Entourage Season 2 created by Doug Ellin (2005)
14 July 2006I am still kicking myself for not starting to watch this show when it first came out and my mom told me I should watch it, and now I own the first 2 seasons on DVD and am avidly watching the 3rd on HBO. Damn this is a great show, and it really shined in the second season with characters of Johhny “Drama” Chase and Turtle really coming into their own, and not just staying second fiddle to Eric, Vince and Ari. My only complaint with the DVD is the bonus features are minimal, with only a short behind the scenes done by Mark Wahlberg when I would love to see something more extensive, but then these were inexpensive HBO dvd’s so…
Anyway, if you have not seen this show, about a movie starting getting huge in Hollywood, his agent and his entourage of 3 friends you are really missing out on something great. I am still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this is Deadwood’s last season, and that the last season of the Sopranos sucked, but at least we have Entourage, and hopefully the second season of ROME will live up to the first.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
The boys return from New York and their low budget indie QUEEN’S BOULEVARD that Vince (Adrian Grenier_ starred in for next to nothing, and
Eric (Kevin Connolly) is officially his manger, and with the help of Ari Gold (Jeremy Gold) it is time to find Vince some more work. Ari has zeroed in on the Warner brothers film Aquaman, though Vince is not keen, wanting to do a film about a South American drug lord for the director of Crash, Paul Haggis.
Vince gets a free Maserati and gives it to Eric as his manager to drive, and Eric goes to see his ex who he is back with and blows a chance to sleep with a perfect ten model, and yet his ex was cheating on him the whole time he was gone.
The boys lease on their house runs out so they decide to look for a new house, but Vince goes for a mansion that is way out of their price range unless they take Aquaman, so Vince agrees, much to Ari’s delight, but things turn sour when Eric finds out Jim Cameron is directed, and now it doesn’t even look like Vince is in the running. Cameron agrees to see QUEEN’S BOULEVARD, but the director Billy Walsh (Rhys Coiro) won’t release it so Cameron will have to see it at Sundance like everyone else.
When they need money Ari gets Vince a Chinese commerical where Vince is trained in martial arts and other things by Li Lei (Bai Ling), and gets a cool million for his time.
Then the boys head to Sundance, and the film does very well, but Cameron walks out after 10 minutes. Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) and Drama (Kevin Dillon) hone in on the same girl and end up in a three way, and things work out when Cameron agrees to have Vince star.
Things again look bad when it turns out the now engaged Mandy Moore is going to be Aquagirl, the only woman who Vince ever fell in love with and lost it over, and he still loves her, and she still loves him, and the movie is almost ruined, but Vince goes for it. A highlight is when the head to comic con, and Drama is a hero because of Viking quest. And Turtle finds a CD in their stolen Maserati of a rap artist and starts managing a rapper named Saigon.
Eric finds new love with Sloan, the daughter of Ari’s boss, and ends up on the outs with Vince when Vince wants to quit the movie because of Mandy and possibly ruin his career, but when he finally goes to quit he can’t do it to Cameron.
*****
What a great show. And this second season is ever better than the first, with more famous cameos, and better character development rounding out the cast and making you really love these characters.
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