You think? I was glad to see the ducks reappear as a motif, and the Bobby stuff could go somewhere interesting.

the Bobby stuff could go somewhere interesting.

I agree. It just seemed like the whole episode was set up. I got bored with the monopoly game because we've seen Tony do the push-the-limit-cross-the-line thing with his family before.

The ep fell flat for me.

I liked the first few eps of this season when I watched them a couple of weeks ago, but I can't really remember now how the eps were broken up well enough to have an opinion on the premiere. (They were definitely slow going. My favorite bits all involved Christopher and his movie, because Chris' hobbies crack my shit up.)

Ah, I really enjoyed the monopoly game, in large part because my usual Sunday night for a good while was going to play monopoly and watch the Sopranos with friends. I think less set up and more action would have been hard for me to handle after the long hiatus, really. I never did get around to refreshing my memory as to what everyone was up to when last we saw.

Didn't watch the Sopranos (I did DVR, but I'm seasons behind on it, so I probably should just wait for DVDs), but I did watch Entourage. Loved seeing Carla Guigino (sp?) again (I always love seeing her - can we PLEASE get Karen Sisco DVDs).

Can someone tell me why the hell Debi Mazar gets such a prominent credit? Am I not recognizing her or something, because I'm pretty sure I didn't see her at all last night (and I swear she was only on for 5 minutes spread throughout the entire last season).

I hate that I'm missing the Sopranos but we're back to no HBO and my usual connect forgot to tape it for me. I ahemmed a couple of Deadwood episodes that I missed last year and my ISP called me to say that HBO put my ISP address on a list of naughty ahemmers (we agreed that it was almost certainly the fault of the college kids next door taking advantage of my unsecured wireless network, wink wink), so I don't think I'll be doing that anymore.

my ISP called me to say that HBO put my ISP address on a list of naughty ahemmers

Woah, not fun! I've heard HBO is pretty paranoid about that, but so far I've been able to watch my shows without drawing attention. Knock wood.

Yeah, I choked on that a bit. Especially since I was an HBO subscriber at the time but didn't get on-demand, which would have solved my problem. What would be best for everyone is HBO finally working out a deal with iTunes. I'd gladly pay double their normal rate for episodes. Triple, even.

I had this post about how Debi Mazar has been in, like, everything, and she's a really well-known and accomplished actress, and scoring her for a minor role in an ensemble drama is quite the cachet, hence her name being in the main title sequence. But I just watched Entourage, and my mind is a little hazy with glee at seeing these characters on my screen again. I thought it was hilarious how they were treating the whole thing like a breakup. It's just the perfect metaphor that's not even really a metaphor because that is basically what happened.

Dude, WTF about HBO? That's insane, Corwood.

That's no way to treat no citizen, HBO. I too love Christopher the screenwriter...one of my favorite moments comes early on when he says he bought the screenwriting program cause he figured "it would do a lot of it."