Oh, Erika - don't you love Ari?

::is sad::

I love the hell out of Entourage. But that's partly because of Ari, and partly because OMG E/Vince is for the win, and partly because I find Johnny hilarious (and touching) and the Johnny-and-Turtle dynamic cracks me up.

It's kind of like Twelfth Night, only with less malice and more swearing. Well, okay, and less cross-dressing. But just as much gay love.

Yeah, I do. I'm going to watch it some more and see if I think it gets better.

I don't think much actually happens, at least on the seasons I've seen. It just keeps on being a bunch of guys who hang out together. And Ari Gold is love. I kind of like that, though - that there really isn't much going on, other than the boys all loving one another, and messing around, and Ari being Ari. It's fluff, but it's very likeable fluff. With Ari.

So it's not like Will and Grace, with the banter and the punchlines and stuff...because if it was that, I thought maybe I was episode one bored...in that way(and only in that way, maybe, although Hank Hill's got buddies, too,) it might be like King of The Hill, because a surprising amount of KOTH synopses would read "Hank gets embarrassed when..." but it's funny because Hank Hill is totally repressed and strong emotions make him uncomfortable. So, the writers just love dropping him into new fads/subcultures and watching him squirm. And I do know how to say "krav maga" now because Sarah Silverman has it with Mrs. Ari.

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It's fluff, but it's very likeable fluff. With Ari.

Yeah, and I think every now and then it's meatier than actual fluff.

Is anyone else watching In Treatment?

I'm confused. In the last episode Paul was talking about his childhood. In America. Which means that there is no reason why he would have a thick Irish accent.

I've never seen that one, Scola, so I don't know what to say besides "He's Gabriel Byrne." I think I get the Ari love now, as I watched him call someone a "one-armed Marlee Matlin" and somehow was appalled and charmed at the same time.

Tom,

I think you are supposed to hand wave.

somehow was appalled and charmed at the same time.

Ari does that. A LOT. I also swear I heard (probably here) that he's based on Rahm Emmanuel's brother, who's a real-life H-wood agent.