the first set up the possibility that this season might deal with e maybe not being so great at his job and vinnie's career hitting a speedbump (when he was like 'the toys are nice but i don't need them' i thought 'BUT WHAT ABOUT TURTLE?').

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 13 June 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Great show. And it's getting better even. The characters are great, the acting is good and it's got pace to it. Drama has calf envy.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lhiob.com/

― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 13 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

ok i downloaded and watched the first 4 eps of the second season this week. i noted that in ep 2 the opening scene music was amerie - 1 thing and in ep 4 it was that rihanna song. neither of those were big (or even released?) when this was filming (or during post-production unless post-production takes place much later than i think -- then again i know nothing about how this stuff works), so i guess they slip in current big hits shortly before airing? nice touch.

and yeah, as blount said (sharing another one of my thoughts in addition to the sitc comparison (not that i was the first to think of that, i'm sure)), this season everything cannot be as easy for vinnie or it'll be boring (as opposed to first season when that was the hook). and the end of ep 4 hints at that, although they might just hand-wave leo away at the start of the next ep. i hope not. i was pretty happy when the studio kicked them out of the mansion and they had to go looking for somewhere else -- i didn't even realize it was studio-owned (i didn't see every ep of season 1), i thought vinnie was already fuck-off rich but he's not, and the show's better for it.

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 1 July 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

Times article on Ari

i don't buy the author's contention that ari may be faithful to his wife. i can't remember a specific scene but isn't there something in the first season that disproves that?

""Entourage" represents so vast an improvement over HBO's "Sex and the City" that it makes that show seem, in retrospect, like nothing more than a one-note celebration of pluckiness, devised for a tweener reading level. By contrast, "Entourage" does not patronize its characters or its audience: it is a multilayered, adult and thoroughly funny show about various male fantasies of teamwork and individualism." !!! was never a big sitc fan myself (couldn't stand the 'articles' carrie would write/narrate *shudder*), but i never expected to read a graph like that from a name crit (is VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN a name crit? i don't read much tv criticism)

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

that article is OTM. Say what you will about Sex in the city, there isnt a character on that show thats half as alive as Ari Gold. Entourage is great fun, but it also has the opportunity to be great Drama (even though Johnny Drama will never be great). Sex in the City, in the few episodes ive seen, never rises above a girl power yawn, no matter how many appletinis the girls consume.

― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

I hate that binary "if you loved a show about women in the city, this show isn't for you! (thank god!)" aspect. And Ari definitely isn't faithful because last season there was the bit where he pissed off Eric for wanting the assistant and dropped that he had slept with other ones. But, Piven is no doubt the best thing about the show.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

that sounds right, except i guess it could be argued he was saying that for effect. i guess i have to admit the idea of ari being faithful really intrigues me. which case does that scene in ep 4 where he negotiates with wife for time at the playboy mansion give ammo to?

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

i will probably watch ep 5 tonight

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 7 July 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

also, He's impotent! I'm sure he doesnt cheat on her, any inclination of cheating that he gives should be seen as little more than macho posturing in front of vince.

― JD from CDepot, Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

woah really? i missed that one.

― W i l l (common_person), Thursday, 7 July 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)

Say what you will about Sex in the city, there isnt a character on that show thats half as alive as Ari Gold

I totally call bullshit on that.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 7 July 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

Samantha! Samantha! Samantha!

― Candicissima (candicissima), Thursday, 7 July 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

of course, i thought about Samantha before i said that. shes the obvious choice to contend with jeremy piven's character, and maybe i cant disagree, for me its a matter of taste. Samantha is this "empowered" woman, for whom empowered sleeping around like a man and making just as much money (and in my opinion being a total bitch), but hey, good for her. if thats what people consider empowered, so be it. but Ari is something much more interesting; his character desperately tries to assume power and dominance in an industry run by fear and instability. His posturing reveals a tragi-comic flaw that, to me, is just thousands of times more entertaining.

(i realize as i write this all the episodes where we see the "softer" side of samantha. sure, its there, but i just dont believe it. oh well.)

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 8 July 2005 02:51 (twenty years ago)

Well, I'm not 100% certain about what you take "alive" to mean, but in terms of a fully realized characters with nuance, I think Miranda and Steve blow away anyone and anything on Entourage.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 8 July 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

ep 5 was pretty good. (spoilers) emily!! wise move bringing her back. much better than eric's ex.

saget: slightly amusing, but not nearly vulgar enough for his reputation. which points to a problem in general for this show: it's on HBO but where're the goodies that's supposed to enable, eg full-frontal, drugs, really raunchy stuff. like when they sit around the pool with the hookers and saget brags about his colombian...WEED? c'mon!

