Entourage: “Dog Day Afternoon”
Sorry for the late post, I am in the process of moving and couldn’t get to a computer until around 10:30am et.
A decent block of HBO original programming last night. Probably preferrable to last Sunday if only because the Entourage had so much more substance to it than their premiere. Instead of an excuse to show theirye candy agent and discuss an Edith Wharton adaptation that we know is never going to happen, we got Ari in a gay club talking Lloyd out of whoring himself for a writing talent. Now that, my friends, is substance.
I have to tell you, if Eric Murphy were a real person and we ran in the same circles, I would probably either A) igore him, B) actively hate him or C) beat him senseless. The non-stop yammering about appeasing his girlfriend, her fickle traveling habits that everyone around her must pander to, the constant acceptance that everything she says and does is infallible and cannot be criticized in anyway shape or form… lets just say I was hoping Vince would give Eric an ultimatum. You can either ditch your pretentious, spoiled girlfriend and live off my millions and we’ll pretend like you’re earning it or you can live of her fathers millions and everyone can know you’re not earning it?
To be honest, the character is just pissing me off. He has the same two or three inflections he uses when he talks and all of them grate at my nerves:
-”Yeah, (Somebody’s name), you’re a real (pop culture reference or title that applies to the topic at hand)”
-”Keep it up (Somebody’s name)”
-Asking blatantly obvious questions that exude why he shouldn’t have the role he does.
The Drama-Turtle storyline was humorous at times and accentuated the difference between Turle and Eric. At some point, Turtle actually defended himself and stood for some sort of principal, even if it was for something as trivial as a girl making disparaging remarks about his dog, it was more commendable than anything Eric has done in the past three episodes (You’re agent doesn’t deserve to get fired because you’re friend didn’t want to have breakfast with a studio president, idiot). Drama and Turtle tend to have a seperate storyline every week, at the very least they’re resourceful, which is more than I can say for “E”. Who for the most part is a hapless, spineless, selfish, humorless twit with no understanding of how the world works.
The Ari-Lloyd storyline was priceless, however; well worth the half hour. I have no idea what the applied etiquette is in a gay bar, but when Lloyd slapped Jay Lester (who may or may not have played Andy Millman’s desperate co-worker in Extras), would a scenario like that ever result in a fight or some sort of club supervision? I was surprised it was so widely accepted.
Also, did Ari’s wife completely miss what he was saying? When Ari was feeling guilty he muttered something along the lines of “I sold my soul for a plasma screen and two showerheads in every bedroom”. Obviously not feeling particularly pleased with himself, and she responded with something like, and this is an egregious paraphrase, “Tomorrow is another day”. Something about her demeanor mad eme interpret it as, “Tomorrow you can sell your soul for even MORE money!” Am I the only one who interpreted this as such? Or was this her being supportive and putting his mind at ease? Either way it doesn’t really matter.
All in all, a definite improvement from last week. Minimize the amount of Carla Cugino screentime and I’ll be a happy camper.
November 21st, 2007 at 11:00 am
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