My favorite part of the episode. Always have thought she's hot.

I can't believe how lazy the writers got. Ari tells Lloyd that he'll be a great agent and he got him his first client - the product placement opera kids.

Buuuuuuut.... isn't Lloyd already an agent with Drama and a few others under his belt?

I am guessing it wasn't a real ending because they want to make Big screen movies now.

Looked like CGI to me... but then, lots of things look like CGI to me these days.

One of the things that bothered me the most was how the women were treated.

The blonde reporter... who appeared to be intelligent and resisted Vince's charms goes on one date with him before deciding to marry him?! Seriously. Oh and the writers never bothered to show us that date because that would be quite a feat to write a convincing sequence where a smart woman falls in love with Vince in a matter of a couple hours. She doesn't even pop up in the episode until the very end, where she's a total 180 of her normal character.

Mrs. Ari... conveniently broke up with Flay because she still had feelings for Ari. Let the record show that in no other episode prior to this show they did ever show that she might have still had feelings towards him. From there it was easy, let Ari beg and produce tears and he'll get what he wants. Oh throw in some Opera singers for fun.

Sloane... this may be the most offensive. Drama and Turtle lie to her face. Lie to her face about whether or not E slept with Melinda. Then she finds out the truth from her dad of all places. She's pissed but not pissed enough. Because Vince visits her and all she can do is smile around him. Vince talks her into staying, glamours her, if you will, into getting back with E with dialogue that isn't particularly strong or original. Oh and this was all in a matter of hours.

This episode did accomplish something... the only episode where Scott Caan was the normal one and everyone else was a douchebag.

^ The only thing I would dispute with you there would be a little bit of the Mrs. Ari thing. I thought there was a couple of times when they did hint at her lingering feelings toward Ari. Flay even commented about how slow she was trying to take things and how uncomfortable she felt with him in the house with her. But Mrs. Ari's motivations and actions seemed completely inconsistent most of the season to me.

You forgot the awesome video they put together show EVERY chick Vince banged in 10 years saying how awesome he was. <sarcasm> I know how convincing that could be but it's a stretch to find them all bending over backwards to compliment him <sarcasm>... plus, I'm not sure my wife would want some testimony of what a great guy I was from all the chicks I've been inside.

If Entourage ended with the last episode of Season Five (the Great Gatsby) this might have been a near perfect series.

Yeah, I didn't understand that at all... Lloyd is the head of the entire TV department, but he hasn't had one client (besides Drama)? Yeah, that makes sense, lol

Also: Ari spent an entire episode a few years back trying to get Jonah into that private school (to the extent that he tries to bribe the director), and then just takes him out to go to Florence for a year as an afterthought to he and his wife's wishes?

I think the deleted scenes included in the DVDs of season 8 will include ones with Ari partaking in Vince's stash of drugs...

Finally watched this tonight. The post-credits scene was the best for me -- otherwise everything else was pretty underwhelming. I too am glad it's over.

Several seasons ago, I had always pictured the finale with the gang moving back to New York. Possibly due to Vince giving up acting, or even fading as a movie star. But once they established he was going to remain successful, I figured it might end with E and Sloan getting married, and they all go their separate ways.

I mean, of all the members, wouldn't E have been the logical choice to get married? But no, it's Vince, who they hammered home the point on a consistent basis about him barely ever having relationships. Outside of Mandy Moore and the drug-fueled relationship with Sasha Grey, he basically just banged a different chick every day. And now all of a sudden, he's ready to settle down and commit to 1 girl, after banging all of Hollywood?

Agreed. Scorsese calling him up was great and should have been the pinnacle of his career.

The complete 180 turn on the reporter, who they so well developed the character enough that I don't even recall her name. Sophia? Was possibly the worse thing about this finale. That creepy as fuck video got her to agree to a date and the one date got her to change completely and say yes to a proposal?

Then in the final episode we don't see her for any of it other than 2 seconds of getting on a plane but she after being so anti-Vince for the last few episodes her only line is "You're amazing Vincent Chase!" because he got Sloan to get back with E via a smile and a bold face lie about him sleeping with Melinda.

Fuuuuuck This Show.

I just watched all of this last season in a day. Nothing really happened ! way too much about Ari's marriage drama and Sloane and E

and no nudity or sex scenes !

The turtle and drama storylines were also flat

The vince stuff was unbelievable. A classy lady who doesn't fall for Vince's charms until his friends say a few nice words about him and she watches a dvd of Vince's conquests saying what a great guy he is. Yes seeing someone's sexual history in stunning technicolor is a real turn on. Then she sleeps with him on their first date and marries him a few days later

If they had had a whole season of Vince chasing after this lady, it could have been quite good.

I'm pretty sure that the no nudity in the last season was basically due to them not wanting to edit anything for when it goes to Spike.

I'm sure it had more to do with a woman head writer than worrying about Spike.

Saw this on AOTS, the "alternate" ending to the series.

Oops. I skimmed through the thread before posting this, but must have went through too fast.

I saw this already too.
Since it was already posted in this thread twice.

I still don't get how you take a male escapism show and give it to a female head writer. The memo of "this is sex in the city for men" was completely misinterpreted.

And even so, women could throw in some nudity to fill the background. Hell, back in the old days there was background sex going on while conversations were taking place.

Ugh. Just so annoyed at how this show tanked so badly.

I don't think the issue is a female writer, but maybe the fact that this writer just sucks in a variety of ways (doesn't understand her audience, how to pace a story, etc). Mad Men has a majority female writing staff and they do a great job with all the male characters.

Which is my argument to suggest that even female writers can write for males and include nudity or other sexual suggestive shit. It was in the show's MO to be all that and the only nudity we got in the final season was on some ipad touch.

fuuuuuuuuuuu

Wasn't the head writer of sex in the city a man?

A gay man.

So going by that, they should've hired a lesbian to write for Entourage.