The show is great. Even though people feel like nothing happened there is always reason. For example they do this to built for an up coming episode. This season is great and I am excited for the next. And I'm hoping things get better for Vince. Also if they do it would be interesting in how they will do this.

Almost every series on HBO has this kind of episode. Check out my review - http://arigold.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/episode-5-tree-trippers-review/ if your interested.

this season rocks, and it's had it's 'whoa' moment, when Vince was looking out to the fireman......gave me chills!!!

Anyone who has ever taken shrooms could understand that episode, or where it is trying to take the show. it was a new look and experience for both viewers and the stars of the show. it was boring in some spots, but just to see Ari Gold on hallucinogens was amazing. It gave you a look into all the characters minds and souls. I feel that entourage has nothing but great episodes to end off the season...and more importantly...who gives a fuck what a critic on "tv squad" thinks. the dude has never probably never even tasted a beer and is 30 years old and still lives with his mother or just paid off his first condo; hence the TV SQUAD.

I don't get it.

Entourage has had this kind of episode in _every_ season. Stuff that just looks goofy.

If they'd do 22 epsides every season I wouldn't mind that. I was a bit annoyed with yesterday's episode too, but I think this is criticizing an overall great show while it's still producing great stuff.

I guess the problem here is that there is no progress and people think that this is bad already. But seriously - Entourage ALWAYS had these episodes that don't progress the overall storyline. And LOTS of them. And they were ALL kind of boring except back then they were still something new and we all took it for what it was - another episode of a great show. Now we are starting to get bored with it. Fine.

But compare this to shows like "Scrubs", which was awesome in its first three to four seasons and then... I mean what would have been a good situation to renew Scrubs? I guess, like, never.

I won't have any criticism of Entourage! This show is still going strong. It's funny. Go write something about "Worst Week". Which is just god awful TV.

I agree, the timing couldn't be more inappropriate. While wasting 30 minutes of my life watching last nights episode, I started wondering if the show had anything else interesting to say.
But I guess I agree with the poster who said that it's not like HBO has anything else big going for it right now...

Yeah, because HBO has so many other eggs in its basket...

Last night's episode was great and the season has been good so far. I'm sure HBO had reason for the timing of the renewal announcement.

Perhaps they have know they want that news out there before something happens in a later episode that has people speculating that 5 will be the last season. Either way, it isn't a big gaffe to do it now.

While I still feel that this season on a whole has been pretty good, so was the last episode really boring. It just felt as an excuse to do shaky filming in the desert to psychedelic music, a la Natural Born Killers.

Was there ever a real question as to whether they would get a sixth season or not? HBO is in a bit of slump and Entourage is one of their strongest shows.

Don't be daft, yesterday night's episode was great. Perhaps your dig on it was that it didn't advance the story line too much, but for me that is OK-- I'm just along for the ride. So far, Entourage hasn't dissapointed-- the ride has be great so far. Perhaps you should review the shows and actually tell us readers why you thought the episode wasn't up to par before you issue a blanket statement, perhaps that is too much work for the new "revamped and evolutionized" TV Squad. Though, as a student of biology, the in my opinion, the new TV Squad is hardly and evolutionary step, but rather a failed mutation that if not corrected puts you directly on the path to extinction.