College is great for discovering television. Just this semester I have discovered and rediscovered Gilmore Girls, The Return of Jezebel James, Planet Earth, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Tudors, Saturday Night Live, The United States of Tara and Arrested Development. What this does for my academic career I cannot be sure. I know that it makes the culture whore in me very happy. The most recent of these is Entourage, an HBO series based in Los Angeles about four friends and the high powered Hollywood agent who makes them rich. The agent Ari Gold, played by Jeremy Piven, is misogynistic racist and homophobic. Yet his wife in the one with any real power within the family. She is the only one who can manage to put him in his place. Asking any agent to go without their phone is like asking a fish to survive without water, yet she demands his phone from him on Yom Kippur and forbids him from doing business, making him appear to be useless and behaves like a lost little boy at the end of this scene, at a complete loss for how to function.
Though he fibs to his daughter, she asserts her power, showing her exasperation with her father, knowing that his atonement is most likely unacceptable.
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