Entourage - "Out With a Bang" Review

IDK Drama, that shirt looks pretty bisexual to me. Even with beasts.

After Entourage's weak and lazy start last week to its abbreviated final season, "Out With a Bang" felt way more like the Entourage of old. With an episode featuring Billy Walsh and Vince kicking around ideas for a film (starring DRAMA, no less), E once again playing the (complete BS) art of seduction with Sloan, and some great classic character interaction between the always-entertaining Ari and Lloyd, this should really have been the season premiere. When you think about it, "Home Sweet Home" wasn't even really that necessary. It could have been established in this episode that E broke up with Sloan, Vince left rehab and came up with a (lame) film idea for him that would end up working better for Drama, and Ari attempted to nose into the newfound love life of his estranged wife. They could have split the plot of this episode across the first two, using the expository parts of "Home Sweet Home" while cutting the excess fat. This episode also featured the return of William Fichtner's Phil Yagoda, as well as a guest appearance by Andrew Dice Clay as himself as Drama's cartoon costar. The one part of this episode that really pissed me off was E and Sloan. Them breaking up again at the start of this season was truly the last straw for me. Sloan has been jerking E's ass around for years, then after he proves his devotion to her, she asks him through Terrance (that old jackass, I better be seeing Malcolm McDowell before season's end) to sign a prenup, basically throws him out, and then has the shit to get back in bed with him? This pissed me off. That is, until the ending, when she told E that she was moving to New York. This isn't the best ending for the two of them, but I hope this is the final ending, as I don't think I can take much more. Not perfect, but a definite improvement on last week, and the first episode to take some real (albeit baby) steps toward the show's conclusion. Only six weeks to go, folks.

"Out With a Bang" - 3.5/5 stars