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After I watched the Matt Damon thing I realized that while I won't always think of Kevin Dillon as Drama, I can't imagine ever seeing Adrian Grenier as anyone but Vince.

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I looked at Grenier is The Devil Wears Prada as Vince acting in a movie.

Me too. I saw that movie before starting to watch Entourage. When I started watching Entourage I had forgotten that AG was in it. We watched the movie again a month or so ago and it really did seem like it was Vince playing the character not Adrian playing a character.

I feel like Entourage is pretty spot on with some of the songs/music they play in certain scenes. For instance, this past week when Ari entered the other agencies office. When "its me b**ches" played it just made that scene a little better.

Another example is when Drama stormed out of the Hotel Room in the Vegas episode after the masseuse tried to hook up with him.

I rewatched the Doors a few weeks ago, and there was Drama...


I'd rather light a candle than curse your darkness

His best work is in Heaven Help Us.

You young'ns need to check it out.

Great episode - Terrence is always good. They could go all next season with Ari going through a line of receptionists.

And for anyone else who grows tired of watching some of E's scenes, I highly recommend the Bill Simmons viewing technique of constantly comparing E's height to inanimate objects as he walks around. Biggest giggle was when he and fellow midget Scott Caan were standing together while being towered over by an office credenza.

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Looked at the guide it looks like tonights episode is 45 minutes instead of 30

yeah, my guide said 38 minutes

atleast it wont be 21-23 minutes like the rest of this season

Wow. A few twists for sure.

It doesm't end any better than that!!! Damon, Bono, Lebron, all I can say is WOW!!!!

I love the paintball scene!!

Ari is awesome!

Finally something between Sloan and E. Either they get married or Sloan gets off the show.

Lloyd came back,that was good. I like him.

And Jamie and Turtle broke it off, something finally changed, although it would of been okay if she took him back, but I just didn't see that coming.

Great Episode, wish the whole season would of been like this and the last couple.

Until next year.

Holy crap! Ari Gold is the biggest BAMF alive.

Ari is at his finest in the therapist's, with Terrence, and at TMA. Drama is getting a starring deal. The Damon appearance was outstanding, nice cameos by Bono and Lebron. I liked the quick appearance by Kenny D, as much as they've talked about Marquis it's about time he appeared.

Great finale.

I was a little disappointed when the show rating showed no nudity b/c that meant ucla girl was going to have clothes on...

How hot did Sloane look in that white coat with one button holding it all together.

I loved that episode, but Turtle should have nailed the college chick.

great finale

i agree with sentiment wishing the rest of the season lived up to the standard they put on the last two episodes

ari with the paintball gun was nails!

Ari with the paintball gun was classic. Great finale. Left me wanting more.

AWESOME EPISODE!!

CAN WE F IN HERE???

Paraphrasing...

Ari: Who's your biggest client?
Agent 1: (Speechless)
Ari shoots Agent 1
Agent 2: I represent "John and Kate + 8"
Ari shoots Agent 2

Tonight's episode was excellent. Along with last week's, amongst the better of the series. That said, here's how I felt about the season as a whole...

The show is a comedy by definition, but it doesn't fall in line with your typical TV comedies. The Office, 30 Rock, and the like, make hilarious comedy out of situations, and as such, are sitcoms. This show, however, is not funny enough to entertain us with it's comedy (evidenced by the fact that the funniest things about this season were the Matt Damon outtakes, as posted above in the youtube clip and at the end of tonight's episode, which weren't even included in the episodes, and real LOL moments are few and far between, minus Ari in the last 2 eps). As such, the series is defined by it's entertaining series plot lines laced with a fair amount of comedy and signature HBO sex and profanity.

So for me, a successful season needs decent story arcs to carry it. At the end of the day, the only character that really got a decent story arc over the season was Lloyd. Freaking Lloyd.

I'll start with Vince. Vince was ignored this season. In theory, I'm fine with this. Vince isn't the main character of the series. (Over the course of the series, it really is E and deserves to be Ari. That's why Connolly is considered a lead actor in the Emmy race each year, and Piven wins Best Supporting Actor year in and out- because he routinely steals the show from the alleged "lead" and makes it worth watching.) It's not like there weren't stories for Vince. Gatsby gets huge buzz, there was allegedly awards potential in the first 2 eps. Why not show us Vince going through the awards campaign, whether successful or a huge failure, to give him something interesting to do? He literally did nothing ALL season, other than look bored that everyone else had other things to do than hang out with him. As stated earlier, the reason I'm fine with Vince being ignored in theory is that he's not the main character and is the least interesting character on the show. It's fine for him to be ignored if the other characters have good storylines.

Which brings me to E. At the start of the season, the alleged "theme" of the season was that characters, particularly E, were growing up. Ultimately, that was a load of bull ****. E had some sort of romantic comedy/Fatal Attraction hybrid storyline where he ultimately realized that Sloane (extremely hot, and the heir to an Ari-purchased $75M+ fortune) was entirely too good for him and he should keep that if possible. Which every one knew about 4 seasons ago. He in no way "grew up". He got a new job at a management firm, ripe with story line possibilities. The only thing that happens is that he gets a secretary who is possibly hotter than any other female to appear in this series for more than one episode and is wasted, and a few funny scenes with Bob Saget. Every season of this series has had an arc, and this season's was allegedly growth of some characters. I expected a lot of people here to ***** about that. Turns out, it didn't happen. It was replaced by "no arc".

