Johnny Drama...Hero
Happy Easter everyone! Le Monde has described Pope Benedict XVI as a reactionary. My thoughts on this will be saved for later in this week. Instead, I would like to take a moment and welcome Johnny Drama back into our lives. For an overview of Johnny Drama's significance, read this profile of him, in the New York Observer. Welcome home Drama. You're just in time.
The obvious question that hangs over this season of Entourage: How will the writer's convincingly reconcile Vince with the second best character on the show, Ari Gold? Unfortunately, I will be on the road during tonight's episode - making my way back from my beloved hometown to D.C.
For those of you who wonder: what exactly does Dougherty (and Larison) or anyone see in this show? I can't explain it. You can say what you like: It's not family fare. It's obviously the product of an off-the-rack culture. It's shallow. And I can give you the usual justifications, saying: deep down it's about friendship, it's also a bit of a goof on Hollywood culture - etc. But all I can do is laugh and point at Johnny Drama and say. "C'mon, Bro."
I know I have a very diverse audience for this blog. Disaffected conservatives, the fashion-conscious, culture-warriors and Entourage fans, Catholics and hedonists. I will try to keep everyone happy as it ramps up again.
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Vince is utterly vapid, shallow, contrite, and typical, (and I love how Adrien Grenier hams this up,) and yet rolled into all of this is someone who has friend like E, who has read Edith Wharton and knows that a Whartonian-based screenplay will probably make a career. Then there's the bone-headed Drama with the street-smart Turtle, and then the mashugana on viagra, Ari, thrown in for a little extra entertaining exasperation. They all turn me on in a very odd way, and yet most of the time I really just want to slap them.
Why so hypnotic? The show is a study in contrasts: silly with savvy, freakish with finesse... very California indeed. Who could possibly look away?
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