TV series review - "Entourage" Season 3 Part 1

The HBO gang keep the standards high with another excellent installment of this series. Vinnie Chase becomes a big star with Acquaman - although I maintain this wouldn't make him a really big star in the way that say Ace Ventura made Jim Carrey a star, people would think Vinnie was carried by the property and James Cameron. There are some lovely moments, like when Vinnie makes the nerds day, when the moms come out to LA, Martin Landau as an old producer and Beverly d'Angelo as a tough agent, the Lloyd-Ari scenes (I so want Lloyd to become Johnny Drama's agent), the 13 year old kid who goes for Ari's daughter (this show is brilliantly cast), the hot threesome episode. Kevin Dillon again brings this wonderful car crash quality to everything his character does and Seth Green is a lot of fun. Some wonky bits - after a while Turtle became too greedy (the thing with the shoes got to me - you don't need shoes, Turtle, this is false warmth), Ari going to Vegas felt wrong (they didn't give him a good enough reason to go); the arrival of an old friend to the gang was a bit distressing, though of course that was the point - it just made the show a little less fun to watch for those episodes. Still great fantasy TV.