Entourage why last season

The actor, who had spent most of the final season trying to stay clean and reboot his career after a stint in rehab, found love in the last episode. After spending 24 hours with Vanity Fair reporter Sophia Alice Eve , he got engaged and planned a very impromptu wedding in Paris. However, before jetting off to live happily ever after, the movie star helped give his friends happy endings as well.

The driver was now a millionaire! The loyal brother was on hand at the end of the episode to accompany Vince to Paris for his wedding, eager to find a French fling while in town. Early on in its life, Entourage did a pretty good job of making you care whether Vince could retain his sense of integrity while being the star of an Aquaman hit and the auteur of the flop Medellin.

After a while, however, we came to realize that Vince had slowly, steadily lost any sense of the division between idealism and success. In this, the series mirrored what was going on in the pop culture, the politics, and the economy of America over the years in which Entourage existed. It was like Scarface , without the chainsaw and blood: Every week, we said hello to these leetle friends.

If fans identified with and fantasized through Vince and his pals, they vented vicariously through Ari, the venal, foul-mouthed agent who made millions for himself and others, and almost never let an enemy slip away without the mortal wounds of profane insults. The other actors had to remain likable; Jeremy Piven had the toughest job: He had to render Ari over-the-top cruel, realistically cynical, and likable.

You just knew these guys were going to remain loyal bros to the very end. You just knew E was going to win over Sloan. The first season of Entourage was, if not a critical darling, at least reasonably respected. Sure, Entourage lost fans over the course of its eight seasons. So, in the space between the season finale and the announcement of the Entourage movie, what changed? The easiest but also most boring answer is that nothing did—the first couple of seasons are generally entertaining, but as the show continued to hit the same beats over and over again, it became difficult to take anything that happened even remotely seriously.

Needless to say, pop-culture criticism as a whole now pays far more aggressive, fine-grained attention to the political implications of art within the context of criticism. We increasingly consider aesthetic judgments to at least overlap with ethical ones, in part if not entirely.

This change has allowed for some of the best TV criticism of the past few years, coming from some of the best critics. OK, Chandler is the worst. Yes, it has also produced plenty of ham-fisted and wrongheaded analysis—but, no matter your opinion on it, this analytical mode is now built into the way we talk about culture.

The reason Entourage fell out of favor? Its highly objectionable ethic of bro-ness. On Entourage, if you stick by your bros, nothing you do is truly bad. No one else is entitled to be treated as a real person. And as much as the bros squabble, like any good TV cast, they cling together in a bubble of co-dependency—so they get what they want, almost unfailingly.