Hugging it Out: "Dominated"

(SPOILER SPACE: If you do not want any of last night's episode of 'Entourage' spoiled for you, do not scroll past the picture of 'Drama', 'Turtle', and 'Dom')


My apologies for no HIO last week. My thoughts in a nutshell. Rolling blackouts and lame high school parties aren't good television.

This week Entourage introduced a fifth friend "Dom" played by Domenick Lombardozzi. This is great news because it allows me to schill for Lombardozzi's other show on HBO "The Wire" which is the best show on HBO, that none of you watch that will start its fourth season this fall. On that show Lombardozzi plays a cop so of course on Entourage he plays a crook. Specifically, he just finished serving five years for punching a cop after being busted with Vince's weed.

You don't need great foresight to see that Dom will bring nothing but problems to the current "Entourage" and the writers went to the David Chase school of symbolic metaphors by having Vince mention he landed him a personal job as head of security just as the roller coaster ride they were on ("Aquaman" the Ride) began its descent. While I don't expect Dom to be a permanent addition, he is at least A PLOTLINE, that this show lacked up until this point.

Hopefully the child-star punk is not a permanent storyline in the show. I was disappointed with the quips the writers gave Ari during that storyline as we all know what happens to child actors when they grow up.

Next Week: Dom is accused of robbery and causes more angst amongst the crew.