If you had to summarise Entourage (HBO’s lightweight but amusing Hollywood-based comedy drama) in one quote from the series, it would be: “It’ll all turn out OK... It always does, right?” As Season 5 gets underway, however, that happy outcome is beginning to look a little uncertain for the boys. With Vince’s Escobar biopic, Medellin, having been roundly panned, his unflappable ardour suddenly seems dented. It’s a shakey start – for the show, too – but things gather momentum by the time Gus Van Sant and Martin Scorsese enter the picture. EXTRAS:3* Short, behind-the-scenes featurette, three episode commentaries. JOHN ROBINSON Latest and archive film reviews on Uncut.co.uk Latest music and film news on Uncut.co.uk
If you had to summarise Entourage (HBO’s lightweight but amusing Hollywood-based comedy drama) in one quote from the series, it would be: “It’ll all turn out OK… It always does, right?”
As Season 5 gets underway, however, that happy outcome is beginning to look a little uncertain for the boys. With Vince’s Escobar biopic, Medellin, having been roundly panned, his unflappable ardour suddenly seems dented.
It’s a shakey start – for the show, too – but things gather momentum by the time Gus Van Sant and Martin Scorsese enter the picture.
EXTRAS:3* Short, behind-the-scenes featurette, three episode commentaries.
JOHN ROBINSON
