Entourage: Redomption
By fred | October 13, 2008
(S05E06) There’s always been not one, but two things that attracted me to this show. First, was the behind-the-scenes look of Hollywood we were gonna get thought Vince’s eyes as he tries to become a huge movie star; Second, was of course that it’s a comedy, and I always love a good laugh. The show is at its best when it can manage to give us both of those two things in the same episode - whether it is all packed into the same stories, or using different characters.
This week, if you’re looking for a good laugh you will be disappointed by this episode, I think there’s no question there. That doesn’t mean the episode was any kind of bad, just that it wasn’t all that funny. It tried to be, in a story that involved Turtle and his aspirations to find a job, and his buddy Drama, but alas while there was a lot of potential in that plot to make something good come out of it, the result was neither good or funny.
Moving on to the rest of the episode, and the behind the scenes as Vince still needs a new project. Ari had a plan, he was simply going to bet the whole thing on the golf course and hopefully get Vince the role he was looking for that way. As always with Ari, there were lots of insults of all kinds, but in the end he couldn’t deliver and he didn’t get Vinny the job.
But in a twist that’s almost too easy to be good, Alan died of a heart attack. It should be tragic, and yet my first thought was about the same as Drama : Sure, he’s dead and it’s tragic, but he was the reason Vince couldn’t get anywhere near the movie, because he hated his guts as much as he hated Ari. Now that he’s dead, there should be no real problem to get Vince the part he wants.
In a way it’s good, we need to move on and get Vince back to work, but then again, doesn’t it seemed a little too easy ?
The other story going on was another come back, Dom. He called Vince while in the middle of a car chase, minutes before the cops would arrest him. Because Vince is broke, E got to pay his bail and he was quite nervous about it, fearing that he would just run away as soon as he’d get a chance. But no, Dom had really changed, now he had a family, a wife and a little baby daughter, and he didn’t had no intention to disappear.
But his wife had warned him, that if he was ever going to get arrested one more time, she’d leave him. And so she did. I’m not sure whether or not that was only for dramatic effect or not, I’m not sure whether she took the baby and her mother along or not, but I’m guessing no one really cares, it was all about E’s worries and Dom being a new guy, for real.
Which makes it all even more hard to understand why the fuck he ran from the police into a car chase that could only have ended with him behind bars, and his wife getting extremely pissed at best. If he hadn’t done nothing wrong at all, as he claims, why risk to ruin his brand new life ?
But the real important part of this story wasn’t there, it was that E is still focusing on Vince and everything Vince first, before his other clients. And it’s starting to be old and annoying, quite understandably so. But when E showed up for Charlie’s meeting with Vince by his side, all that got soon forgotten because if E left in the middle of things to keep an eye on Dom, as Charlie joked it left no one but Vince to take care of him, and he did.
Vince agreed to do the pilot of whatever Charlie’s been working on. Which obviously might not go well, because I’m guessing Ari might not like that, plus should Vince now get the part he wanted, he might not be able to do everything. Did he even agree to do a one-time apparition on that pilot, or signed for a regular role on a TV show ??
All in all and if you forget about Drama and Turtle, this was a pretty good episode. Sure, not all that funny, but the show’s main goal doesn’t have to be funny all the time, I’d much rather got to see some of the people at work and actually moving the plot forward, that seeing Ari sending poo or whatever just for the jokes. By the way, yes, Lloyd was completely missing this week.
