I think it’s fair to say that Entourage is the best TV show I have seen my whole life.

For those of you who don’t know what Entourage is about, let me give you a brief summary. Entourage is a story about the life of a rising movie star Vincent Chase, his brother Johnny Chase, his best friend and manager of his career Eric Murphy and his good friend and driver Turtle.

These 4 guys grew up together back in Queens, New York and are best friends. Vince went from being a nobody to celebrity movie star by acting as the hero and lead role in the movie Aquaman. E (Eric Murphy) is Vince’s best friend since they were 6 years old and he is also the manager of Vince’s career. In other words, E does all the organising and gets Vince great roles in movies. Of course, Vince also has an agent, Ari Gold, who’s job it is to get Vince good roles in movies. Ari is quite a character and although he can be quite an asshole, he has some very respectable moral strength and good boundaries.

What makes Entourage so appealing is that it follows the life of a movie star in Beverly Hills. You get to see all the mansions, flashy cars, private jets, trips across the world, crazy parties, models, beautiful actresses. There are even many appearances of real-life celebrities like Kanye, TI, Mary J Blige, Matt Damon, David Schwimmer and more. But besides all that, you get to feel like you are living that life. The 4 guys are all so close and good friends that it feels like you are right there as part of their group when you are watching the show.

What I really loved about Entourage is how it shows that even someone like Vincent Chase, who goes from a nobody to instant world-wide celebrity after starring in the movie Aquaman, gets a series of bad luck and setbacks that almost bring him to the edge of breaking-down. That is something that I can really relate to because I have gone through a series of setbacks and bad luck for a good 3 years in a row and I thought it just happened to me. The lesson is that even though things get difficult, just keep your dukes up and stay in the ring. Never give up.

NOTE: If you have not seen entourage yet and you do not want me to ruin the show for you then you should not read the rest of this post because I am about to reveal some of the big plots and events that happen in the show.

After Vince has his initial success with acting in Aquaman and makes a few million dollars, he gets dozens of offers for roles in other movies. These offers were each worth millions of dollars, but because Vince was looking for something special, he turned all these offers down. He was not in a rush and wasn’t in it for the money, he wanted to act in a movie that he was passionate about and that would show the world that he is a real actor. Time went by, the guys enjoyed life, partied it up, more offers were turned down and still nobody was worried in the slightest because they were all confident that Vince would get another fantastic role in a fabulous movie.

Eventually Vince was able to get his hands on a project he had been wanting to do for two years. He had the chance to buy the script of the movie and create the movie himself. Vince and E decided that they both really wanted to do this, so Vince sold his house and used everything he owned to buy the script, and E put the majority of his own money into this project too. They found an investor who put up $30 million and they found a brilliant (but rather eccentric) director willing to do the movie with them.

Vince, E and the rest of the crew spent months filming the movie in Columbia, and after all that hard work and effort were finally rewarded with a film they thought was absolutely brilliant and would win Oscars. Their movie would first be unveiled to the public at the Cannes film festival. Due to all the hype and excitement around the movie Vince and the crew got an offer of $75 million dollars before the buyer had even seen the movie. It seemed like life could not get any better.

Then…life took a turn down a bad road. Their film was a total disaster at Cannes. People hated it. The buyer who had offered $75 million for the film before withdrew his offer and said that he hadn’t signed anything so they could sue him if they wanted. Good luck…his company was based in Dubai.

The failure of Vince’s own movie had drastic influence on his public image, and all of a sudden there were no more offers for millions of dollars. Vince was very low on cash (close to broke) since he had put all his own money into this movie. However, he was still not worried and convinced things would work out as they always do.

More time passed, more fun was had, more parties were thrown and still no job offers…

Vince finally got a break when E found some writers with a great script. E managed to get the script to Edward Norton who wanted to make the movie, and with some changes in management of a movie studio, Vince was able to get a role in this movie. Everything looked great again until…

Vince was on set, the scenes were being shot, it all looked perfect. But the lead actor kept stealing Vince’s lines…and the director was okay with it. In fact, Vince discovered that the director hated him and didn’t want him on the movie at all. Shortly thereafter, Vince gets fired off the movie and the movie gets shut down due to it being over-budget. Vince and the guys’ world comes crashing down. At this point Vince has really lost hope and begins to feel like he will never get a good role in a movie again.

E tries his best to get Vince a role and as a last resort uses the footage from Vince’s recent movie that was never made (and that Vince got fired from). E’s efforts don’t seem to make any progress and when Vince hears about it he gets into an argument with E. Vince blames E for all the lack of success in the last months and actually fires him. Vince fires his best friend and manager who he has known since he was 6 years old. This is how far the setbacks have driven Vince into a corner. All the time up to this point, Vince has pretty much shrugged his shoulders and maintained the conviction that everything would work out as it always has. Not anymore…the setbacks have finally gotten to him and as a result he took it out on his best friends.

Fortunately, E’s efforts of sending the footage of the unfinished film resulted in some powerful eyeballs viewing that footage, and got Vince requested for the lead role in a MAJOR movie. This was Vince’s comeback, and when Vince realised that he got the part because of E’s efforts, he immediately flew over to see him, apologized and got him back as his friend and manager.

Parting Words

This was a very brief summary of the entire six seasons of the show ‘Entourage’ and doesn’t come close to conveying its awesomeness. I really, really love that show!

The lessons that stood out from Entourage for me were:

• Even if success and money get handed to you on a silver platter, don’t take it for granted.




• Just because you have success or money or friends right now, does not mean that you will always have it.




• In life there will be days, weeks, months or years where you get setbacks or experience failures. You will make wrong decisions. Sometimes these setbacks keep coming, and they keep coming for periods of time that are longer than you expect them to last. Sometimes these setbacks will drive you to the point where you get really desperate, fearful or where you completely lose faith. The only thing you can do is trust and believe in yourself and keep trying the best you can, things will get better.

Where To Watch Entourage

If you haven’t watched Entourage yet and you’d like to start (which I absolutely recommend) then you have two options.

http://www.tvshow7.com/watch-entourage-online