I finally had a chance to sit and watch the finale of Entourage’s 3rd season. Leslie and I are avid fans ever since the end of the first season. If you’re not familiar with the story, it’s basically a modern day rendition of the Three Musketeers & d’Artagnan where actor Vincent Chase (Adrian Grenier)makes it big in his first movie role and pledges to take his two best friends and his brother to Hollywood with him, all for one and one for all.

Leslie’s favorite character is Johnny “Drama” Chase (Kevin Dillon). I lean more toward Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven). In fact, there’s a lot of great personalities in the series: Turtle - the loyal servant, Walsh - the eccentric auteur director and Lloyd, the loyal and oft-abused, gay assistant to Ari Gold.  Unfortunately, the main character, Vince, who is painfully affable when he’s not brooding over some woman or not getting his eggs cooked in the morning. But even when he’s being less than pleasant, he’s still milktoast. He doesn’t get really angry. He doesn’t get overly excited. He stays right about middle ground all the time.

On top of that, he’s shown over and over that he’s a terrible judge of pretty much everything. He breaks deals with studio execs, praises terrible films, compliments when he should be criticizing, repremands when he should be grateful. Overall, he couldn’t save himself from drowning in 3 feet of water. Perhaps that’s why he brought his best friends to Hollywood with him. Perhaps he realizes that he completely sucks at life (can’t drive, so he buys all his friends Mazeratis) and wouldn’t last 3-seconds in Tinsel Town without them.

Will I still watch Entourage next season? Absolutely! I may not appreciate the main character being a pussy with terrible judgment, but the support is right on.

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