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 8 July 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

i really enjoy this show

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 22 July 2005 04:01 (twenty years ago)

LET'S HUG IT OUT

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 22 July 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

Did anyone catch this tonight? Ari leaving the agency, Mandy dumping Vince, Turtle..well, being Turtle. this season has been very very good.

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 29 August 2005 02:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm helplessly hooked. Thanks for ruining tonights episode.
And I'm off.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 August 2005 04:02 (twenty years ago)

im so so so so so so sorry!

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 29 August 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

i was debating staying up to watch the rerun so i'm glad you made it sound like the MOST DRAMATIC episode of entourage ever

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 29 August 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

honestly, i wish i could have my earlier spoiler comment erased, is that possible?

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 29 August 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

It's okay JD; unlike say, The Sopranos or Deadwood, spoilers don't really affect the enjoyment of watching Entourage.
That said, I thought this was one of the better episodes. Ari is BY FAR the most interesting plot to follow and the relationship with him and Lloyd just got super cooler.

"When your girlfriend was in the mailroom, she offered to blow me.
True story."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 August 2005 05:28 (twenty years ago)

Entourage is a much more realistic portrayal of NYC males than SatC is of NYC women (or NY'ers period). for whatever that's worth.

This season's been great. The only things that haven't sat well with me; 1.) the women aren't written very well (like, at all) 2.) the 20-minute U2 performance from the SDCC ep 3.) not enough emily

Ari's definately the most interesting thing about the show, the build-up of this episode was bitchin.

― sux2bu (Adrian Langston), Monday, 29 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

i was kinda surprised ari was able to be caught off guard quite like that, although maybe it was just his cockiness. a glint of that old alex droog shark in mcdowell's eyes glaring at ari after he wrote 'nothing!!!'. i liked at the end with ari's big concern being his wife and the scenes of them together. it'd be nice to see that relationship fleshed out a bit beyond the seesaw between 'she's spoiled'/'he's an asshole married to his job'. the women aren't really given alot to do on this show beyond either being frustrated with the boys or being amused by the boys. o and look very very good. i've heard people complain that it isn't vicious enough, it isn't cutting satire, etc. but that's one of the things that really appeals to me about it - cutting satire about hollywood is old hat by now. if entourage had followed the now standard player/swimming with sharks tone (which seriously is the basis of like eight different shows between hbo and ifc) the ari having the carpet pulled out from under his feet doesn't have nearly the 'holy shit' impact it had.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 29 August 2005 07:11 (twenty years ago)

Vincent's buddies may be NYC males, but Ari is dyed-in-the-wool LA.

― Vichitravirya XI (Vichitravirya XI), Monday, 29 August 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

boardsmag.com/screeningroom/search/?q=entourage

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 29 August 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Quik played Teedra Moses at the bat mitzvah celebration hurrah.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 29 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

This show is great.

Ari may be an asshole, but I felt sorry for him. It would be nice to see him rise back on top of his game rather than fade away.

I love watching the Queens boys much more than I originally thought I would. I even like Vinny Chase now. There's some depth to his character. But what I really enjoy more than anything is the bumbling sidekicks, Turtle and Calf Implants. They are hilarious!

Is this the second season now? The show got good really quick.

I hope it lasts at least 5 years because I can't get enough!

― Steak Tissues, Monday, 29 August 2005 20:04 (twenty years ago)

I loved the part w/Ari and Lloyd at the end.

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 29 August 2005 20:21 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i really hope Ari figures something out in the last episode.

And just how funny is Johnny Drama? Kevin dillon in the role he was literally born to play.

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:01 (twenty years ago)

The way that this is MOST like Sex in the City is that in SitC the men are written to be bumbling dunderheaded cliches and in Entourage the women are written to be bumbling dunderheaded cliches.

Q: How can you tell if a woman is unworthy in Entourage?
A: She's in Entourage.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

haha OTM

but i like E's new girl, none the less.

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

She is utterly without personality, has perfect manners and is hot as hell. She is, thus, perfect.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

is it me or do her and mandy's makeup artists have their hands full? i miss emily :(

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

are there any more eps this season?

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 02:52 (twenty years ago)

Should be.
HTTP://WWW.LHIOB.COM

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

ONLY TWO DAYS TILL THE FINALE!!!!!!!!!

so excited so excited

― JD from CDepot, Friday, 2 September 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

predictions(/wishful thinking)?
-- vinnie + eric strongly courted by droogy alex, but he drops the ball (plans conveyed by e's blank beautiful gf)
-- vinnie + eric are ultimately convinced to go with ari's new agency by lloyd

i haven't seen the teaser so these are probably way off...

― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 2 September 2005 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Actually Will, I can't imagine anything BUT that happening; that's been the set up ever since these characters have been introduced.
I mean, what, now that we CARE about LLoyd and Ari I'm supposed to believe that Eric will side with the yarble tolchocker? Pshaw.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Sunday, 4 September 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

ehhhhh it was ok, im kinda dissapointed...

alls well that ends well, but no real twist, you know?

― JD from CDepot, Monday, 5 September 2005 01:33 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I thought the finale sucked.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 5 September 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

This is the best show ever!!! I love Ari. He captures every scene. Drama is funny too. He is so ridiculous. Vinny Chase... great pick for the role... he's calm and cool, and, until the season finale, never got mad, or made his friends feel guilty for sponging off him. The only character I am not nuts about it Eric... hes ungrateful and to much of a dad... plus.. the actor... not really my favorite, but i love the rest of the cast

― Todd Simonson, Tuesday, 6 September 2005 04:55 (twenty years ago)

turtle's def most fun to watch (after ari natch). it's like jerry ferrara's second gig ever.

HBO
A lot of the other guys pointed to you and said, the thing about Jerry is, the guy you see on screen, he's always smiling, he's a great guy, he's really easy to get along with. And he's the same guy that he is when you're just hanging out. Do people expect you to be like Turtle when they meet you?

Jerry
Oh, absolutely. I actually think people are a little disappointed [LAUGHS]. I mean I am very much like that guy in the sense that that I'm from New York, I have the same group of friends from when I was a kid, and if you're my good friend, there's nothing that I won't do for you. I'll do anything in the world. I'll die for you. But I'm different in that I'm not as outgoing or as outspoken as Turtle. I'm definitely way more shy than he is, especially with women. If I'm first meeting you, you'll think I'm just this shy, quiet kid. But once you get to know me, then the Turtle comes out.

― W i l l (common_person), Tuesday, 6 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

I was really hoping that Eric would go ahead and take the job with McDowell, Vinnie would keep the Aquaman gig/Ari and they'd start to spread apart a little. I'm not sure how much more mileage they can get out of the four guys as a unit.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 15 September 2005 05:39 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

god i love this show so much

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

are you kidding me? the show is called ENTOURAGE.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:39 (twenty years ago)

"i wish the enterprise would settle down and quit trekking around the stars finally"

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:40 (twenty years ago)

didn't the real life "Turtle" pass away a few months ago :(

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 7 March 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

dom, because somehow you were the only one getting laid, you will be missed

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 8 July 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

"the only one getting laid"??

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 8 July 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

who else is??

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 8 July 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Eric has a hot girlfriend who just hasn't been shown
the publicist was way pregnant for the first episodes
Vinnie is Vinnie

Turtle and Drama... ok, not so much.

― milo z (mlp), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

haha the publicist! and you forgot ari, since aquaman opened nice and big.

anyway i'm talking about onscreen, a la first season. it's hbo goddamit!

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 8 July 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPvorO0EGIY

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

should we have a season 3 thread?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Having never seen an episode, can I start with season 2?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Having never seen an episode, can I start with season 2?

Yeah sure. Nothing actually happens in any episode in season 1 (the only season I've seen). They just go to parties and try to pull chicks, and sometimes Chase/Eric bicker with Ari. That's it.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

jordan you can probably start with any episode

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 02:00 (nineteen years ago)

Season 1 has some excellent vegan yoga-instructor butt.

― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

yeah... there is some plot in season 1 but you can get on anytime.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

good episode. and not b/c of the obligatory lesbian embrace, either.

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

~~lesbian~~ girl-girl

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

great ep!! amazing reveal at the beginning.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

eight years pass...

http://entouragemovie.tumblr.com

― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Thursday, 24 July 2014 02:04 (eleven years ago)

ten months pass...

Movie looks just like the show.

― ... (Eazy), Monday, 1 June 2015 00:30 (ten years ago)

i like how in the ads they explain what the word entourage means

― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 June 2015 00:43 (ten years ago)

...trashed by A.O. Scott...

― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 21:32 (ten years ago)

http://i58.tinypic.com/i6muyh.png

― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 21:41 (ten years ago)

'Entourage' review: Tolerable reunion
Opinion-Chicago Tribune-Jun 1, 2015

― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 22:56 (ten years ago)

Mike Golic gave it four donuts on Mike & Mike.

― Allen (etaeoe), Wednesday, 3 June 2015 23:29 (ten years ago)

^^^

― johnny crunch, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:13 (ten years ago)

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