(S03E15) "I'd buy diseased fish from her." - Drama
I second that, not just because Amanda is smoking hot, but because this is the Entourage I remember. This was an extremely solid episode and quite possibly the best one we've gotten from season three. The only one I can recall liking as much was "Vegas Baby, Vegas," and that one was good partly due to it not having any real ties to the rest of the season. It sat by itself. This episode sticks right to the story line we've been running with and that makes it all that much better in my book.

What we got here was something Entourage hasn't really explored before. It was almost some like sort of masked social experiment - clients and the relationships they have with their agents from two different perspectives.

Now we knew what was going on with Ari. His life was turned upside down when Vince fired him and as a result, he lost his edge. He became soft, accommodating, and much nicer than we're used to. Well, forget all that. Ari is back. The scene where he finally fired Rob (someone that Ari brought with him from Terence's) was hilarious. The thing is that I didn't feel bad for Rob at all. He clearly wasn't pulling his weight at Miller/Gold. Prior to that, the entire "don't cry... I can't" scene was priceless. Eye patches!

To see Ari break-down (a screen-saver of pictures actually made him tear up) and then bounce back was great to watch though. I just hope it keeps up and we continue to see him on the war path because that's when this guy is at his funniest.

Moving on to Amanda, and the large majority of the episode, we had a completely different kind of client/agent development. The one thing that Drama has sort of been hinting at all along finally came out. It's hard to say "no" to hot women and that became crystal clear when Vince and E finally admitted to each other that neither liked The Glimpses of the Moon. They just said they did because Amanda was so enthusiastic about it.

So jumping ahead, Vince calls Amanda cute after rejecting the script and then she wants to know if he really thinks she's hot. This is interesting because clearly the sexual tension was always there. But Vince isn't going to come out and say something about that. Amanda did almost immediately after she realized that she had the chance to get in Vincent Chase's pants. Now while it was her suggestion to bang each others brains out (why can't I get phone calls like that?), you have to think about how this is going to progress forward. She said they should have sex to get rid of the tension and move forward professionally. So what's the obvious kink in that? It seems likely that she'll fall for him, to the point where it'll smother Vince and he'll do what he does with every woman he sleeps with. Break-up! Thus setting the stage for his come-back tour with Ari.

Other thoughts:

• Loved that both Babs and Mrs. Ari were in this episode. We need more of them. Both always make for good scenes.
• Are we going to get to see Drama on set of Five Towns again?
• Where the heck is Shauna? I know Debi Mazar had a kid and all, but shouldn't her character be around every so often? Especially when her star client is in the midst of looking for a new movie? She's a publicist!

So it looks like we have a better idea of where this season may be going. It would be nice to see Medellín come back for real, but in the meantime I can deal with Ari being Ari and Amanda being smitten. He's going to find out she slept with Vince and it's going to be glorious. So because of all that, and for what I think we have in store, this episode felt damn near perfect to me. So I'm going to give it the coveted TV Squad 7. All episodes of Entourage should be this good.