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....SO I TELL THE MO-FO'S NOBODY UPSTAGES JOHNNY CHASE

Watched a couple of episodes of this for the first time recently, like it. Not sure what season it is though, it's the ones on ITV2

alopecia swimmer on 7th heaven roffles

mark morrison "return of the mack" :D

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mark morrison "return of the mack" :D

pretty much the highlight of a fairly unimpressive opener. shown a week behind in britain so pls to delay spoilers by a week.

1st ep starting with vince and turtle paired up and e and drama paired up was a good sign

they left a lot hanging in the season 4 finale that just kind of went away by the time this season started. wasnt "harvey" going to work w/ medellin?

he bought it for $1 after the cannes screening but I don't think it was ever suggested that there was much/anything more to the story.

i think they need to go back to basics - e as suit... doesn't suit him. turtle still great though.

first two eps of this definitely seem like an improvement!!

medellin went straight to dvd!

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LOL! tried to explain to my GF why this had me rolling

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Tobey Maguire IS.... JARVIK.

hey there entourage thread. I usually catch up with this show after the seasons are over - finally watching it with everybody else. my standards dropped off a lot since season 3 part II admittedly but these opening two eps were surprisingly kind of great! I'm liking vincent chase movie star arc/leighton meester, and ari just stopping short of telling him he's a bad actor.

walbergh cameo was kind of a waste

oh the humanity

making Bow Wow a new recurring character in episode 1 = not a god look. bringing back both Carla Gugino and Leighton Meester in episode 2 = good look.

are haas and ribisi gonna be the screenwriter versions of billy walsh now?

walbergh cameo was kind of a waste

oh come on dude THE TROUBLE WITH CHARLIE!

I'm also liking the newly motivated Vince, as well as up-and-coming E / Suit. And the Lukas Haas / Giovanni Ribisi tag-team! AND CARLA GUGINO!!! Even Drama's neurotic horseshit is semi-endearing. Turtle, OTOH, can go stick his dick in a Twinkie.

Also: eff a Shipley & more Bow-Wow goddamit.

i think turtle's story arc this season is going to be him learning how to get pussy without hanging around vince

i didn't even recognize Ribisi, weird. (xpost)

eff a shipley

F. A. Shipley

yeah i roffled at The Trouble With Charlie (eff a x-post)

I hope they don't keep playing Medellin for laughs too much, it's funny but it's no Simple Jack (or even Queens Boulevard, for that matter).

Who Else But ... F. A. Shipley?

that shit confused me. i was like bow wow don't even have a car?

at some point billy walsh has to come back and there has to be a shot of his lolhueg back tattoo

xxp

l b dub has a restricted license, his legs can't reach the pedals.

just remembered the other part of last season they left hanging- do vince and e have to deal with a hella-pissed Adam Goldberg who put all his inheritance into Medellin?

so glad they got medellin out of the way

after he's done railing lines off those chicks asses
xpost

did the thread checker not tell you about:

BOOM! The Entourage Season 5 thread

:( sorry sunny

its okay. i linked it to this one.

t.i. meeting was good but overall this episode was so so bad :(

no Young Dro cameo, no credibility

Johnny yaking on the cake = A+++++++++

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Casey Affleck deserves higher billing than Richard T. Jones.

is that a spoiler

fan-made poster

MAKE BENJI YOU ASSHOLES

good ep this week. zoomers!!!

my favorite part was random dude kicking it in Eric Roberts' house.

also lol lloyd is gay you guys

yeah Eric Roberts was great, much better than when they jumped on the "Gary Busey is so weird" train a couple years late. one of the dumbest episodes in a while but also one of the funniest in a longer while.

rolling frank tv thread

This was a really good episode. Can't go wrong with Eric Roberts and Captain Beefheart.

this season is so much better than the last one.

loled at drama having a bunch of sexual harassment suits the other guys dont know about

phil mickelson wtf

I was really thrown by the Ari development and the Radiohead. Has this season just got better, or horribly bad?

kind of hard to tell with this show

entourage seems to have become one of those shows that I watch simply because I've always watched it, even though I'm not especially enjoying it anymore. this is a shame.

i liked that

Enjoying this season much more than the last one and loved this episode, and hurrah for UK tv showing at about the same time as USA tv so I can keep up with a thread for once. Great last scene with Ari heading over the tarmac and Jim From Neighbours doing his thing.

