Doug Ellin has heard you. Don’t think he hasn’t. The “Entourage” creator knows you critic-y critics out there are critiquing his show critically, and he has a message for all the haters: “Sorry for being awesome at everything.” From TV Guide:
“The critics, all of a sudden, seem to have turned on us and forgotten that we were actually critically acclaimed in the past,” series creator and executive producer Doug Ellin tells TVGuide.com of the criticism for last year’s dark story lines. “Last season, we had our highest ratings ever, so I kind of ignore the critics.”
“The critics’ reaction to the show doesn’t matter at all. Except for that time they said it was great, which was a very important thing that we should never forget.”
Ellin went on to hypothesize as to why the critics have turned on the show recently:
So why the suddenly cold reception from critics? Ellin says that the show’s transformation from a simple buddy comedy to a complicated tale that saw Vince begin using cocaine and landing in rehab, has thrown many for a loop. “Honestly, I’m very willing to be criticized. I love the show. I think it’s as good as it’s ever been,” Ellin says. “I don’t feel there’s been a lot of shows in the history of television that have mixed up tones as much as we have and I think that throws people. I think that shocks them.”
Excellent point. I mean, just think of all the tones they’ve mixed in: things looking bad but then everything working out in the end, things looking really bad but then everything working out in the end, things looking really really bad but then everything working out in the end, things looking really really really bad but then everything working out in the end, etc. The show is like some sort of Dickensian chameleon.
Look, I don’t have the vitriol for this show that many have. I watched it for a couple seasons before throwing in the towel a few years ago. But let’s not pretend it suddenly became a shocking, riveting drama, okay Doug Ellin? You make a very successful show about bros doing shots on private planes with supermodels. More power to you. But don’t try to tell me it’s a good show because lots of people watch it, and don’t try to convince me it’s “The Wire” because one guy did cocaine for a month.
Bro.
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The guy claimed his show has evolved a bit, not that it was a riveting drama or on par with The Wire.
This post was nothing but NERD-RAGE and strawmen.
All aboard the USS BUTTHURT!
@RomanCandle – I’d take the time to disagree with you, but now I’m too busy trying to put together a chillwave band called Nerd-rage and Strawmen.
You win this round.
“So why the suddenly cold reception from critics?”
Because it sucks?
I love it when people act like popularity is an indicator of quality. Nooooot so much.
@Danger
Funny joke (no, really). But I will note that, like most hipster/internet pop-culture types, you choose to make a snarky remark rather than actually addressing my argument.
This isn’t exactly the debt ceiling debate, obviously, but still.
Bro, y you dissin dis dope azz show? lol DG suckz!
Didn’t Eric just say to Vince’s fake cock last week “Things ALWAYS work out for us Vince(‘s fake cock)”?
Bro.
Things do work out in the end for some people, they deserve a show too.
Since this is ending I can finally count myself among them.
Yo, RomanCandle. Budd-ayyyyyyyyyy. Thanks for supportin’ the show.
Wow, the first post was a Entourage defender. Usually it takes a few days for them to catch on that the show is being made fun of.
@RomanCandle – I chose to make a joke and not address your argument because I said everything I wanted to about the story in the post and didn’t really feel the need to defend it any further.
You’re entitled to your opinion, I’m entitled to mine. But I would recommend you reread the parts of the blockquotes that include the words “complicated tale” and “I don’t feel there’s been a lot of shows in the history of television that have mixed up tones as much as we have…”
@DangerGuerrero: This is where Matt would just tell them to fuck off.
“But don’t try to tell me it’s a good show because lots of people watch it”
CBS stood up to argue against this point, but fell down and broke it’s hip before it had the chance.
“The guy claimed his show has evolved a bit, not that it was a riveting drama or on par with The Wire.”
Wicked straw man argument, broseph.
Bro.
This show is better than the Wire. It has naked chicks and nice cars and backwards hats.
The Wire is weak sheeeeeit. Bro.
Entourage is the ugly girl in the group that makes Game of Thrones and Boardwalk Empire so much more attractive.
Wow, that was a wicked slap fight, you guys.
Mix up ya tones, Bro! Mix up ya tones!
Game of thrones? Game of thrones?
No, Entourage, Brooooooooo…
History in the making, all these tones changin’
Doug Ellin fans a’ raging! Wait, what were they saying?
“Oh yeah, the critics, they was up on my shit, but they forgot what they wrote and now they havin’ a fit.”
Vince & DOUG:
I’m havin’ a bad day. SHOCK EM!
I’m havin’ a worse day. SHOCK EM!
I’m havin’ a good day. THROW EM!
I’m havin’ the greatest day. THROW EM!
Mix up ya tones, Bro! Mix up ya tones!
Game of thrones? Game of thrones?
No, Entourage, Brooooooooo..
GODAMNIT! Well, “NERD-RAGE and strawmen” USED to be the name of my twig ‘n berries, guess that’s out the window now too.
@RomanCandle; you should take your talents to the TMZ comment section; they’d really “get you” there.
Entourage is Sex and the City for viewers with wish-fulfillment issues and low expectations, except instead of vaginii, they (allegedly) have dicks. That’s why critics hate it. There, that wasn’t hard.