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Entourage: Less Than 30 (mid-season premiere)
(S03E13) "This town's not safe for a bitch."
It certainly isn't. What we have here is a good thing. Something you don't often see on television. Usually after a mediocre run of episodes, you expect a show to keep heading in the same direction. No matter how much you may love it, you expect the same mediocrity. Entourage has gone ahead and blown away all my expectations. This show feels new again. The way it did when it first premiered. Suddenly, there's this extremely serious tone and to top it off? It's just as funny as it ever was.
No exact time frame was given since we last left our Fab Four, but a lot has happened. Vince has moved on to another agent. Amanda (played by the ridiculously good looking Carla Gugino) takes her job far more seriously than Ari ever did and it appears that some of that work ethic may be rubbing off on Vince. Drama's Ed Burns pilot (Five Towns) got picked up by NBC. OK... so not a lot has happened. Turtle still smokes weed like it's oxygen and Eric is still dating Sloane. Things actually seem to be pretty good for everyone. Except Ari. All those years where he took Vince for granted have finally come back and smacked him in the face.
What the show has developed into is a much more sophisticated look into Vince's life. Career now carries the same weight as partying for the former Aquaman and if you think about it, that's a huge step for Vince. An even bigger step? He's interested in doing an adaptation of Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon. Just the idea of that sounds painful. Medellín it isn't and Ari knows this. So he dangles the possibility of Vince still being able to get his dream role by claiming inside knowledge that Benicio Del Toro is losing interest in the part.
You have to hand it to Ari. He really does know Vince better than anyone else and if he's going to create a power struggle between himself, his old client, and his old client's new agent... this is the way to do it. Personally, I think Ari is full of it and just likes to think he can wish these things into reality. If the film were really on the verge of being up for grabs, I think Amanda would have heard something. She strikes me as being good at what she does.
Elsewhere, Drama has taken to searching for himself on the billboards of Hollywood in some sort of whacked out individual version of Where's Waldo. Of course, it's amusing because nobody has any idea who the hell he is.
Turtle continues to prove himself more business savvy than you'd expect from someone who's constantly stoned. How do you throw Vince the biggest birthday bash without maxing out Eric's credit cards? Sponsorship and lots of it. Some of it I got. Victoria's Secret? Um... hell yes. Skyy Vodka? Makes sense. Carvel ice cream? Huh?
Despite all that's changed though, some things haven't. Vince is still a dreamer. Lazy? Maybe. Slightly gullible? Definitely. However, what he sees as cautious patience, Amanda sees as potential disloyalty and annoyance. Amanda takes her job seriously. Vince can't be taking tips from Ari and expect her to just roll with it.
In closing, my new thing withe this show isn't quotes. It's ways it makes me jealous. This week?
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I want Eric's Schlitz beer tee-shirt. I have a Pabst Blue Ribbon tee and the Schlitz one would complete the collection of crappy, cheap beer apparel.
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Drama got a hand-job from the Friendly's girl who makes the Fribbles? Wow. That man is an icon.
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