TV-Reviewed

Now that Vince’s stalker problem is over, I was going into this episode a little excited that I wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore and hoping that the episodes would get better. Sadly this episode didn’t meet my expectations, but it was still a good episode – a little slow, but with a couple of good moments to get us through.

This season has been an improvement when it comes to giving everyone else other than Vince some screen time and this season has really given Turtle a little bit more room to step out of Vince’s shadow and develop as a character. I do like his pseudo love triangle he has going on, but the writers haven’t given it enough time for me to really get into it. It just seems to be going at a very slow pace and Turtle is just too nice of a guy for us to think that he would cheat on Jamie-Lynn. I definitely want to see how this continues. With Jamie-Lynn leaving for New Zealand, it’ll test Turtle’s character and we’ll see whether he’ll get into trouble with her gone or not.

Jerry Ferrara as Trutle

Vince really has kept a low key this summer and he seems to be everyone’s advisor this season. The beginning of the episode had him giving advice to Turtle and Eric. His advice is always right, but there’s always a little of Vince’s perverse attitude in it. One example would be when he asked Eric whether he wanted him to move his assistant out of the way for him.

Drama gets a chance of a lifetime when he finds out that there’s a part in the new Melrose Place remake and attempts to get out of his contract for Five Towns. Drama’s speech about not becoming an actor for the money was cool, but it still seems like a dumb thing to do to get out of your contract and there’s no guarantee that he’ll get the part.

Drama enlists Lloyd and Ari’s help in getting out of his contract, which ultimately leads to a mini war with Ari getting the winning blow. Ari has become such a larger than life character that we sometimes overlook how great of an agent he is. It was a cool sight to see how easily he was able to get Drama out of his contract. Drama has been trying to get Ari to sign him since season one, so it ended up being ironic that just when he gets the chance, he ends up wanting to go with Lloyd and who can blame him? If Lloyd gave me the speech he gave Drama I would sign with him also.

Watching Lloyd as an agent is weird because he doesn’t act or behave like any of the agents that we’ve seen on the show. It was cool to see him give orders to his new assistant though and while we didn’t get a lot of time to see him work, it should be interesting to see how he fits in with the rest of his co-workers and whether he really has what it takes to be an agent.

What I liked most was seeing the relationship of Eric and Ashley come to an end. It was starting to get even crazier than before with Ashley asking Eric if she could look at his emails. I have to say though Ashley’s outburst in the restaurant was one of the first times that I actually liked her, even if she was acting like a raging lunatic. Maybe with the end of this relationship, Eric will try to rekindle things with Sloan unless his assistant has something to say about it. To tell you the truth though, I actually believe that the assistant doesn’t really want Eric, but we’ll see if anything comes of it.

This episode was a bit slower than most and even the ending cliffhanger was not very effective at making us want to watch the next episode really badly. I guess if anything though Entourage is pretty consistent, because there hasn’t been any terrible episodes this season. This was again another good episode, just not a knockout punch.

Rating: 7.5