Vincent & Turtle witness the horrible.
Season 8 Episode 3 ‘One Last Shot’

HBO’s refresher as usual:

My breakdown:
Vincent Chase: VINCENT IS NOT A FREAKING ADDICT!!!….sorry, just had to get it out there. Even after last season’s antics, I’m not convinced that Vincent Chase was any kind of addict. Maybe to sex? But that’s about it. As a result this story line just doesn’t work for me, and to see him helping out another brother in need just doesn’t work either, so I’m kind of glad that Carl Ertz topped himself. Would be great if somehow they got Vincent criminally involved and made him go to jail or something…haha just kiddin’ friends.

Johnny Drama: A little lame this episode, with little Drama action. Nothing too great to mention except for the fact that his new voice-over partner is so bad it’s hilarious!

E: Also on the sidelines this episode..

Turtle: Turtle seems to be doing his own thing this season, and I keep loving it. He’s grown in his own confidence, and I hope he continues on his way up. He’s almost replacing E as his right-hand man.

Ari Gold: Ari going on his first dinner-date in 34 years is just one big laugh, and the fact the he gets with Dana Gordon at the end of it all makes me intrigued about what’s going to be happening next with his wife, family and his agency. Go ARI, I want you to explode motherfucker!! He also got the quote of the episode, as per usual:

I would hack off my penis before I would ever allow you to work with Carl Ertz again

Episode 3 of this final season wasn’t as good as the last, although there are a couple of promising story lines with Ari and Turtle, and I also was hoping E would get back with Sloan to add to that. But seriously I’d like to reiterate that Vincent Chase isn’t a fucking drug addict, he is a pussy cat, and needs to get back to schmoozing the ladies, and adding notches to his belt. Amen.

Ari back to his ruthless best!
Season 8 Episode 2 ‘Out With a Bang’

Here’s a HBO’s refresher just in case you’ve already forgotten:

My breakdown:
Vincent Chase: Really a sideshow this episode. Despite the 20-page outline for his movie idea, there was nothing much to speak of! And surprisingly it was a decent episode at that, and can’t wait for the next.

Johnny Drama: Laughably gets entangled in a plot to walk out on the cartoon show with Andrew Dice Clay, Johnny’s co-star.

E: Presumably the episode was named after his break-up session with Sloan. I can’t believe that she’s possibly been written out of the series, this can’t be true! WE LOVE HER! And finally for once in the entire series, we actually feel for the douche-bag E.

Turtle: Love how he’s getting his own back…

One tequila ad, and the girl thinks she’s Angelina Jolie

That sealed the deal for me, for once Turtle will be able to knock back some bitches.

And finally our main man Ari Gold: We asked for more and we got it, Ari at his devastating best. Look out Bobby Flay, you can run but Ari will find!

One special mention goes to Scotty, Lloyd, Billy (Rhys Coiro), Mrs Gold, and Sloan for being amazing support characters with a few of them even outshining our boys!

The Boys watching it burn
Season 8 Premiere ‘Home Sweet Home’

Here’s the HBO Recap, to refresh your memory:

Well I loved how it started, with the gang all back on our screens, although I really think Doug missed a great opportunity with Vincent going into rehab, that would’ve been an awesome few episodes with the boys getting loose without their man Vinnie.

Here is my breakdown:
Vincent Chase: OK, so he does the Hollywood thing and does rehab for 90-days so he can get out of jail. As I said it would’ve been nice to see him suffering from boredom watching the ‘news’ etcetera, and maybe even fail a couple of times, who knows? One thing I really dislike is him running away from confrontation, is that really his character? Especially getting pissed off at his friends telling/not telling the truth. He’s beginning to look a lot like Golum – my precccciiiiioouuuuussssssss! A fucking weakling. Will be interesting to see what he does next!

Johnny Drama: We see the usual OCD-type that he is. Cleaning his brothers place, and generally doing the funny shit he always does. No surprises their! And that’s the way we like him. Even having his own successful show makes it easy watching for us fans. Finally nothing to whine about!

E: Love that he broke up with his absolutely stunning fiancee Sloan (played by the beautiful Emmanuelle Chriqui). Now that’s a story that will unfold, and I can’t wait to see what happens. Hopefully she gets featured more in this season (if not check out the cheeky 8 Good Reasons to Marry Sloan). E & Scott being in charge of the firm is quality, and definitely has the potential to brew some crazy stories. While Scott is definitely Eric’s chill pill, way fucking cooler and laid back as. He makes Eric look like a dweeb.

Turtle: Now there’s are two things that need to be said about Turtle, one that he’s lost some fucking weight. He must be a machine now. And two, he was offered a fuckin’ threesome! Damn there is some good things to come out of this boy! Looking forward to it!!

