Entourage: Dominated

(S03E03) I must be slow. Only just now did the wordplay of this episode's title make any sense to me. "Dom"inated. Idiot, right here. Dom would be the goofy looking guy in the middle of the picture above. He's an old buddy from back home in Queens, fresh out of prison, and looking to get reacquainted with his old friends. As one would expect, his return went downhill fast. I honestly wasn't too impressed with this episode. First time that's ever happened with Entourage.
After he shows up (he jimmied the front door lock when no one was home), it seemed pretty clear that Dom's just trying to find some space on Vince's coattails. He even tried to pitch a script that he wrote in prison to Eric. But Dom isn't stupid... well, yeah he is. But he plays right into Vince's guilt. He went to prison after he got pinched with a few joints that belonged to Vince. That wasn't what got him the jail time though. Punching the officer that arrested him took care of that.
It played out like you expected though. Dom started stepping on everyone's toes. Loud sex. Walking around naked. Cooking when Drama is supposed to. Driving when Turtle is supposed to. But we gotta deal with him for at least one more episode because Vince gave Dom a job as his bodyguard. Wonderful. There's really no reason for Vince to feel like he owes Dom anything.
Ari had his own little storyline going on. His daughter has started dating some child actor punk who's in talks to revive the Cody Banks franchise. I suppose it was funny and the chump kid had a few good lines ("I'll IM you late night, ciao."), but ultimately what does it have to do with anything? It's a dead-end and as far as I can tell it was only there to stretch out an already thin storyline revolving around Dom. Turtle had it right. The crew works much better as a foursome.

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