THIS IS WHY ‘ENTOURAGE’ SUCKS
06.16.09Every time I write about how much I hate “Entourage,” there are a handful of apologists who creep out of the woodwork. “The first two seasons were really good, after that it went downhill.” “It really captures what L.A.’s like.” “I just watch for Jeremy Piven.” “Hot chicks, bro.”
I’m here to tell you that if you’re standing up for “Entourage,” you’re embracing a position as part of the lowest common denominator in society (and that goes for the president, too). As this excellent video from College Humor points out, every week is the exact same thing, and none of the characters ever grow or change as human beings. Maybe that’s the way L.A. really is, but if “The Hills” has taught us anything, it’s that L.A. isn’t the best backdrop for compelling television.
On the off chance that you can’t watch videos at work, Videogum similarly predicted everything that will happen in Season 6 just yesterday:
Vince goes to work on Martin Scorsese’s new movie, but he has problems on the set in the heated conflict of Hollywood egos. Or maybe he sleeps with a beautiful woman and somehow that turns into something mildly dramatic that doesn’t matter. Or both. Ari tells E that he better solve this issue with his “boy” if he really is going to keep calling himself a manager. Lloyd is gay. Ari calls Vince and squeezes a stressball. Vince is so laid back it’s crazy. It’s almost as if he doesn’t even care about being famous. Ari bangs on his desk, he is so angry! Lloyd says something “super gay.” And pouts. E has moved into a fancy new office, because it is six months later and we need to show that success never ends. Insert stilted, terrible celebrity cameo. Martin Scorsese thinks that this movie is going to take Vince’s career to the next level. Johnny Drama asks if there is a part in it for him. Vince buys everyone something really expensive as a gift for being his friends. Turtle gets some “pussy” on the side. There is a pool party maybe? E gets teased for being too nice to women and not just shitting all over them. Ari’s wife is mad at him! So he buys her something! Small condescending subplot about how they are Jewish. 50 Cent is on the show, and it is ridiculous, and awful. Does his cameo have something to do with Turtle’s music management career? No one cares. For one week three episodes before the end of the season there is tension when it seems like maybe something will be taken away from Vince, or as if there are any stakes whatsoever in this show. Within 15 minutes of the finale that tension will dissipate, and everyone will go out for high fives and champagne. The season will end with Vince buying a private island on the moon because of how he has all the fame again. The show leaves viewers wondering whether or not Vince will ever get even more famous and happy.
What they said. If a meteor hit the set of this show and killed all the actors, writers, and producers, it still wouldn’t be enough to satisfy me. The meteor would have to also hit every “Entourage” DVD and the parts of every person’s brain that stores memories of the show, thus removing “Entourage” from human history. I want an Entourage-ocaust.

That is so funny, but entourage rules !
Falling skies sucks. Entourage is still watchable.
Man, mike is bringing this thread back. It is funny to see all the butthurt in the Entourage fans’ posts though. Matt should totally get out of his mom’s basement haha. Clearly they have no idea of the context of the website or of Mr. Ufford. I imagine the Entourage supporters popping their collars as they mumble “haters gonna hate…”
is this the most commented on post in Warming Glow history? Is there an Entourage Fanboy site that redirects trolls here to defend this garbage? How many regular WG readers have both the blog’s normal sensibilities and the sensibilities of someone who would vehemently (entourage fanboys will need to look that up)defend this show. There was a time when Piven’s schtick was not overplayed and a I liked looking at the pretty girls and cars too, that doesn’t justify the continued existence of a stale concept that that has been in a redundant loop for the last 5 years.
@joe
you have no life if you comment on a post that is a year and a half old… do i have no life? yes, but self-awareness is a talent you should learn
entourage is the best show on air. if you dont like entourage you obviously dont know what a good show is. i absolutely defend entourage all the way. and you have no life if you try to shit on entourage
TV can be important b/c of the ideas it promotes. “Mindless Entertainment”, yes, Entourage would qualify. Personally, I think it’s a sucky show b/c teenagers & twentysomethings might think this is the “way of the world”… driving around in SUV’s, banging everything that walks/moves, drugs, apathy, hard work (not), decadence, the vapidness of vanity, materialism… just a shitty show w/ boring characters. Give me The Simpsons, South Park, or Seinfeld ANY day for my dose of “mindless entertainment”.
