Grid Effect

Sorry for the late post, surprisingly it isn’t my fault this time, as we were having technical issues, a problem I am too inept to resolve myself.

I think I am back to regularly enjoying Entourage. The episodes tend to lack symmetry and the continuity is horrible (why is Eric never asked to explain why he didn’t start up a private company, like, three years ago, or at least after Vince officially declared him his manager?), but there are a number of decent laughs and Ari coliding with the Sklar brothers (whom I normally cannot stand but they made for a good cameo this episode) provided us with the typically heartless Ari, a nice contrast since he left in tears to end last week. I was glad to see Ari get his commeupance when Mary J. Blige went to the rival agency as a direct result of him firing the man whose wife had cheated on him with his twin brother.

Vince, Turtle and Drama we’re pretty obsolete this episode. Little too know humor but very charitable, as Drama agreed to let Gary Busey paint him and Vince agreed to drop $42,000 on a desk (he agreed to the “Walk in The Clouds” film that will pay him six million if you are wondering where he got the money from, not that he couldn’t just charge it to that black card we keep seeing). Personally, after seeing him fucking in that bunny outfit last week, watching Busey splatter him in paint didn’t seem abnormal in any way. The bar has been set to high (or low, depending on your outlook) for me to be flummoxed by anything on this show now.

And Eric is definitely giving it the ol’ college try, but is so incredibly vapid its hard not to feel bad for him, regardless of how illegitimate and entitled he acts. At least he got some validation from Peter Jackson, who, much like everyone, finds Ari to be a soul-sucking parasite with nary a modicum of deceny. And that very well may be true in some cases, but the difference between abrasive Ari and wide-eyed Eric is the former actually gets shit done. To do so, especially in hollywood, requires a tinge of unpleasantness.

Again, this is all moot. Because as long as the show is funny, then I couldn’t give a fuck less about the plot or trite and redundant idiosyncrasies. The one people seem most annoyed with is Vince hooking up with every woman he comes across.

(I concede, it is a little reptitive, but is it really far-fetched? It isn’t all the irregular for women in SoCal to be attracted to wealth and fame. And why do people find it so irritating? Four guys living a charmed lifestyle in hollywood is the foundation of this show. If its so grating, then why did you start watching in the first place?)

However, between all the remarks about twins (or multiples, as Ari would put it), the dismissive comments in Ari’s conference (”if either of you mention it again I’ll kill you both”), Gary Busey having more unsettling dialogue and Eric being shot down at every turn, this episode was hitting on all corners in the comedy department. This “streak” that I was hoping they would keep up seems to be permanent and I was actually looking forward to last nights episode, so that has to indicate a dramatic improvement.

Flight of The Conchords recap possibly coming later.