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The new Speed-the-Plow looks different from the Mantegna/Madonna one I saw.

picture is wrong way around

yeah, really like these moments of seriousness - if they involve ari, at least, bc Piven has the chops to handle them. loved, loved, loved the short phonecall at the end of the ep where whatsisname died. The way Piven juggled the lines as written on the page with the decision to have ari kinda shaken up and serious because of it. awesome. or ari so unsure in that conversation with Vince about the studio-job offer.

Problem is i like BIG CHANGE stuff like this in tv shows, but i think entourage is not the kind of show that will offer it. they'll just have ari turn the job down because he "loves his bros" in a sweet character moment, instead of pushing things forward in an interesting way.

bros before studios

wtf happened w/ actor girl vinny whisked away from the party in 2nd ep? i love this show but hate how it sets shit up like that and then forgets it in the next ep.

that was like a half episode

also, lol @ this show shooting a mexico scene in hawaii and then shooting a hawaii scene in LA in the same season.

Stellan is promising.

ooh jason patric the devil

the bros before studios was kinda duller, but more humanity revealed in ari again this episode in a way not clashing with his ari-ness: testosteroned-humanity. continues to work well, but it was weird to hear the "only 3 episodes left!" - it feels like this season just started

lol at menopausal zing at end

also, lloyd is being mighty assertive lately. hmm, emboldened due to (what i think is) nu-boyfriend?

lol more bow wow please

great episode.

Vince is supposed to suck, right?

I think Vince is supposed to be just a bit competent, nothing more, nothing less. Very much like Wahlberg in that sense. And he's going to be blamed for the movie shutting down isn't he? After 1 awful movie, the scandal post-Aquaman and this, I would kind of love love for him to fall into obscurity, but it's tv, so they'd never do this. Has a real life actor fucked up so many major things and gotten away with it?

wiki's description of next week's finale sounds good.

this season has been really really great but it's starting to get depressing... it's hard to see Vinny bouncing back from this at all, yeah.

plus Stellan did a real good job for once I must admit.

A++++ for using Rammstein-sounding music (if not Rammstein themselves) for the director's mad dash into the board meeting.

Sal & JLS 4evah ;_;

i had vivid dreams about an awesome nonexistent girlfriend after watching that episode last nite :-\

that was maybe the most thrilling episode of this show i've seen

and...actors be bouncing back all the time in real life shocker!

i have been digging this season...actual stuff happening!

Is it, like, seriously ending next week? I feel like it just fucking started. What even happened in 11 episodes.

they did shrooms with eric roberts

went to:

• mexico
• hawaii

Yeah, I've actually felt...emotions for characters this season. Actually pulling for Vinny as an actor, actually happy for Turtle to finally find a girl and not always be the one-dimensional sidekick

Seriously...this season has been pretty great. Much more focused on the business than on the personal life side of things.

As to what happened, you have:
1) Ari buys Lumburgh's Valley agency
2) Drama hires, abuses Turtle/Sal; Turtle/Sal quits in vindictive fashion
3) Drama takes dump in Jason Patric's trailer, does not flush
4) Ari gets really expensive watch, gets Dana Gordon hired as studio head
5) Ari crashes his Ferrari into back of school bus, bitch slaps fellow agent for disrespecting Mrs. Ari, fellow agent loses all possibility of hooking up with cute girl in his office who laughs at said bitch smack
6) Barbara Miller earns money
7) Bow-Wow has sex with REALLY hot girl, punches Seth, E and Seth renew feud; E and Sloan talk
8) Vince pouts, hooks up, gets high, gets hired, gets fired
9) Mrs. Ari continues to be hot, Lloyd continues to be gay
10) Turtle/Sal hooks up with Meadow on plane, in LA, in San Diego; gets high with Meadow on beach while driving Dom's limo; leaves Meadow in order to return to Queens with his boys.

So, you have the following:

Ari - attempting to make the move from agent to SUPERagent
Vince - trying to be an actor who makes movies instead of a movie star, system working against this intent
E - trying to make it as an agent
Drama - settling into life as "that guy" in television series
Turtle/Sal - realizing that life may actually be better - and probably is - when he does other things besides just driving Vince around

I am so stoked that HBO picked this up for another season.

