Entourage: Seth Green Day
By fred | November 10, 2008
(S05E10) This is a show about Hollywood and what goes on behind the scenes, what we usually never get to see. And, at heart, Hollywood is all about the looks, more important than what is, which barely matters, is what it looks like. It doesn’t matter if you’re selling a piece of crap as long as it looks good, and so maybe it’s only normal that this is what we’re getting from the show, something that might look good, but fails to deliver.
Many times this season we’ve been in that situation where things looked great, exciting, finally interesting again, and sadly it never really happened. Ari got a major offer and could have gone for a life-changing move, but he passed and everything went back to normal, the usual (not to say boring) daily wandering of everyone. And this week it felt a little bit of the same.
Sure, I absolutely loved to see Ari try to be nice and ask nicely, emphasizing on the “please”, and then just head back to its true self and crash Barbara’s party in a way only he came master. That was a lot of of fun, I loved it, and I would really have been excited if finally it meant changes were on their way, that Ai would actually do it, split the company and become his own boss again, for real — or maybe start a new partnership with his old buddy.
Alas, that won’t happen of course. And about the guy, Andrew Klein really is nothing of an interesting character. I mean how are we supposed to think there’s potential for this guy to make it in Ari’s world, where a simple little meeting like this gets him to go on full panic-attack mode !?? At this point he doesn’t even seem to be the kind of guy Ari should fight for… I sure hope writers know where they’re going with this.
And speaking of old friends, here is the revenge of Seth Green ! I don’t know what person he actually is, but he sure portrays the douchebag really well. Although, to be fair, I’m not sure who’s the worst of the two : him, or E. Jee that guy is a looser! I knew Seth wouldn’t be there at that first dinner, he was more than obviously playing with him, and yet E took it all.
And when asked to go see Sloan again and ask her to call Seth, E just fucking did it and went there. Maybe he wanted to see her again, I can see that, but using that as an excuse remains a very lame move, not to mention how it appears that he let Seth dictate the rule and do whatever he wants. If that’s really how E is going to conduct his business and advice his clients, I feel sorry for them. E surely didn’t get that from Ari, I think it might have been a good idea to play closer attention to the guy, because in the end he gets things done, he got a major studio offer, he put Dana in place, he got Vince the movie he wanted, Ari gets things done, all E gets is to be played with like the idiot he might just be, stuck in boring plot lines that have an awfully bad taste of filler.
Question: I was also under the impression that Charlie & E owned the script, since Charlie wrote it, meaning they could get Seth out, maybe even get the project to some other studio, not the other way around ? Or did they already sold the script to the studio, giving up their rights and not even including a clause that says they must be a part of it ?? Wouldn’t actually surprise me, coming from E and all… But really, didn’t that whole thing felt off ? Especially when the project was sold with Vince guesting in the pilot, and Vince comes with E, just like Charlie and the script, so if they still weren’t strong enough to boot Seth out and be played like that…
Anyways, on to Smoke Jumpers. Seems clear to me that, as I said last week, the director doesn’t think much how Vince’s acting talent and doesn’t think he’s good for his movie, but he has to deal with him because it was forced upon him by the studio (Dana). Vince being who he is he doesn’t see anything, but it really looks that way to me, with the constant lies and everything (Also see Drama & Turtle sent back to play Wii, because it was too much to actually give them something to do).
And as time goes by, I’m starting to wonder… did Edward Norton just get replaced ?? I may have totally missed that part, but I don’t think it’s been said so, and I was under the impression that if that movie was made the way it is now, it was because of Norton’s interested in the project, adapting the script to turn the little inde production into a big budget feature. So, did that just got forgotten about ? Is Norton still producing but not starring ? Or is he coming in later in the season ??
What’s your take on this episode ? Did you had fun watching Ari making his little congratulatory speech for Babs ? Did you laugh at E and his dry pussy ? What do you think will happen when Ari finally finds out Vince is being evicted from the movie ?
