I'm filling in for Josh this week, thereby learning the major difference between just watching an episode of Entourage and reviewing it. The show is a guilty pleasure of mine normally, basically a boy-version of Sex and the City, which means I tune in, look at pretty people doing things I can't, feel nice and don't think for a half hour. Actually writing about it is slightly unpleasant since it's forcing me to acknowledge how little this show really moves at times. Maybe that's why it's so pleasant for zoning out—my brain doesn't have to do much work.
Tonight's episode opens with Vince in bed with a chick who wakes up and hears noises in the house. After investigating, Vince he locks himself in the bedroom and asks her to call 911. Of course the next day, Drama's first reaction is that it was a "fantasy rape sequence" set up by Vince’s overnight guest, so says the guy who wonders if he should bring a fruit basket to apologize to Dan the studio suit for assaulting him, since he's now persona non grata on the “Five Towns” set.
Over at Eric's first day at his new job, it was easy to spot his new enemy at work, Scott, since he sported a shirt opened up to douchebag-depth, wore his hair gelled back and clapped halfheartedly at Eric’s introduction to the meeting. Just in case Eric's new nemesis wasn't painted broadly enough, he cornered Eric after the meeting, told him to stay away from his new-client hopeful, Bob Saget, and in the ultimate burn, told Eric to throw away his apple core. He might as well have pointed to something invisible on Eric's shirt and said "Don't be so gullible, McFly!"
My friend Nathan Rabin opines that whenever a guest star appears on Entourage, he or she magically loses all talent, charm and persona although I think that Bob Saget was not half bad on tonight's episode, showing up for a meeting with Eric and Scottie with a bimbo, talking about doing lines off her ass, what Scottie would do for him if he committed murder, and then asking Scottie to leave his own office so he could talk to E. Saget reveals that he'll sign on the condition that Murray will let him have sex in his office (frankly I would have expected something much more perverted from Saget.) I liked that Bob kept repeating, "I'm serious. I'm not weird," over and over again, as if Saget is really concerned about coming off as weird.