Entourage Season 8 Ep 8 SERIES FINALE Review

| September 12, 2011 | TV | 4 Comments

The end is finally here.  How do you say goodbye to friends you’ve made and gotten to know over the last eight seasons?  Do you stretch it out over an hour long celebration?  Or do you stick to the script and not change a thing?  Entourage chose to go with option #2.  No drawn out finale, no special returning guest starts from through the series.  Just the typical 30 minute show.

Vince announces to the gang that he’s getting married!  That’s right, the woman he’s known less than a week has won his recovering addict heart and he wants to take everyone to Paris for the wedding. Everyone’s shocked by the news but not putting up much of a fight.  Afterall, why bring up new tension on a show’s last episode?  Throw caution to the wind and make everyone’s lives happy dammit!

We see that Ari and Eric have are just saying no to shaving.  This of course is to display how their personal lives are a living Hell.  Eric is going to quit his job and move to New York to be closer to Sloan.  Whether she wants him or not.  Drama and Turtle take it upon themselves to talk to Sloan and convince her to come to Vince’s wedding in Paris (as a sly ploy to get her and Eric in the same vicinity).  Sloan will go on one condition:  she makes Drama swear on his career whether or not Eric slept with her ex-stepmother Melinda. Drama hesitates for a split second, but still covers for Eric and says no.  Good thing he had his balls crossed or his career might be in jeopardy!  If nothing else these last few episodes have shown how the guys will do anything for one another. Long time friends like these will do those kinds of things for one another.

Since Vince has been feeling himself these last few episodes he pushes his luck and tries talking to Sloan’s father to put in a good word for Eric.  What Vince didn’t know is Sloan’s father had no idea that she was pregnant….oops.  At least Vince meant no harm, and Eric let him off the hook easy.  For a split second it looked like they were going to dig up some more “season finale drama” between the two but thankfully they decided not to.  Been there done that folks.  On more than one occasion.

We see Ari have a heart-to-heart talk with his daughter regarding how forgetful he is.  She reminds him that she left a CD on his desk for him to listen to.  It’s an opera group from her high school.  Of course Ari can’t remember her giving the CD to him months ago.  She understands that he’s extremely busy and let’s him off the hook.  This prompt’s Ari to tear his desk apart to find the CD, which we find out Lloyd has in his possession.  Ari gets Lloyd to play the CD over the intercom system at the office, and the music moves him to the point that he quits his job.  No more being the Super Agent for Ari Gold.  He’s a family man now!  He goes home and breaks this news to Mrs. Ari while the high school opera group performs live in the background.  He’s done working and they’re off to vacation at their dream destination.

We end the series where many season finales have taken place…an airport strip.  As the gang is about to board the plane, Vince surprises Eric with his own plane to take him wherever he wants, and Sloan is there to greet him.  Everything’s wrapped up in one nice tidy bow.  We even get bonus post-ending credits footage stolen straight from the movies.  Ari and Mrs. Ari are living it up on vacation when Sloan’s father calls to offer up his job.  Ari can be a Hollywood God over his own company.  He has a week to think about this new dream offer.  Which of course will be a setup for the eventual Entourage movie.

My thoughts on the series finale?  It was alright.  I enjoyed the Eric/Sloan conclusion for now.  There’s no way things were going to end with them still mad at each other.  I don’t buy Vince’s quick marriage to Sophia but whatever.  No series that’s been on TV longer than three seasons is going to end things on a sour note, so I get that.  The last thing I will take away from Entourage is that Turtle is a millionaire!

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  • Doug

    It wasn’t Sloan’s father (Terence) who called Ari.
    It was John Ellis. 

    • Really?  Which character was John Ellis again?

  • Doug

    in the beginning it was only E who has a mangina.  in the end, all the men except for drama traded in their balls.  by season 8, 90% of the show was about M/F relationship problems, and about 10% about the hollywood lifestyle.  i suspect this is because hollywood doesn’t want the final message to be that it’s okay to be rich and single and bang chicks all the time.  they do this because there’s more profit to be had when men and women are in conflict – not because it’s the correct lifestyle.  

    in the end, i would have liked to see both planes crashing into each on the runway so that all the characters would be burned alive.  

    • That’s a good point. The show really started focusing more on the love life of the crew. Instead of them running through random groupies/actresses/reality stars, they wanted the gang to settle down. Which brought the quality of the show down with it.

      And I guess you won’t be going to theaters to see the movie when it comes out lol.