Deadwood news: [link]

Dan Dougherty (W. Earl Brown) was also a staff writer on the show. Huh.

Yeah, he was a great writer, egoless enough to write episodes where Dan only had perfunctory appearances.

And this talk of good commentary means I need to go back and rerent all of what I've watched so far, to catch the commentary tracks.

I just caught up with the last two Sopranos episodes. It really does have an elegiac feeling, and the hints of The Godfather and The Godfather Part II are nicely handled.

Entourage: It can only end poorly that Vinny and his hot-ass agent may fuck. God, he knows better, but he thinks with his dick.

I loved how close Ari got to crying, though. That was hilarious--staring at the picture of Vincent and himself mistily. And his wife doesn't even blink at the feelings Ari has for Vinny, or the fact that it was basically a breakup.

I loved how close Ari got to crying, though. That was hilarious--staring at the picture of Vincent and himself mistily. And his wife doesn't even blink at the feelings Ari has for Vinny, or the fact that it was basically a breakup.

I suspect that when the show was created (I only started watching last season so I don't know what it was like initially) that Ari wasn't supposed to be such a central character, but that Piven's been knocking it out of the park so much that they had no choice but to enhance his role.

I don't know--from the start Ari is there for about one-half of each episode. He's always been a major player and one of the bigger-name draws for the show.

I don't know--from the start Ari is there for about one-half of each episode. He's always been a major player and one of the bigger-name draws for the show.

Good to know. I really need to catch up on the old episodes sometime (I keep hoping they'll do a full re-run like they do with the Sopranos occasionally).

I did a rewatch over Christmas to pimp the show to Fay, and saw seasons 1-3 all in one big gulp. It was extraordinarily good its first season.