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Entourage: Season 6

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I was dying with Damon and Lebron at the end there.

I agree with everyone else. Good episode. Turtle between two 400 pound bitches on a 14 hour flight was a little cliche, though. Minor quibble.
 

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Ari with the paintball gun was pure awesome.

I'm just glad the whole thing with Sloane is resolved, but I will bet that it isn't over just yet, despite the happy ending. I'm more annoyed by the crap with Jamie-Lynn than anything else. That was a pretty lame way to wrap up that storyline... now Turtle is going to revert to what he was before.
 

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Ari with the paintball gun was great, but Ari's speech at the therapist's office was good too.

Damon's scene after the end credits was another highlight. Definitely worth checking out if you missed it.
 

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Bay Harbor Butcher said:
Damon's scene after the end credits was another highlight. Definitely worth checking out if you missed it.
Was it the 'him and Vince trying to film a commercial' thing that was on YouTube?
 

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Matt Damon is fucking awesome. "YOUR CHECK HAS NOT COME. IT HAS NOT COME VINCE"

Him and Lebron standing there at the end was great.
 
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Jebus said:
O.G. said:
Bay Harbor Butcher said:
Damon's scene after the end credits was another highlight. Definitely worth checking out if you missed it.
Was it the 'him and Vince trying to film a commercial' thing that was on YouTube?

Nope.

Matt Damon In Entourage


HO-LY SHIT. I missed that last night and that is fucking HILARIOUS. When he broke down crying I lost it. Great shit. Thanks for posting.
 

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The Ari stuff was awesome as usual, but they definitely dropped the ball on a lot of the storylines this year. Vince had absolutely no progression (though he had a lot of the story last season), and despite them hinting the entourage was out-growing him, everything ended back to normal. The stalker storyline fizzled and the feud between Drama and the studio exec just ended out of nowhere. The only completed story was E's love life, and that had about six episodes too many devoted to it. Despite parts being awesome, it just seems like a lazy show - nothing ever really changes.
 

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aside from the Aquaman stuff and maybe Queens Boulevard, Vince has never done any growth, and I think thats the point of his character. Eric is trying to grow it seems, Turtle tried and apparently failed, Drama grew a tiny bit,Ari is becoming almost human, and Vince hasn't changed much at all.
 

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I feel like outside of Lloyd/Ari, absolutely nothing happened on this season of Entourage.

Drama switched shows, Vince got famous again, Turtle got and lost a girl he never deserved, and E hastily got engaged. That's a whole season's worth of material?
 

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No one has changed? Really?

Ari actually "forgives" Lloyd, which is something Ari from season 2 would have never ever done.

E didn't really change that much this season because his character doesn't need to change. He is the anchor of the group.

Drama finally gets his own TV show and the years of crap finally pays off.

Turtle hasn't failed anything yet. All he did was break up with his GF.

Vince is back on top after a huge drop. They have done the whole "what movie will Vince do next" storyline ever season. Him doing nothing because he doesn't have to do anything was great.

Once again, I must be in the minority but I still love this show. "He Jason Bourned me!"

Season ranks.

1. Season 2
2. Season 6
3. Season 1
4. Season 5
5. Season 4
6. Season 3
 

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I don't know what people are even talking about anymore. They're complaining about character development in a season...when the entire show hasn't had any...and arguably this season had THE MOST.

Ridiculous.
 

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The characters developed. It just wasn't HUGE developments. But as bps just said, when HAS there been huge developments?

E moved on from his efforts to run a solo business and joined an existing company, finally stabilizing his career independent of Vince. He also got engaged to Sloane and for once chose her over the group. Seemingly a real character development that should lead to him being more about Sloane than the guys, but who knows? It doesn't feel like a lot because he's always been the workhorse and the boyfriend, but it kind of is.

Drama actually had a real change in personality those last few episodes. He found some peace and basically grew up. They really hammered home hard this episode with how impressed the casting folk were and how everyone thought he was unlike he ever was. Presumably Drama's past the pathetic need for stardom and is finally content being who he is. And oddly enough it may have opened the door to making him a star, probably because it was his self destructive obsession that constantly did him in.

Turtle started school, had a serious relationship, and ended it. Its pretty simplistic but Turtle's always been the least mature of the bunch so he basically just went through his first love and heartbreak.

Really, Vince and Ari are the only ones who didn't really mature and you can argue Ari did by forgiving Lloyd. But the "entourage" really did develop probably more than they ever have before. But they're still best friends and the people they've always been. That's not gonna change.
 

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Someone could just rename this one.

I'll keep with the show, only because it's a half hour. It has been just ok the last few seasons.
 

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Jaxxxson Mayhem said:
Well, it showed that Turtle has his own business.

Turtle is the most useless character in the series. Last year they did their Turtle goes to college bit...that lead nowhere.
 

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Yeah. Its kind of rushed but its not like I wanted or needed 2 seasons of him attending school. He went to college to learn how to start his business. Apparently it worked. Now we're going to see if he can run his business, which he's started by setting up a sexual harassment suit.

Drama was the one I was a little disappointed with. The last two seasons have been about him coming into his own, becoming a TV star, falling back into his self destructive ways, but then pulling it together and impressing industry people who in the past didn't like them and getting a deal. So now we're at "I'm unemployed and 8 weeks away from being hopeless because the people who liked me actually didn't like me that much after all." That feels familiar.

But of course its Entourage so expecting change is kinda pointless.

The last scene of Vince walking away with the guys slowly following him was weird. I was wondering if they were trying to set up the story I thought they were setting up last season where with all of the guys outgrowing needing Vince Vince finally outgrows needing them. He did the stunt because all of his friends laughed at the idea and he was hurt, and in the end the only guy who gave him a positive word about it was Cassavetes. I wonder if that was just "possibly concussed and out of it Vince wanders off" or "hurt Vince walks away from his entourage because they didn't support him but he still managed to survive without their support."
 

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If Drama gets any kind of lasting success, the show will have officially jumped the shark. The fact that he is such a tool and has a mega-inflated opinion of himself is one of the major reasons why the show exists to this day/
 

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I thought the last scene may have been foreshadowing Vince becoming an adrenaline junkie but I REALLY hope that isn't the case.
 

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Rendclaw said:
If Drama gets any kind of lasting success, the show will have officially jumped the shark. The fact that he is such a tool and has a mega-inflated opinion of himself is one of the major reasons why the show exists to this day/
See, I don't even think I want him to have REAL huge success. The Five Towns thing was kind of perfect for him. He's a success, clearly, but he's still little more than the star of a middling TV show. TV is something Vince and Co see as the death of his career but for Drama a steady gig is the dream and enough to make him thing he's king of the world. After all, his previous successes were guest stings on Pacific Blue and Melrose Place and 1 season of a syndicated Sci-Fi show. So that he got to be the star of a show about the same level as Warehouse 13 or The Human Target or something like that was really enough. But of course he's still Drama so there'd still always be "drama" with "his bad side", or his love life, or his female leads, or whatever.

Basically I just don't really feel like watching another round of "Unemployed Drama auditions and begs for Lloyd to save his career" any more than I'd want to watch another season of "Eric mopes about what to do about Sloan."
 
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