“Hell is Other People”
i agree! these guys are materialistic losers- and they are not even hot! this show is a masturbatory exccercise of geeks thinking they can get hot chics by driving tacky nouveau riche cars- so boring! there has been some genius on the show- Ari’s new partner played by Gary Pearll signing Sorkin from jail- but this show needs some drama and female characters that arent just dumb sperm repositories- Perry’s character (mrs ari) should cheat on his ass because he’s such an absent husband– and she actually has all the family money behind the agency
It’s like sex and the city but for guys…..
I love how the butthurt fans of a terrible television show, can wax poetic about how much of a loser you’d have to be to insult a television of show on a blog.
WHILE INSULTING PEOPLE ON A BLOG.
Seriously?
For what? Insulting a show you like?
Do you honestly feel that a blog about a tv show damages you enough to come here and display an almost illegal amount of hypocrisy?
What is worse? The “loser” who writes about a shitty show? Or the losers who scan said blogs, all in the name of defending a television show, as if their families have been insulted?
Talk about pot and kettle.
Tylenol Jones is a fucking genius (except for the white trash comment, is it a sin to be white and poor?). Complaining about a show you dont like on a blog is expressing sentiment about the drool (tv) we fill our lives with. Critics criticize, not everyone is a good critic. Dissing this show means caring enough about an art form to care to hold it to higher standards. I myself used to hate this piece of crap, now, i know its crap, but cant wait to hear Lloyd jokes or the extremely awkward scenes that involve minorities (kudos to the nazi casting people). This show is typical, racist, exclusive, American crap. And like the fidler in the last days of Rome, I cant help but watch.
BTW, the losers that googled this topic and then decided to post about hating the author of this blog are just as pathetic as their comments. Since when is it illegal to hate popular shit? WTF is wrong with the human race?
Three boorish, unemployable white trash kids from Queens latch on to their equally vapid but vastly better looking movie star friend and bask in the glory of their newfound parasitic lifestyle. Also they have a psychotic Jew agent. Everyone gets drunk and laid, and while our worthless quartet of bros get themselves into hairy situations every now and then things are always resolved in time for them to get drunk and laid that night. They also are required to encounter several high-profile celebrities doing shameless, half-assed mugging for a quick HBO paycheck on a regular basis.
The preceding was a summary of one of the most wildly popular shows among American male youths, further illustrating why the next generation of American youths will be learning Chinese as their required foreign language.
I agree with jp’s dad. Clearly you all watch the show. Its just finished its 6th and is most likely going to be picked up for another (if it already hasn’t). At least you will still have something to bitch about for another year, and then maybe the dvd releases? Or why it shouldn’t be released on “BlueRay”.
I don’t even know what the hell you are talking about. THESE PEOPLE ARE THE GREAT THESPIANS OF OUR TIME.
You all hate my son cause he keeps racking up on all these awards! Lol I personally enjoy the show & all the cameos are fine with me as well & why hate on 50? He was only on for like 20 seconds lol & for someone who hates this show so much you obviously spend a lot of time watching it to know what’s going on & who’s showing up in it get a life you bum.
Oh, and Piven wears a rug not plugs.
This arrogant, mugging, f*cktard hails from here (Chicago) and I can tell you that he can’t act . . . Piven is Ari Gold and Ari Gold is Piven. I overheard a local bartender tell Piven, “There’s no love for you here, please leave now!”. Perfect sentiment.
The best episode of Entourage is about as entertaining as the worst episode of Just Shoot Me.
Funny critics never make their own productions but complain about others. Bitterness? Jealousy? Annoyance? Envy? Laziness? Meh, who knows, this is only a blog…
Besides, if they get paid good money to do a job they love, what’s the big deal? Wishing death upon them and supporters is an terrible. Did they reject your spec or something?
What you’re perceive to ‘suck’ about Entourage is nothing more than reality. The show itself is well written, but the truth is THAT world is shallow, boastful, arrogant, flashy, sexually promiscuous, ungodly, sinful accepting/abiding; We have manifested ourselves away from nature and God entirely now.. when its completion occurs He will intercede… only then will people STOP IN THEIR TRACKS.. and realize the truth of the calamity brought on to themselves by their very own mind which they have made into an ever accepting haven of acceptable destruction beyond all restitution and not ever cable of repentance. Getting laid is a way of life, eh? It’s the shizz to buy $$$ cars and 20k bottles of wine, eh? Vanity VAnity, everything is Vanity, love is gone; self fulfillment has replaced it.
