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Entourage (6 seasons)

I was skeptical of Entourage when I was first introduced to it. It just seemed like a show about a bunch of douche bags prancing around Hollywood, engaging in some premium douche baggery and being too rich to have to deal with the consequences. My good buddy told me about Entourage, and he is a guy whose opinion I trust, so I was intrigued that he was telling me to power on through my initial beef with the show; to look beyond the blatant douche baggedness and see the good that exists. Like how Luke Skywalker didn’t give up on Darth Vader, you know? The characters in Entourage that first struck me as being complete cretins started to grow on me. Perhaps the shows creators put some special ingredient in the show that made me crave it, and perhaps this ingredient is called “good and entertaining writing and stories and such”. Whatever happened, I wound up hooked and sorely hurting when I had finished my Entourage binge, 6 seasons later. It has taught me a lot about dropping judgments against people and accepting them for the good that they possess. Now, some of the characters possess very little and are downright unlikeable as far as I can see, but by the end I had grown to love Ari Gold. I had not, however, lost my fears concerning anyone who might end up in Hollywood pursuing a career in show business and then falling victim to any of the millions of sex pests and rotters that are apparently everywhere out there, if Entourage is anything to go by. Please, if you do go to that part of the world, be very careful. I do so worry about you.

Curb Your Enthusiasm (7 seasons)

It is widely believed that, when faced with adverse circumstances, Larry David says what everyone else is thinking, and does what nobody else will do. Some of the time I find myself marveling at how a person could be so bothered by some of the things that cause Larry to act as ridiculously as he does; why doesn’t he just give it a rest? At other times I stand beside Larry and cheer him on. Not literally, of course. I don’t actually stand up in front of my television, cheering “let’s go, Larry, let’s go!” or anything quite so outlandish. I normally just laugh quite a lot, perhaps sighing that he is “so right” amid my chuckles and smiles. The calamity and awkwardness of your average Curb Your Enthusiasm episode will make even the most iron stomached viewer cringe, and it is sad to see the amount of losses Larry suffers as the episodes go by. My favourite episodes are the ones in which Larry wins. They don’t happen often, but sweet is the taste of victory when they do. The empathy I feel concerning Larry is actually quite strong, which I see as compelling evidence for there being a large Larry David section in my brain, somewhere over by the medulla oblongata perhaps?