HBO Sunday Night - 8/1/10

Entourage: Bottoms Up
Season 7, Episode 5

Vince starts seeing Sasha Grey, Turtle tries to get Vince to shill some cheap Tequila, Drama loses his TV role to Bob Saget, and Eric and Sloan try anal sex. You can be forgiven for quitting the series altogether after (during?) this episode. While the porn star part was handled as well as possible and Drama was pathetically humorous, Eric and Sloan went from super boring to super disgusting. Thankfully, as Ari said to Lloyd as they were approaching Jessica Simpson's front door, it was "just like old times" for Ari this episode as he tried to hold onto clients, also including Mike Tyson and Aaron Sorkin. Sorkin seemed to have inspired the writers to try harder during his great scene, but Tyson's reaction after Ari talks about Tyson biting an ear off was the best moment of the night. B

Hung: A Man, a Plan
Season 2, Episode 5

Damon embarrasses his sister with a personal poem, Jessica and Ronnie fight during sex, and Damon unknowingly eats too many pot scones, which causes him to hallucinate. After logically tracing the steps where a divorced gym teacher with twin teenagers becomes a successful gigolo (with a heart of gold), the series took its first unbelievable turn when Ray tries to get Mike to sub for him at a dinner date, thereby potentially exposing his extracurricular adventures to his co-workers and ruining his reputation, career, relationship with his kids, and future plans with his ex-wife. Though you couldn't tell it from the marketing and advertising, the show has never "really" been about male prostitution. It's more about family and interpersonal connections. Even though Ray chose his son over his date, he put everything in jeopardy and there were plenty of other options - like telling the truth for starters. Ray's never had a problem with that before. B-