— Luke 11:13: “…will God not give the Holy Spirit to they that ask Him?” — ASK PEOPLE.. stay persistent and refrain from dressing up to get ogled (stared at; wanting eyes to want you… that’s what that means… to enjoy and also to convey the ‘look’ of lust and ‘want’… it’s what God hates, we’re all gonna die one day, that’s without a doubt? Wake up and think about it–
you guys are idiots. first of all, this really is one of those shows where you should watch it in succession to really enjoy it. yeah, the concepts of the episodes are the same, but isn’t every TV show that way? i think the shows are really well written and the characters are well developed, and likeable. sorry you don’t like the show, don’t fucking watch it, i don’t like broccoli, so i don’t eat it, but i’m not about to start a blog about hating broccoli. enjoy good television.
i watch entourage but i agree its not the best show on tv. not sure how it won anything either and this coming from a fan of the show lol
Entourage sucks, period. Hot girls, okay that’s nice, buy a porno. I can’t stand the lead guy, he’s annoying in everything and looks to be 15 years old. Pivens has maybe one or two movies that I found amusing, not in this. Here he’s a crass and annoying. The rest of the guys don’t do a thing for the show either. The fact that this won an Emmy shows just how crappy our TV shows and movies, in general have become. I’ve tried to like this show and have caught quite a bit of episodes but I give up – It’s really not all that funny. You can chuckle here and there that’s pretty much it. And it’s the same crap every season. I really couldn’t care about character growth but the originality of the show has crashed and burned.
Its a comedy therefore there is no character growth. The person who wrote this sounds like a girl who felt victimized after a one night stand because she thought the guy she was banging that she had just met “loved her”. Now the poor victim is taking their anger out on Entourage and anyone who thinks it is funny. Everything written here could pretty much apply to any show on TV. CSI Miami is so deep & complex…Yeah Right!
I can’t watch the video, but that Videogum dribble now looks even more stupid. The show has actually moved on a little. Nobody takes Entourage seriously. It would be so easy to pick holes in it that it’s not worth bothering, but you did for some reason…
this is why you should watch it http://whatgiveshuh.blogspot.com/2009/07/entourage-is-back_13.html
“L.A. isn’t the best backdrop for compelling television.”
Entourage is such a piece of crap, I thought I was the only one who felt that way, I think your quote above hit the nail on the head, Entourage sucks because the superficial LA scene sucks ass, too.
Perhaps Entourage’s greatest quality has nothing to do with the comedy, or the acting, or even Ari Gold’s rants. Perhaps it might be that there’s an actual comedy with a serialized plot with fun characters, and about the oft fictionalized, yet always talked about media industry. This is no different than any other show that can epitomize the setting in which its based. Entourage is a show about guys, it’s a show that most guys with a life can relate to. If you can’t relate to that, fine.
But what kind of prick attacks the people who like the show? We’ve got no beef with you, and you certainly don’t have the credentials to act like you can intellectually assess us, and start beef with us, so do everyone here a favor, and shut down this perez hilton esque blog. And stop being a drama queen.
To the dude who wrote this blog:
“you’re embracing a position as part of the lowest common denominator in society” -That’s what you said in reference to those who LIKE ‘Entourage.’
Let me point out the obvious. Those who spend their time writing about TELEVISION shows on little blogs of no significance are the ones who represent “the lowest common denominator in society.”
Think about the purpose of television- it’s to entertain. TV lost its educational and strictly news media function in the 50s; Just look to Edward Burrow’s editorials from back in the day by CBC.
Enjoy the show, embrace it for what it is- mindless entertainment (which is all TV is anyways). Now, I know you try to make TV more important and significant than it really is; it is after all your livelihood, sitting in your mom’s basement, playing on the computer. Get a grip, a reality check, a cold glass of water splashed in your face. Now go write about something more important (you could do a brilliant and tragic blog on how you’re middle-aged, a virgin, overweight and without any real friends… no, your World of Warcraft friends don’t count).
“(and come on…E at least has some stuff going on).”
Has to be the gayest thing ever written. With “Entourage rules” coming in at #2.
