Entourage - "Fire Sale"

Last night's episode of Entourage, "Fire Sale," proved that the show doesn't have to be flashy cars and gorgeous women all the time, and perhaps showed that the show could actually work deeper than that. In the previous three seasons, the adventures of Vince and the Gang have always been accompanied by a subplot involving the extravagances of being a movie star. Last night, however, was about the Hollywood game, a plot that has always come secondary to the Hollywood lifestyle.

We picked off right where we left off last week with Eric on the verge of a deal with Amanda for his firefighter script, Vince trying to do all he can to make money and get back in the game, and Drama still being Drama. Vince and Eric were more closely tied together in this episode, as I expected. Everything seemed to be sailing smoothly for Eric until Ari swept in and out of nowhere decided he liked the script and wanted Vince to do it. This pissed off Amanda and apparently Ed Norton, but it seemed like Eric could sell his first script and Vince could get back on the path to redemption. But things were not so simple, as Ed Norton decided to go in on the bidding war, but possibly at the cost of Vince's part. Next week should be interesting as they will undoubtedly figure out how to resolve this problem, probably at the expense of someone's career.

The Drama story this week seemed to have taken a page out of The Office's playbook, making the viewer as uncomfortable as possible as he painstakingly professed his love to his ex on The View. It seems like his fellow cast members were total jerks and solely there to create trouble for Drama, who I still can't tell if they tolerate or not. It's good to see Shauna back in a somewhat frequent role. Her vulgar and brash approach to everything big and small has always cracked me up. Turtle seems more useless than ever this season, barely doing anything other than make wise cracks from the background. Hopefully, they'll bring him out a little more. Other than that though, this was the first completely solid episode of the season. Hopefully more will follow.

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