Did What I think Just Happen Happen?

Did Entourage just grow a pair after 5 years of sucking?  Sunday's season finale was somewhere between their usual happy ending and nuclear fallout.  But it could have been worse, Turtle could have been whacked and Vince could have pulled a Dirk Diggler and started performing sex acts for blow.  Sadly, I think it is too little too late; there's only one season and possibly a movie left (a movie about a movie star?).  We've had one season end in total failure before, the Medellin season, and granted the following season was all about rehabbing Vince's image.  Yeah it was far fetched that one movie would totally destroy a career and much more believable that getting arrested for fighting Kevin Love, Jordan Farmar, Eminem, and bodyguards, and drug possession is harder to come back from.  But guess what? Robert Downey Jr. did it.  I just have a feeling this is going to be like the post-Medellin plot where it seems like no one wants Vince anymore and then some big name director decides he does; the show loves easy fixes.

Yes, I am interested in the show I have been begrudgingly watching for a while now.  But trying to make Vince an interesting character is a tall task with Adrian Grenier's limited acting abilities.  The only reason I knew he was upset was because everyone kept saying he wasn't OK and then he was doing lines by himself with a bottle of whiskey like he was a member of an 80's metal band.

Turtle's plot this year: boring.  I could care less about a tequila company or the girl they were trying to pass off as hot.  Even with that it was one episode she hates Turtle the next they're dating (easy fix again).  She and Sasha Grey just annoyed me. 

But hey, at least Sasha made Grenier look like a decent actor with her flat, emotionless lines.  She couldn't even convince me she was mad at coked out Vince trying to tell her what to do.  The only good part about that relationship was the irony that Vince was the one who wanted a serious relationship while the love interest was having sex with a lot of people.

E's plot was completely stupid.  I don't want to watch him take over his boss's firm.  Ari did that last year.

I want to see more Johnny's Bananas.  Why was there not at least a scene from that?  And yes please for more of E's secretary.  Hot and British?  I'll take it.

This brings me to the Ari plot.  Did things need to go against him?  Unquestionably yes.  Did his life need to completely unravel?  Unquestionably no.  The one character that has made the last few seasons bearable is Ari Gold.  He was good for entertainment, good for depth of character, good for quality acting.  If this impending divorce, and loss of respect in the biz cuts Ari's balls off I will be very upset.  He may not be the nicest person, but he got the job done, he made lives better (look at Lloyd, the man is a damn good agent because even though Ari yelled at him a lot, he was able to distill the message).  If Ari can no longer be Ari, Entourage can no longer be Entourage.