Entourage
2004 · 8 Seasons · HBO · Comedy / Drama
Entourage is a Hollywood fantasy machine powered by wish fulfillment, celebrity cameos, and Jeremy Piven's volcanic performance as super-agent Ari Gold. The first four seasons deliver a breezy, entertaining ride through a version of Los Angeles where everything works out for the main characters, and the fun is infectious when you stop resisting it. Later seasons run out of creative energy, and the show's treatment of women, always a weak point, hasn't aged well at all. It's a time capsule of mid-2000s bro culture that's simultaneously easy to binge and difficult to defend. If you can enjoy it for what it is without expecting it to be more, there's genuine entertainment here.