Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Okay, here are my thoughts on the first four episodes of season three of Entourage. I won't call this a review cause it's not really a review. Just thoughts.
Season Three, Episode 1:
- Mercedes Ruehl is great as Vince's mom.
- Appearance of mom means no "woman of the week" for Vince.
- The two girls that Turtle and Drama want to take at the end might have been attractive, but were in no way "best in show".
- If you do the math, the two tickets Turtle and Drama which were to be used on the two girls ended up being used for the moms. Since Turtle probably used his for his mom and Drama's mom presumably went on a ticket Vince held, that means the ticket Drama wanted to use on the girl ended up being used by E's mom.
- Sloane, whom E is still dating, only makes a minor appearance.
- No Mandy Moore. Not entirely unrealistic since it could be explained that she's out of town doing another film. With the actor playing the title character of the movie able to make the premiere, along with the director and the main bad guy actor whom are both big names, I'd say it wouldn't be too important to have the love interest at the premiere.
- I love that they're giving more depth to the relationship between Ari and Ari's wife.
Episode 2:
- Still no "woman of the week" for Vince.
- No sloane appearance.
- The whole samurai statue thing with Lloyd was great. They need to keep giving him small scenes for him to steal, although I'm not sure if it would work if they ever try to build a full episode around him.
- I wished they showed more of the Aquaman movie. The scene they showed looked great. Definitely big-screen worthy, and possibly James Cameron worthy.
- Two kids on a Vespa following a car in gridlock traffic. The car does a u-turn and the people inside don't notice the vespa?
- At a high-school party that is for the graduating high school class would have plenty of "legal" girls. You have to figure that most kids turn 18 either during their senior year or during the summer after.
- I found it a great little detail that when the host of the party shouted for everyone get in the pool that the first one in was Drama.
- When Vince is on the roof, I honestly was wondering whether or not he would jump into the pool. This was his Almost Famous moment and in the movie the guy jumped. That made me think Vince would jump. On the other hand, unlike in the movie, that wasn't an easy jump. The house wasn't exactly up against the pool. That made me think that he couldn't jump.
- Still more great scenes between Ari and Mrs. Ari. Are we ever going to learn her name?
Episode 3:
- Has Vince given up his one night stand ways? The closest thing he's had to a hookup this season is when he talked about meeting the jewelry store clerk in the first episode.
- Still no more sloane.
- I, like probably most people, didn't like the Dom character, but you got to think that when someone who grew up in a poor, or even middle class, neighborhood becomes rich, especially rich and famous, there will be people that hadn't made contact in decades popping up.
- E mentioned how Dom shows up as soon as Vince's movie opens to be a major hit. Techinically, if it took Dom 4 days on a bus to get there, plus time to get permission to travel from his parole offer, then Dom was coming out even if the movie bombed.
- You'd think they'd time the press event opening the Aquaman ride to be the weekend before the movie so that coverage of the opening would help with the opening. Having the press event happen during the opening weekend doesn't really help as much.
- More Ari family stuff. Still love the scenes with Mrs. Ari. The plotline about keeping the kid away from his daughter has potential to become cliched'.
Episode 4:
- Dom is gone. Good to see him go, but the resolution of his storyline was kinda quick. One episode he's there and one he's gone. Three or four would have been the best, if you ask me.
- Still no "woman of the week" for vince and no Sloane for E.
- I'd like to make a suggestion. For vince, brink back Justine Chapin. Unlike most of Vince's previous girlfriends, their relationship was never brought to resolution. Also, I like the actress from not just this show, but also this show and this movie.
- More great Ari/Mrs. Ari's scene, especially how she repeated his phrase "cuntmuscle".
- Did anyone else notice that, except for skin color, Dom actually looks like Shrek?
Season Three, Episode 1:
- Mercedes Ruehl is great as Vince's mom.
- Appearance of mom means no "woman of the week" for Vince.
- The two girls that Turtle and Drama want to take at the end might have been attractive, but were in no way "best in show".
- If you do the math, the two tickets Turtle and Drama which were to be used on the two girls ended up being used for the moms. Since Turtle probably used his for his mom and Drama's mom presumably went on a ticket Vince held, that means the ticket Drama wanted to use on the girl ended up being used by E's mom.
- Sloane, whom E is still dating, only makes a minor appearance.
- No Mandy Moore. Not entirely unrealistic since it could be explained that she's out of town doing another film. With the actor playing the title character of the movie able to make the premiere, along with the director and the main bad guy actor whom are both big names, I'd say it wouldn't be too important to have the love interest at the premiere.
- I love that they're giving more depth to the relationship between Ari and Ari's wife.
Episode 2:
- Still no "woman of the week" for Vince.
- No sloane appearance.
- The whole samurai statue thing with Lloyd was great. They need to keep giving him small scenes for him to steal, although I'm not sure if it would work if they ever try to build a full episode around him.
- I wished they showed more of the Aquaman movie. The scene they showed looked great. Definitely big-screen worthy, and possibly James Cameron worthy.
- Two kids on a Vespa following a car in gridlock traffic. The car does a u-turn and the people inside don't notice the vespa?
- At a high-school party that is for the graduating high school class would have plenty of "legal" girls. You have to figure that most kids turn 18 either during their senior year or during the summer after.
- I found it a great little detail that when the host of the party shouted for everyone get in the pool that the first one in was Drama.
- When Vince is on the roof, I honestly was wondering whether or not he would jump into the pool. This was his Almost Famous moment and in the movie the guy jumped. That made me think Vince would jump. On the other hand, unlike in the movie, that wasn't an easy jump. The house wasn't exactly up against the pool. That made me think that he couldn't jump.
- Still more great scenes between Ari and Mrs. Ari. Are we ever going to learn her name?
Episode 3:
- Has Vince given up his one night stand ways? The closest thing he's had to a hookup this season is when he talked about meeting the jewelry store clerk in the first episode.
- Still no more sloane.
- I, like probably most people, didn't like the Dom character, but you got to think that when someone who grew up in a poor, or even middle class, neighborhood becomes rich, especially rich and famous, there will be people that hadn't made contact in decades popping up.
- E mentioned how Dom shows up as soon as Vince's movie opens to be a major hit. Techinically, if it took Dom 4 days on a bus to get there, plus time to get permission to travel from his parole offer, then Dom was coming out even if the movie bombed.
- You'd think they'd time the press event opening the Aquaman ride to be the weekend before the movie so that coverage of the opening would help with the opening. Having the press event happen during the opening weekend doesn't really help as much.
- More Ari family stuff. Still love the scenes with Mrs. Ari. The plotline about keeping the kid away from his daughter has potential to become cliched'.
Episode 4:
- Dom is gone. Good to see him go, but the resolution of his storyline was kinda quick. One episode he's there and one he's gone. Three or four would have been the best, if you ask me.
- Still no "woman of the week" for vince and no Sloane for E.
- I'd like to make a suggestion. For vince, brink back Justine Chapin. Unlike most of Vince's previous girlfriends, their relationship was never brought to resolution. Also, I like the actress from not just this show, but also this show and this movie.
- More great Ari/Mrs. Ari's scene, especially how she repeated his phrase "cuntmuscle".
- Did anyone else notice that, except for skin color, Dom actually looks like Shrek?
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