Entourage is a show that's supposed to be about a budding movie superstar and his "entourage" of friends. (If you don't know the show stop reading right now, crawl back into your cave, and drop the rock back on top of you [hopefully killing you]). The focus of the show, however, has up until now primarily focused on the friends. I always considered Eric "E" Murphy to be the real "star" of the show. Vince, the movie star, has always played a lesser role mostly acting as a vehicle to create story lines that the other characters had to deal with and act out.
Season 5's second episode seems to signify a change in the focus of the show. We were given more of an in depth look into Vinnie's character than we ever have before (previously Vince's trist with Mandy Moore was the most soul we ever saw from him). The normally go with the flow Vince started showing some emotion about his floundering career and even went so far as to take some initiative in his actions. I think the show is gonna take a new direction featuring Vince and Eric, Johnny Drama, and Turtle are going to take a backseat.
Personally I think this approach is a mistake. Having Vince as a brainless, useless, lazy, superstar is the way to go. Furthermore, the show shouldn't feature anyone in the entourage. The show should be all about Ari, the undisputed show stealer of the series. Or what they should really do is create a spinoff show for Ari. Vince and the entourage could show up as guests every once in a while, and we would get all the Ari Gold rants we could handle. Suck on a bag of dicks HBO (and for the love of god bring back Lucky Louie).
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