Entourage: The Complete Fourth Season

Review By: Dan Deevy
DanDeevy@TheCinemaSource.com

The spoiled brats of Hollywood are back again. After three years of whining and partying and constantly getting everything they ever wanted, and then some how always managing to want more, Season Four finally has something bad happening to these bitches.

Unlike most people in both Hollywood and in life where there are a series of ‘up’s and down’s’ this happily hetero foursome have only experienced the ‘up’s and the up’s.’ Whenever it appears that something bad is looming on the horizon, you know that we are only moments away from them being saved by some amazing stroke of good luck and fortune. It was cute at first but after four years of it, it got old. Actually after half a season it got old, but for some reason we keep watching.

For those of you not familiar with this Mark Wahlberg Executive Produced HBO opus, it tells the story of a group of under educated kids from queens who all move out to L.A. when a member of their childhood group makes it big as an actor. Adrian Grenier plays Vincent Chase the supposed ‘next big thing’ in Hollywood, Kevin Connolly is his best friend and former manager of a pizza place, Eric Murphy, Jerry Ferrara is Turtle the biggest hanger on of the bunch contributing nothing but his ability to drive the others around and finally Kevin Dillon as Vince’s half brother Johnny Drama who has had a less than successful but steady acting career.

This year it’s all about Vince’s ridiculous passion project Medellin; a movie that makes any Lifetime Movie of the Week look like an Oscar caliber smash hit. This was so bizarre to watch because they filmed scenes from it, they cut a trailer for it and the whole time the story is about how amazing everyone (except pizza boy) thinks it is. But as the audience you’re thinking, ‘OK I understand the need for the suspension of disbelief, but seriously, this is bad!’

Fortunately by the end of the season it’s shown that that was part of the point but for a whole season to watch them going nuts over this garbage film got really annoying.

Fortunately, there were a few other things going on as well to distract from this awful film within the show; Eric decides that he’s been mooching off of Vince for too long and decides it’s time to take on another client. As luck would have it Anna Farris rams his car accidentally while driving home from the gym in nothing but a towel (yeah, only on this show). Joining Eric on the journey to be more than just part of Vince’s crew is Johnny Drama as he finally books and keeps a job working on the Ed Burns show Five Towns. Turtle gets into a scheme or two but nothing really develops for him this year around. No more rappers ...