Entourage ended as we all, kind of, hoped it would, with happy endings all around. Unlike The Larry Sanders Show, where the entertainment business was portrayed as hell and you wanted to stay as far away from it as possible, with Entourage you just wanted to hang out with Vince and the crew. In fact it became quite cosy viewing, and I don't mean that as a criticism, something to sit in front of and smile for half an hour. No tense situations and life or death cliffhangers here. Even when it did try to get dark and heavy, Entourage always had a light touch.
That was because the characters were so likable and you were always rooting for them. Superstar Vince, although I was never over convinced by his choice of films, breezing through life. The driven E, pushing to be more than just a member of the Entourage. The highly laid back Turtle, let's face it who wouldn't want to be Turtle? And lastly, for me, the unsung hero of the show, Vince's brother Johnny Drama, loyal to a fault, insecure and over confident in equal measures. The shows acid, although it was acid lite, was provided by uber agent Ari: Jeremy Piven, a Larry Sanders regular emerging from the shadows of almost every John Cusak film. Ari had all of Entourage's killer lines, but beneath it all you knew he had a heart of gold, or that stuff that is like it they sell on QVC.
The final episode did leave a thread dangling for the proposed movie, let's face it if they can make successful films of Sex and the City and The Inbetweeners, Entourage is a shoe-in. After the credits had rolled Ari was offered the ultimate job, the keys to the kingdom, will he take it or stay with his wife in Italy? Only the film, if it ever happens, will decide.
The job was offered to Ari by the ubiquitous Alan Dale. How many of us thought that when Jim Robinson went belly up, in Neighbours, we would ever see Mr. Dale again let alone in just about every American series you can think of. Go on, think of one he wasn't in... No he was in that... And that.
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