Entourage rules. If you don´t like a tv show just don´t watch it. It´s pathetic to criticize it with such an anger. I actually think you can compare Entourage to Seinfeld because both are great shows. Ps: funny video.
The thing is more formulaic than Scooby Doo. Here I speculate on the future storylines.
http://chaosoutoforder.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/vince-can-do-da-movie/
wow. i never thought anyone would be so bitter about not getting the part of lloyd’s bottom
Then don’t watch it.
Stop complaining you sad losers.
No need to drill a hole in your TV, just check the back.
p.s. Your comment made me jizz in my pants.
Bobman, your mother watches Michael Bay movies!
everyone that is hating on this show probably also watches star trek and every show on the sci-fi channel. seriously get a life you fucking losers, who really cares, the shows hilerious and obviously alot of other people agree plus the fact that it has won many awards….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Entourage_awards_and_nominations
Video was hilarious. This show sucks ass. Remember when Jermey Piven was on Seinfeld, before his hairplugs? The guys that like this show are the same as every dork that went to college, joined a frat and became an even bigger douche bag.
this is perfect…I fell the same way about FAMILY GUY. I say it’s ok because everyone thinks it’s brilliant. I actually think it is so cheap and easy. SOUTH PARK blows that how away.
And as a second note, that video from college humor isn’t even funny. I love a good parody, even when it makes fun of things I enjoy, but I couldn’t waste another second watching that piece of crap. Hey, wait a sec, I bet the author here saw this video and thought THIS was ACTUALLY The Show. NOWW it all makes sense. Case closed, we can all move on with our lives.
JOHNNY DRAMA IS MY IDOL!
This guy sounds like a bitter middle age loser that tried to make it big in the movie biz himself, but never amounted to anything. So instead he watches this show in anger and jealously with the ole “that could have been me” attitude. Seriously man, get a life. TV is an escape and a guilty pleasure for most. There isn’t a show in the world that EVERYONE loves (well, maybe Lost – come one say one bad thing about lost… you can’t!), and I’ve seen some real pieces of crap out there. Entourage is not the greatest show of all time, but its excellent entertainment and enjoyed by most. To the writer of this blog – chock on a cock you bitter loser and enjoy a life of misery. what a fcuking cry baby.
I wish blogs would be ethnically cleansed. Oh look at me! I know how to use a computer and my opinions are important.
Entourage is and has always been (besides the writers strike) a summer show. Now, let’s take a look at the programming that also runs during the summer so we have some ideas of what it should be compared to:
I’m a celebrity, Get Me Out of Here
So You Think You Can Dance
Wipeout
I’m Survived a Japanese Game Show
Repeats from last season…
You enjoy those deep thought provocing shows, I’ll stick with Entourage for the summer
Entourage is just the male version of Sex And The City, but set in LA.
Womens fantasies = unlimited money for shopping
trendy, hip places
one rich man who will love you forever
Mens fantasies = unlimited money for partying
new cars, different bars
sleeping with as many hot women as you can
on a constant rotation
I’m glad there is a random ass blog where morons can be critics. wait… that’s everywhere. And if you don’t have anything intelligent to say besides “IT SUCKS!” then don’t bother posting. The easiest job in the world is to be a critic, because all you have to do is rip things apart when you obviously have zero points of relevance to offer. “Lets see…. I don’t really have an opinion on this matter, but for the sake of being a critic…. THIS SUCKS! WORST SHOW EVER! ahhh, there we go. negative comments DO sound intelligent!”
Your synopsis is actually dead on – but said synopsis is also the reason why the show is great. You’re an idiot.
You have to be a douchebag to spend your time ripping on Entourage. It’s a parody suck nuts – it’s not supposed to be intelligent, thought provoking TV – because Hollywood isn’t intelligent or thought provoking.
And the real reason I hate it: Hookers are NEVER KILLED during the course of any episode. I mean, what a bunch of morally depraved perverts.
Entourage fucking sucks. Its entertaining for a little bit but theres really no story, its 4 doushebags getting laid each week. If I wanted to see hot chicks i’d watch a porno. Being “mindless entertainment” isn’t a defense.
Mindless entertainment has to actually be done well to be good. Entourage is not done well.
And whoever compared it to Seinfield up there, I weep for you.
