VIKING QUEST: The other show that's returning to HBO on Sunday is Entourage, which remains a male wish-fulfillment fantasy with The Piven's performance and Johnny Drama in the Vegas episode as the only things worth watching. As Isaac noted in August 2005, "It is SATC with guys instead of women, less sentimentality, and modestly more plot. In other words, instead of being a gay man's fantasy about what it's like to be a fabulous woman in NY, it's an adolescent guy's fantasy about what it's like to be hip in LA."
As Sepinwall notes, the show's lack of introspection can be a real disappointment, as Vince's bad choices (in women, in roles) remain consequence-free: "[T]he writers don't want to acknowledge how Vince's laid-back impulsiveness has derailed his career at least as much as Ari's behavior." It will be a weird chaser to The Sopranos this season, no doubt.
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