Entourage 6.4 (Spoilers)

The fourth episode of Entourage's sixth season might come to be known to me as the beginning of the end for the show.

First, the one thing I really liked about the episode. That being the cameo by former "Friends" star David Schwimmer attempting to get work on a new television pilot. He was one of the best cameos they have ever had on the show.

The other thing that was a mix of both good and bad was the attention paid to Andrew Klein, the agent in charge of TV at Miller-Gold who is also having an affair with another agent. Klein tells Ari that he broke it off with the female agent, but later melts down in a meeting with Schwimmer when it appears that she is flirting with the actor. Ari tells him he has to get his act together after Klein disrupts a lunch meeting between the agent and Schwimmer. Ari tells him he should consider his kids before he makes any decisions about his life. Klein ends up leaving his wife, but assures Ari his work won't suffer. It's nice to see that they are progressing Klein this season. At the same time, he's an ancillary character and to see him getting a lot of screen time at the expense of others is a bit of an odd choice. This is a minor complaint, because those running the show have clearly shown that they don't care about advancing any of the main characters to any substantiation. If they showed any sense of direction with the main characters, I would be more disappointed. At least they are doing something with a character and I do enjoy Gary Cole's performance on the show.

There were two things that happened in this episode that are extremely alarming. The first being that Vince's next movie has been delayed for about three months because director Frank Darabont had an accident that will not allow him to shoot the film. So, now Vince has even less time devoted to actual work which basically ensures that even less will happen with him. The second alarming development in this episode happened with E. We seem him at his office trying to get "work" done, but we come to find out that he has little work to do. By the end of the episode E shuts down his company, the Murphy Group. So, now E has even less time devoted to actual work which basically ensures that even less will happen with him. Sound familiar? Well, it's apparent that those in charge of the show don't really care if anything interesting happens with the main characters on their show. After clamoring for more time spent on the characters at work for three weeks to see two of the main characters have essentially nothing to do work wise is really frustrating. Worse yet, this episode felt excruciatingly long. As critical as I have been about this show in recent times, I still argued that it was entertaining and thus worth watching. But now we have hit the four episode mark (1/3 of the season) and three of the episodes have been sub-par and this one was not even remotely entertaining. The title of the episode was quite fitting..."Runnin' on E" Yes, it's quite obvious that the many things about this show are "runnin' on E."

Episode Grade: F