I stood up for entourage once, it stole my seat and boned my girlfriend.
You know, I hate to say it, but before it was cool to hate Entourage on blogs, and before the end of the second season, I actually did like it. The first season really wasn’t absolute shit. Maybe I was taken in by the alluring life of luxury and all the fucking that went on, that might have been it.
That said, Three quarters through the second season it became painfully obvious that the dramatic swells repeat each other, and that they keep shoveling the same ol’ shit.
I couldn’t even watch any of season three, and left the room when the wife had it on.
I enjoy tits and Jeremy Piven, but Drama is fucking annoying, no one in their right mind would act like Vince does in regards to a career, and E is a little faggot with short mans. Turtle is every hip hop stoner I’ve ever met.
Nice cars and hot tits can’t save this show now.
@Duke of Madness,
I hate to defend Jeremy Piven but: Grosse Pointe Blank and PCU would disagree.
The show has Jeremy Piven in it? Case closed.
Anything that Piven is in is made worse by his presence. In fact, I think you could just come out and say that anything with Jeremy Piven in it SUCKS, and does not deserve to exist for another second.
The accusation: “This isn’t a very good show.”
The defense: “It’s not meant to be, bro.”
Rock. Solid.
I wasn’t comparing the shows. Just that the complaint in the editorial can relate to both. All of your arguments here are valid…but that still doesn’t change that the show is not being anything more than it is. It’s not trying to be Citizen Kane, it’s, as someone pointed out earlier, the Michael Bay of TV. It’s fun, funny, short and what it’s what guys wish their lives were actually like. It’s escapist. It’s comic books. Big deal if the characters are vapid (and come on…E at least has some stuff going on). That’s not why people watch it.
I just started watching the show a couple of seasons ago and I think it’s entertaining. I’m not sure what this guy wants. It’s a comedy, it’s not a drama. It shouldn’t be any more real than a Reno 911! or something like that. It is what it is. A mindless comedy that makes you laugh hard four times per episode. What do you want from the show? As for the dude who is going to rape his TV… Maybe he needs to write for the show because that was funny.
They should call this show, “What every midwesterner thinks everyone’s life in LA is exactly like”
I saw a couple of episodes of this show. The last one I saw was where the fat guy gets a pair of golden shoes with graffiti on them from some Jap.
That was the whole damn episode. I was so mad that I watched it, that I almost raped my tv. I was going to drill a hole in it and then rape it.
Really, LazerWolf? You really want to compare Entourage and Seinfeld? REALLY? The most successful, critically-acclaimed, universally beloved comedy in television history is just like the premium-cable show about Mark Wahlberg’s sweet Hollywood life? The inspiration behind every sitcom of the past 15 years is just like the show with the flamboyant gay Asian and the intense, money-hungry Jewish agent?
The only similarity between the two shows is that the four main characters are reprehensible assholes with no moral code or sense of reality. Except in Seinfeld, you weren’t supposed to like them.
Four words bro:
Emmanuelle Chiraqui
/hi fives around the room
Some of the guys who made Seinfeld are behind Entourage, like Seinfelds characters they aren’t mean to grow or change otherwise there’d be no show or at least they couldn’t re-tread the same material over and over.
There’s no reason to “defend” it. It’s the empty calories of the TV world. A Michael Bay movie. You watch it for the pretty scenery and the occasional laugh, and if you think about it what you’re doing for more than 3 seconds you want to kill yourself. Seriously, who takes watching TV this seriously? There’s good stuff like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc, and there’s vapid nonsense that we watch because it’s a pretty moving picture.
I just watch it because I’m a huge fan of Mercedes Roule.
I seem to remember another show where the characters didn’t seem to “grow” and the same stuff happened every week. Seinfeld. Suck it. Who the hell watches this show for character anyway? It’s about jokes set in a world that most of us can only watch and not participate in. You miss the point.
Dammit everyone, this show is television’s best exhibit on the art of acting.
uh um, I uh really enjoy uh, Mr Pivens uh uh work. Hes great in um, um, whatever uh hes um in.
Burnsy for the win.
I watch it but I will absolutely not defend it. I guess I just want to be watching when Adrian Grenier is ethnically cleansed.
Yep the president likes Entourage. THE PRESIDENT OF HOMOS!
People who like Entourage thought Joey was too hard to follow.