Entourage: The Wrath of Gold
November 18, 2008 by Paul Secrest
Filed under Television
There are few things I enjoy more on television than watching Jeremy Piven earn his much deserved multiple Emmys. And on this week’s Entourage, Ari got to blow his top perhaps more spectacularly than ever before. This time the anger gets dialed to 11 when Verner snaps, forcing Vince to do dozens of unnecessary takes and driving Smokejumpers further and further over budget in the process. Vince realizes that Verner just plain doesn’t like him and threatens to quit, but the fussy kraut makes the first move and fires Vince instead. Ari literally flies into action with a little help from Jerry Bruckheimer’s personal helicopter and arrives on set ready to devour the head of anyone daring to make life difficult for his favorite client.
Meanwhile, Turtle has what may be the best day of his life when Jamie-Lynn Sigler gives him a middle of the night booty call, having decided to forgive his indiscretions over their previous in-flight encounter. They have loads of indiscriminate sex and a delightful Cajun brunch, and Jamie spends the whole time telling Turtle about her preoccupation with dating losers. In spite of that, their encounter is actually quite sweet and gives Turtle more opportunity to muse on his past and ponder his future than almost ever before. Turns out that without Turtle’s startup funds, Vinny and the boys never could have come to Cali in the first place. The blissful day almost becomes a blissful weekend, but then Turtle gets a call from Vince rallying his bros for a personal emergency. Back to that in a minute…
To circumvent Verner’s mounting totalitarianism, Ari starts complaining up the ladder to Dana and puts in frantic calls to every major director he can think of in a desperate attempt to put a new face in charge of Smokejumpers. A meeting at Dana’s office goes worse than imagination would dare allow when Verner crashes a board meeting to complain directly to the chairman of Warner Bros. Sadly, the uproar ends not with the studio firing Vince or Verner directly, but rather by pulling the plug on the entire production. Feeling at his lowest point yet, Vince initiates a pact made long ago with his crew that if ever Hollywood life fails them completely, they’ll pull up stakes and return to Queens no questions asked (hence the call to Turtle, which he responds to in true “bros before hos” fashion). With only one episode remaining in the season, Vince’s future is more in question than ever. I only hope that Doug Ellin and Co. will see fit to put a happy ending on this chapter of the Vincent Chase saga because frankly I watch Entourage to escape my fears of unrealized dreams and a failing job market, not wallow in them.
Season 5, Episode 11: Play’n with Fire (originally aired November 16, 2008)
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