So I finally decided to check out what the fuss is about Entourage. I'm starting with season 1. I can see why guys like this---they want to be those boys. Boys who came from Queens who are living it up in LalaLand--going to parties, having sex with beautiful women,living in a big house, acting like 12 year olds whose parents left them home alone for the weekend. If our boy's minds weren't already warped by video games and tv and porn, this wouldn't be so bad. Except they now all believe they can be like the guys from Entourage and learn that it's OK to act like douche bags as long as you have your best buddies there to support you along the way.
It does for males what Sex And The City does for females. Except, those girls weren't screwing men over, they were getting screwed by them. SATC made girls want to dress like Carrie and live a fairytale life on Park Avenue like Charlotte and be as scandalous as Samantha. I think the two shows should have merged and had a special. Carrie could've dated Vince, Samantha could've had sex with Turtle and it would all be more realistic than those shows are on their own. Human beings are dramatic. Life is dramatic. And it's ironic that to escape our own dramatic lives we choose to watch others live their outrageous lives in order to make us feel better about our own situation. But in the process of merely being a spectator, we learn about situations and events and actions that probably should not take place in the real world and inadvertently partake in them in our own lives.
Are we born drawn to the dramatic or do we learn it from observing others throughout our lives? That's like a 'what came first' kind of question. I don't know the answer. But I do know that we complain about how much we hate the 'drama' and yet put ourselves in these dramatic situations anyway. I guess we have to take it for what it is and accept that we cannot outrun it but we can TRY to refrain from making events in our lives soap opera-esque. Easier said than done.
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