And finally our main man Ari Gold: We have a man crush on this guy. Our hearts died a little when he was trying to win his wife back, and his wife slammed him with the fact that she was seeing someone else. We got a hint of his anger when he was after a drink, and I loved that scene. Ari is the center in which the Entourage world revolves, give us more!!

BUT Out of all the positives for each character, and the fact that one of my favorite series is back, I was still a little disappointed in this episode. My favorite part was still the credit song. In fact here it is before I rant too much about the negatives of this episode. I should just be glad the series is back! BOOM!

After their debut seasons for their respective seasons, I was waiting for Entourage to come back and give us back the totally chillaxed, easy going series that it has mostly been. And it saddens me that this will be the final season, but as they says all good things come to an end. And hopefully as a bonus, we’ll have an Entourage film that should go absolutely nuts!

Over the next couple of hours anticipating the first episode, I’ll try make your mouths water even more…. enjoy the ride!

Entourage, and Jeremy Piven have also featured in The Guardian newspaper (UK) in an interesting but rather short article here.

Entourage appeals to everyone who wants to be an overnight success
The Guardian

Update 10/17: Another Jeremy Piven article via The Guardian. A interesting fact, that Jeremy Piven appeared in the Pilot episode for Seinfeld! How awesome!
Have you seen ‘The Goods’? What did you think?
In other random news:

• The REAL Ari Gold has made a feature film call The Adventures of Power starring Adrian Grenier. Absolutely bizarre.
• Entourage made it to #3 on TVSquad’s 10 Favorite HBO Shows. Beating out the likes of The Wire, Six Feet Under and Curb Your Enthusiasm.
• And apparently “the acting just terrible on that show” …Entourage… according to the Boston Globe.

Let’s hope that they start shooting Season 7 soon, I don’t want to be waiting another year for the next season of Entourage. Otherwise I’ll have to move on!

Also I don’t think many people have mentioned, that this final episode of Season 6 was dedicated to June Florence Ellin, born in 1936, who I only assume must be Doug Ellin’s mother. What a great gesture. Condolences from all of us Entourage Fans to you Doug!

The location credits for Season 6, Episode 12 ‘Give a Little Bit’:

Scene: The boys at the cafe when E says he is going to meet Sloan for lunch while Turtle gets a call from Brooke, the UCLA Chick.
[Urth Caffé, 8565 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069]

Vince and Drama run into Matt Damon while shopping for sunglasses.
[Oliver Peoples, 8642 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90069]

E confesses to Sloan that he still loves her.
[The Malibu Beach Inn, 22878 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90265]

Turtle checks in for his flight to New Zealand.
[LAX, 1 World Way, Los Angeles, CA 90046]

Season Finale: Season 6, Episode 12 ‘Give a Little Bit’
With over 2.5 million viewers, this episode was a winner

Now that wasn’t entirely a surprise, the last two episodes have been nothing but the Entourage that we all fell in love with. It’s just further proof that they were fuckin’ great eps.

Entourage ended its sixth season on a high note, drawing 2.5 million viewers, up 21% when compared with last season’s finale, and 3 million viewers overall when combined with the 11:45 p.m. re-airing.
[source: Reuters]

This will surely gain much support from HBO, and hopefully for a great Season 7. I know we’d all love a whole season devoted to Vincent’s shoot in Italy for ‘Enzo: The Movie’, but I’m not so sure that would happen, hopefully they’d give us a few episodes. It could almost be a homage to ‘The Godfather’ when Michael Corleone goes to Italy, and finds his Italian lover, maybe the same could happen to Vincent Chase?

Was that really an Entourage season finale? It was so… good.
[source: tvsquad.com]

TVSquad.com had quite a positive review, saying that Entourage really should have ‘double-length installments more often’, I didn’t even realize it was a longer episode, only by about 10 minutes. Not really a ‘double-installment’ in my books.

Overall, the episode was epic and I give it 5 Hot Chicks Out of 5
[source: tvfodder.com]

One of our competing blogs at tvfodder.com rated this episode a 5 out of 5. Janaki also mentions about Matt Damon’s post-credit appearance, which I totally forgot about in my previous post – “Make sure you stay till the end credits are over for some hysterical moments with Matt”. It is definitely worth it so check out.

Episode 12 ‘Give a Little Bit’ was rated 9.6/10, Superb!
[source: TV.com]

Out of the three community reviews on TV.com, the general consensus was perfectly quoted by user 24treehills: “Good finale to a not so good season…” and with a rating of 9.6 out of 10, I’d say it was a hit.

Time for the usual Doug Ellin’s Inside-the-episode to sum up this recap:

And if you still want more on this episode, I’ll be posting up the location credits soon, so stayed tuned and refresh soon.