The fast life of Vincent Chase comes to a halt after his role as Pablo Escobar in Medellin wins him a spot on the black list of studio movies.
The fifth season of Entourage begins with Vince (Adrian Grenier) and Turtle (Jerry Ferrara) on the beach of Mexico with a buffet line of beautiful women.
Convincing them to come home and get back to work is no easy task. His agent, Ari (Jeremy Piven), and manager, Eric (Kevin Connolly), team up to get Vince to go to an interview for a new movie called Danger Beach.
Vince realizes that is career is at stake when the interview turns out to be a cruel joke. Ari and Eric try to score a studio movie, while the guys are trying to learn to live on less.
In the meantime, Leighton Meester returns to the set to win over Vince’s heart once again.
Eric, then, comes across a script for a movie called Smoke Jumpers, written by a couple of hicks. Unfortunately for Vince, Universal buys the script. Vince had been fired by Universal’s President, Alan Grey, while producing Aquaman. This left the studio with a nasty taste in it's mouth and detesting the very sound of Vince's name.
While golfing with Ari, Grey dies of a heart attack and introduces the guys to their golden opportunity.
Ari’s long time friend, Dana Gordon, replaces Grey and gives the go ahead for Vince to perform in Smoke Jumpers.
The director tries to sabotage Vince’s performance by giving away his lines. This causes production is shut down after an outraged Ari takes the matter into his own hands by calling a meeting with Gordon. The meeting escalates when the director goes to Gordon's boss and causes a scene.
Out of work, Vince and the guys head home to Queens.
Eric is able to send director, Gus Van Sant, scenes of Vince in Smoke Jumpers in hopes of landing a role for Vince in his new movie. Sant tells Vince that he would like to work with him, but not in this movie. He assures Vince that he will send the scenes to some colleagues to look at.
Meanwhile, Drama (Kevin Dillon) buys a bar in New York and Turtle starts dating Jamie-Lynn Sigler after meeting her on a plane.
The season ends on a high note when Martin Scorsese calls to offer Vince a role in his remake of The Great Gatsby.
The fluctuation of Vince’s career is not what makes this season entertaining. It is the “in your face” comedy provided mostly by Ari that helps save the show.
As the seasons have gone on, the show seems to have lost its once new and refreshing take on Hollywood. The story of a group of guys from Queens trying to make it has started to lose it's originality, leaving fans bored to tears.
Fans can only hope that the show will be revamped now that Vince has an income. If not, no amount of guest stars will be able to save it.
The writer did a good of summarizing the show, to a point.
ReplyDeleteBut it would be nice to include what channel, network, and time this program is available for viewing.
And this:
'The fast life of Vincent Chase comes to a holt after his role as Pablo Escobar in Medellin wins him a spot on the black list of studio movies.'
A misspelled word in the first sentence doesn't help credibility. And what is this black list?
Details, details and specifics.
Even Jeremy Piven would agree, I think.