Entourage Season One

American Cable channel HBO as consistenly provided quality programming from The Sopranos, Oz, Six Feet Under to The Larry Sanders Show and Curb Your Enthuisasm. There programming as always seemed to different to other American TV shows (maybe cause swearing is allowed as is nudity). Entourage is about Vinct, Chase (Adrien Griener) a rising star in Hollywood, his best friends join his entourage. Meet Eric (Kevin Connelly), Turtle (Jerry Ferrera) and Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon): three guys from Queens dedicated to helping their film-star buddy Vincent navigate the absurdities of modern-day Hollywood--where sex, parties and super-agents rule the town.

It's fair to say Entourage is nothing special in it's genre- Hollywood on TV as been done better before but it's a fairly decent entry into the genre- it really offers nothing new within this first season, which is only eight episodes long, the dilemma's (though there's the use of bad langauge) sometimes seem slight (Vincent doesn't want to go to a High School reunion, going on a talk show etc) and the overall story arc doesn't grab the audience enough.

Jeremy Piven is excellent as Vincent's agent Ari as is Kevin Dillon and some decent guest stars pop up including Mark Wahlberg (who executive produces), Jessica Alba and Larry David, and Monica Keena, Debi Mazar and Samaire Armstrong have memorable recurring roles. Adrien Griener whilst probably easy on the eyes for the girls is pretty bland in the lead role that needs to exuberate charisma. Overall, pretty good I'll probably buy the next series if it comes out on DVD, I like it enough, the acting is pretty much strong and there are some good jokes there.

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