Turtle was the other character who was supposed to grow up. He was also thrown into something of a romantic comedy storyline which reeked of nothing but giving his washed-up real life gf a job. He went to a few classes and met a hot sorority girl. But again, a waste of screen time as Jamie Lynn was worthless and an unbelievable and unentertaining story.

Drama finally got to be Drama the last half of the season. The story with the NBC executive was blown- a lot of entertainment value of him doing terrible things to Drama was wasted. Classic Drama finally appeared in the last 2 episodes and it was great. Why couldn't we have gotten more of that the rest of the season? After Piven, Dillon is the best thing about this series, and he was completely underutilized until the end. The conclusion of the story was pretty stupid to. The CW (the "network" putting on the Melrose remake) offered him a talent holding-deal for a new series. No way. They don't have an actor under 30 on that network. It was a stupid conclusion, but the least of my complaints about this season.

WestTxAg06 has long lobbied for a MGA spinoff. While it will never happen since it isn't really commercially viable, as he and I and about 25% of this series' audience would entertained by agency antics alone in a series, it's about the only thing that would interest me at this point. Ari had little more to do than Vince this season (the last 2 episodes excepted). His storylines are generally driven by Vince stories. When Vince didn't have anything to do, Ari wasn't given anything to do. Complete underutilization, as we have seen Ari in some great non-Vince stories (particularly his break from Terrence). They somewhat redeemed in at the end. But what is the reason for not giving us more of this type stuff? Klein was briefly used, then brushed aside. We got nothing with Mrs. Ari until the end. He generally carries the show but wasn't given a chance to this season. Which makes no sense, because the storylines they chose to replace his screen time with were complete garbage.

I don't like to be an extreme complainer, this season just really fell flat for me as a whole, and the series really showed it's age. The last 2 episodes were a successful redemption attempt, but when a season is only 12 episodes and 6 hours long, there is no excuse for not drawing out a tightly-plotted story. Next season will be #7, and few shows of much higher quality have managed to make it farther than that. Since they are clearly running out of stories and aren't going to use MGA- the one place with ripe storylines- to carry the series, I'd say it's time to declare 7 the last season and go out with some sort of a bang.

You need to get laid.

Ari pelting Adam Davies reminded me of Sonny's death in "The Godfather." It just went on and on and on....

Everytime Matt Damon was on screen was just GOLD! I love how he loves f-ing with his image in things like this and with Jimmy Kimmel. Anyone watch past the credits? That was the best scene in the whole episode. "I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAVE AN OSCAR AND I'M CALLING YOU BACK!!!"

This was a fantastic episode, and the way it ended, it seems like they are nearing the end of the series. It felt like the characters are reaching the end of their arcs.

"Congrats! You're finally a real Asian!"
Ari: "It was supposed to say 'Agent.'"

matt damon killed it!

I wrote my line about Damon being outstanding during the credits. And then the phone scene happened. Damon might have just set a new standard for awesome cameos by celebrities. His pressuring Vince throughout the episode was great, but his yelling, then crying, and then apologizing on the voicemails absolutely KILLED. I love a celeb who doesn't take himself too seriously and will do stuff like that.

20ag07, I agree with a lot of what you wrote. I consider this season a success because it was better than 4 and 5 and finally got Vince back on top and living the good life (which is what I mainly wanted to see). I think the show's biggest problem is that it has too many good plotlines and not enough time to fully develop them all, not it in a 12 episode season and not in a 23 minute episode. If they're trying to show E and Turtle "growing up", then that cuts out time that could be spent on Drama being ridiculous and Ari being awesome. And then, behind that, there's also Vince's life too, not to mention other plotlines you could develop with Eric at the management firm and with the rest of Miller Gold.

Part of me thinks that this show, in its current state with all that going on, could be best served by hour-long episodes, but I fear that if they extended the episodes they'd end up with a lot of mediocre filler.

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That's my main complaint, especially the 12 episode season.

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This is true. My problem is that this season, they threw some decent stories up as potential plots, then never developed them, and instead replaced valuable screentime with some crap.

Jamie-Lynn and Ashley were a complete waste. It's fine to have "filler" if you need it. But ultimately, those storylines just kept us from getting the good stuff. E at the new mgmt firm was full of potential- particularly Scott Caan as an adversary. But he just took a job there, and then the story was never touched again. Why bother showing that if they weren't going to develop it, and instead just give us more Ashley? Was the entire point of that storyline to make him believable as "marriage material" for Sloane in the finale? It just made no sense.

They dropped good stories, focused on the wrong ones, and so the season just had kind of a "half baked" feel.

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They dropped good stories, focused on the wrong ones, and so the season just had kind of a "half baked" feel.

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That's a great one-sentence summary of what they did wrong. The season was still a good one, and it finished great, but they missed the chance to have a truly great, legendary season.

Damn, am I the only one who didn't like the Matt Damon scenes? I thought it was a little forced and disjointed. But otherwise, great episode. Outstanding in fact. It almost felt like a series finale to me.

Damon was hysterical. I loved the look on Drama's face when Vince said hello to Bono. I think he creamed his pants.

"do it for the kids, Vince"

the Damon scenes were effin hilarious

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I loved the look on Drama's face when Vince said hello to Bono. I think he creamed his pants

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Holy crap! I had forgotten about Drama's U2 love.

Me too. It took me back to when they were trying to get into the U2 show at the Staples Center and Drama had the Ireland flag draped over his shoulders.