Defamer
Today's LAT continues its ongoing mission of digging beneath the surface of HBO's popular, softcore Hollywood-lifestyle-porn series Entourage by posing the kinds of probing questions that expose the dramatic Truth obscured by its glitter-speckled veneer, asking, "Hey, for a show in which the main characters do little besides chase tail, why don't we see some fucking?"
It's a sex farce without the sex; you presume that the young movie star Vince (Adrian Grenier) has a stable of rotating women, but these conquests are like Vince's acting talent — implied, not shown, as if to see Vince actually engaged in the sex act would turn off viewers. [...]
"Sex and the City" in its unbidden depictions of sex and presentation of boy toys, earned the reputation of being written for women and gay men by women and gay men. The show was nowhere near as chaste or ashamed about the self-conscious, bad ballet of lovemaking as "Entourage" is. Apparently, it's actually straight males who find sex icky. The self-censorship is even more glaring given that "Entourage" otherwise revels in displaying the spoils of new Hollywood money (in the codified world of the show, you have to have the scene in which Vince buys three gleaming new sports cars on the spot).
While Entourage has on at least one occasion imported a stunt cock from another HBO series to demonstrate that there is, in fact, some fucking going on at the mansion, the show has been curiously shy about allowing its stars to lace up their square-toed, carnal slippers and perform the "bad ballet of lovemaking" before the greedy eyes of its libertine pay-cable audience. Perhaps its producers fear that if they depict the actual moment in which Turtle and his best friend cross swords during the act of their totally heterosexual servicing of a single female admirer, the mystery of whether or not the incident was truly a regrettable "occupational hazard" of their gangbang or something sinisterly orchestrated by bi-curious Viking Johnny Drama would be forever ruined.
- These boys have some hang-ups [LAT]
- Previously: Overthinking 'Entourage' [Defamer]
Comments
There's a word for HBO-style programs with female nudity and sex added: Showtime.
They showed Vince boning the yoga-and-wheatgrass chick that pissed Eric off by advising Vince on a script.
@TedSez: Don't forget the ubiquitous Skinemax. Why did they need to import a stunt cock? Do these buff actors have little willies?
Didn't the first two seasons have sex scenes? Though now that I think about it, they were never as graphic (i.e. good) as the ones in Sex and the City. Come on HBO! People in Rome do it, people in Dead Wood do it. Heck, even the Mormons in Big Love do it! Why get prudish with these kids? The gauntlet has been thrown down. I expect to see some hardcore fucking this season.
I have a totally gay man-crush on Domenick Lombardozzi, and I can tell you that I very much enjoyed that scene, as well as the following bare-assness. Apparently, only walk-ons get laid.
I recall Doug Ellin mentioning that on the first-season DVD (which incriminates me, of course). Something about his own inability to write a decent sex scene.
But c'mon: Surely Drama's calves were enough to satisfy any fetishist.
They have plenty of young actresses' tits on the show; this was another lame LA Times attempt to merge publicist-approved hype with a thoughtless thought-piece 'fresh angle'.
and to "Dragonwolf" ... please shut the f**k up. your lame commments are ubiquitous, r-tard.
lack of sex scenes is not the issue. The show was on track to finally outgrow it's in-joke wankiness and become a seriously good show after season two.
then came the trainwreck of season three. Drama punches out 9 people in vegas- next epsiode he's not in jail and it's all forgotten. Vince tells off the press and ruins his career? Everything's normal by next week. Maybe for season 4 consider having some sort of arc, or at least have the writers of the various eps talk to each other?
"Fucking-related questions" has to be my new favorite tag of all time.
@Porkypine420:
Oh, Kevin, we know your cock is really HUGE!
@Porkypine420: No. I don't think I will.
@Porkypine420:
I had something to contribute to this post (see: a comment), but this sudden full-blown case of stage fright keeps telling me: DON'T DO IT.
I don't remember a lot of sex in season one or two...but maybe I've just forgotten.
Anyone else notice that no one does drugs...which I think is kind of weird for a show about people working in the film industry.
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