As season 6 comes to a close for the foursome from Queens, it’s apparent that Entourage creator Doug Ellin and staff know how to wrap up a storyline — and get the hell on to the next one.
:: In Episodes 77 & 78 (the season finale), Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) pees his pants during an […]
October 7th, 2009
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Is the world going mad? I can’t recall an Entourage episode with as many strange firsts as Episode 76. We send some Lobby applause over to creator Doug Ellin (who wrote this one) and director (and X-Files alum) David Nutter: This one goes against the grain, but it keeps the storylines moving and keeps a […]
September 22nd, 2009
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How do you reinvent the 1990s slacker for the end of the 2000s? Yeah, he’d still approach life with a half-hearted, who-cares existentialism. Sure, he’d smoke too much dope and drink away the blues. He’d even be too mentally inert to go after his just-departed girlfriend. Meet Jonathan Ames, the protagonist of the snappy new […]
September 20th, 2009
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UPDATE (09.15.09) We received a big bunch of search inquiries about “Rupert Pupkin” so I should explain if you haven’t already found the details elsewhere:
Rupert Pupkin is the bizarre role Robert De Niro played in Martin Scorsese’s prophetic 1982 film The King of Comedy. Pupkin is a delusional weirdo obsessed with a Johnny Carson-type (played […]
September 13th, 2009
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Before you realize it, the 24 minutes of Episode 74 are over. That wouldn’t be a big deal except for the fact that the episode’s two major plot points are story arcs of minimal interest to long-time fans: Andrew Klein’s relationship problems and, oh hey, Eric’s relationship problems.
The first story benefits from two bizarre, over-the-top […]
August 31st, 2009
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