Am I old or is it truly unbelievable that "Entourage" is almost finished with its sixth season? It seems like yesterday the show became the hit series that everyone (not just around the proverbial water cooler) talked about and made plans to watch. The first two seasons were impactful and exciting. Seasons 3 and 4 proved to be overwrought, overwritten and overplayed. Season five set the show back on track and ended with a feel good moment when Vincent Chase became Nick Carroway in Marty Scorcese’s Gatsby. Season 6 ends Sunday night…
This season Johnny Chase has quit his breakthrough role on "Five Towns", a middling drama (no pun intended) on NBC. In search of greener pastures on "Melrose Place" redux, he nearly has a heart attack while auditioning and decides to take a hiatus to heal from the emotional stress of being a star. Vincent Chase bangs virtually every woman in his path, be they from the doctor’s office, a coffee shop, a night club, etc. This provides the much needed nudity content previously absent on the show. Vincent is poised to begin working on Ferrari! If that does not sound cool, what does? Turtle’s relationship with Jamie Lynn Sigler faces numerous twists and turns as his character becomes an emasculated little wimp. Audiences do not EVER want to watch Jerry Ferrara kissing anybody again. Remove that from our screens please. This brings us to Lloyd who has quit Ari’s agency to work with Adam Davies for triple the salary and to become a fully-fledged agent. Unfortunately for Lloyd Ari has bought out Terrance (Malcolm McDowell) and will become his boss again and with a vengeance. Finally, what up E? Eric Murphy has closed the Murphy Group, dated a midget hottie who is a melodramatic actress, joined a real talent agency, and obsessed over Sloan every minute on camera.
Season 6 neither impresses nor depresses. It simply is. Once an unforgettable show, "Entourage" is now an afterthought. Episodes began airing weeks late in mid July, thus taking away its summer time flavor. With football, "Californication", "Curb Your Enthusiasm", "House", and every other major show on television in the fall, "Entourage" has been relegated to the back burner. The characters are stale, and although so much has changed in Season 6, it is hard to feel that anything major has happened along the way. The storyline has been flat, slow moving, and is simply not that interesting. After two seasons of teasing a Vincent Chase meltdown, suddenly everything is great, everyone is rich again, and all ends well? "Entourage" is no longer surprising, dramatic, edgy or funny the way it once was. It is nice that the show continues, but it needs much more than a few boring and predictable episodes to interest the original fans, it needs fresh characters, better storylines, and more comedy. Stop taking yourself so seriously Entourage, because along the way nobody else will.
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