Why did Drama and E just up and leave for New York considering one is on a hit tv series and the other is an agent whos client is casting for another potential hit tv series? Can't they carry on working and throw Vince/Turtle a room like Vince did for them while he tries to sort things? etc. etc. It annoys me when TV does this.

they were just jonesing for some sripraphai.

i think bow wow fucked up his shot at that particular tv series

i'm divided on this finale. most of it was great - the increasing tension, Van Sant's cameo, all the fantastic scenes of the roots in New York (fav: Turtle's ma hearing in on the phone sex)...but the last few minutes, the climax, it just seemed compressing a lot of incredulous and life-altering moves into 4 minutes. So Scorsese casts Vince without even meeting him, and Drama decides to invest in a NY bar (and renounce acting?), and E is fired and re-hired and successful regardless.. all immediately to land us permanently into season 6...I know how they have to develop new threads, but it seemed a bit crammed. Like a roller coaster ride..

Still looking forward to it though

I really enjoyed the e - vinny fight, even though it was resolved in approximately 120 seconds. One loose end I can think of - what about Turtle's relationship if they're staying NY for the near future?

I don't know if they will all be staying in New York, Drama presumably has a 3rd season, Bow Wow will need time, so I dunno. Also, JLS could get a job.

Great finale until that incredibly rushed last 5 minutes. Wished they just gave the ending its own episode.

agree that the ending was too rushed. i was ready for it to end on the vince + e argument cliffhanger, but was stoked at the scorsese thing.

also lol @ michael phelps cameo

haha it's so weird to be watching this show all season thinking "wtf is this shit, why am I still watching a show that peaked 3 seasons ago," and then seeing all the praise here. I guess it's just diminished expectations now? does anyone remember when Drama was the funniest guy on the show? now I'm like actually relieved when he has as little dialogue as possible. the finale felt rushed but I kinda figured they would find some way to work in an 'up' ending, since S4 had the big downer lol Medellin finale.

Drama decides to invest in a NY bar (and renounce acting?)

was there any indication at all that he was giving up acting or his show? I must've missed that.

no i probably got that wrong, then. there was just so much happening in the last few minutes that i felt whiplashed and jumped to conclusions, sorry

I dunno, now Drama has become their main source of income (until the Great Gatsby), he seems to have grown up a bit and taken the role of an actual big brother which I like. I also loved Vince going mental and throwing the phone, it was an actual "hey wait, he is a real boy" moment that the character has lacked through the whole show that season 5 finally sorted (see also: storming to see Ari to make him tell him the truth.)

i also saw an old repeat i'd never seen before, that was on one of the 33285764592 other HBO channels i get, that was from Season 3 i think, when after Queens Blvd everyone jumped town for Vegas. it seemed refreshingly funny - and less like they're trying so hard. so yeah i'm sure our expectations re now just low

Season 4 just seemed so boring, no new dramatic stakes or conflicts, increasingly worse dialogue, contrite situations, etc - the nadir of the series. despite all these cameos there was at least renewed energy in this season, where V is trying to take his career in the "respectable" direction - but how much longer will this go on before it all starts to feel recycled ?

i'm sure this was discussed elsewhere but their mom looks way too young and attractive to be, you know, their MOM

yeah Vince throwing the phone and losing it for a sec was by far the highlight of the episode...really I was kind of hoping for a season or at least a few episodes of Vince and E being on the outs.

Mercedes Ruhl is 26 yrs older than Grenier and 17 yrs older than Kevin Dillon...although there's some confusion/controversy as to whether she's Drama's mom too, since early on in the series it was implied that he shares a father with Vince, not a mother.

the last 5 minutes were great! what a reveal w/ scorsese, and then they close out the season on an upward arc. i'm really coming around on turtle, not just via jamie but also older stuff, most of which i missed out on but am now catching up with.

i like how Vince obviously never read the Great Gatsby

fav: Turtle's ma hearing in on the phone sex

that v. Jamie's "we're fucking"

I don't know what Grenier was doing, but I liked how his acting on Smokejumpers really did seem bad and distracted.

Yes! It finally struck me that Grenier is an actor playing a character and not just some playboy dilettante basically playing himself.

Having abandoned this early on in the season, I've recently returned to finish it off and wow did it ever return to form. Some of those episodes definitely up there with, if not better than, S1 and 2.

And S6 starts next week, y?

i abandoned early too but noticed season 5 is free for comcast on demand. i might try again.

wait do they ever stop talking about Medellin?

no thread for season 6 yet? premieres on sunday, right? will i start one?

not sure the title but some1 started it i think