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| | guests = * ] as Himself (special guest star) | |||
| * ] as Harvey Weingard (special guest star) | |||
| ⚫ | * ] as Nel Lourie | ||
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| * Heidi Marnhout as Joyce | |||
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| '''"Sorry, Harvey"''' is the 4th episode from Season 4 of the dramedy television series '']''. | |||
| "'''Sorry, Harvey'''" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the American ] television series '']''. It is the 46th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator ], and directed by ]. It originally aired on ] on July 8, 2007. | |||
| The series chronicles the acting career of ], a young ] ], and his childhood friends from ], ], as they attempt to further their nascent careers in ]. In the episode, Eric tries to inform Harvey about their decision to keep ''Medellín'', while Vince has a night out with the Mayor of Beverly Hills. Ari loses a script from ], and must retrieve it for the following day. | |||
| According to ], the episode was seen by an estimated 2.21 million household viewers and gained a 1.3/4 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. The episode received mixed reviews from critics, who criticized the disjointed storylines. | |||
| ==Plot== | ==Plot== | ||
| ] (]) must meet with Harvey (]) to inform him of their decision to hold back on acquiring ''Medellín''. ] (]) asks ] (]) to use his star power to influence Nel Lourie (]), the ], to annex his apartment into Beverly Hills. Lourie is delighted to spend the day with Vince and his friends. | |||
| With Medellin now scheduled to appear at ], E must tell Harvey Weingard he won’t sell him the film as previously promised, and plans to do it face-to-face over dinner. Ari warns against it, citing Harvey’s hot temper when double-crossed. This will be the ''second'' time E and company have killed a deal with Harvey, having previously screwed him over in a Sundance package involving ''Aquaman''. But E denies any fear of Harvey and sticks to the plan. Meanwhile, Ari meets up with ] in a graveyard where the thriller director is filming an ] commercial. Night gives Ari a new script and asks him to read it by the next morning, but a preplanned dinner party threatens to sideline the assignment. | |||
| ] (]) receives a script by ], promising to read the 200-page script for the following day. This conflicts with a dinner with Melissa (]) and her friend, so Ari rushes the dinner to get back home earlier to start reading the script. However, Ari realizes that his car was mistaken for another; the left the script in the other car, and the new car includes sex toys. Using GPS, he returns to the owner's house in ]. The owner's wife was unaware of his visit to the restaurant, but Ari leaves in his car after finding the script intact. On his way back, he is stopped by a police cruiser for a speeding ticket and spends the night in jail, where he starts reading the script. However, Shyamalan says he disliked the ending and makes him read a new ending he wrote. | |||
| Eric meets with Harvey at a restaurant, and while Harvey says he wants to slow down his stress, he warns that he doesn't like people who break his trust. Seeing that Vince is at a club, Harvey forces Eric to accompany him there. Lourie bonds with a person at the party, although the boys discover the person to be a transvestite. While surprised, Lourie does not care, confident that they shared a great evening. Harvey gets into a heated argument with a waiter, and he is taken out by security guards. Drama seizes the opportunity to say they won't sell the film to him, causing Vince to state that he will make sure to destroy his career, unclear if it refers to Eric or Drama. The following day, the boys find that ] has leaked a video of Lourie's encounter outside the club. | |||
| ⚫ | ==Production== | ||
| ===Development=== | |||
| The episode was written by series creator ], and directed by ]. This was Ellin's 30th writing credit, and Whittingham's fourth directing credit.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://directories.wga.org/project/859134/entourage/|title=''Entourage'' – WGA Directory|website=]|access-date=February 11, 2024}}</ref> | |||
| ==Reception== | |||
| Drama outlines his plan to bring ] Mayor Nell Laurie along to Winston's, a (ficticious) club frequented by Hollywood heavyweights. He hopes to have his condo’s property line annexed into the city of Beverly Hills so he can receive its fire/rescue services located just a few hundred yards away, and more importantly get the coveted "90210" zip code, and thinks schmoozing the Mayor will seal the deal. The boys arrive at Nell’s mansion only to find him dressed down and interested in having Vince provide him with free female companionship for the night. Hoping to score at the club, Nell drives his own car. | |||
| ===Viewers=== | |||
| In its original American broadcast, "Sorry, Harvey" was seen by an estimated 2.21 million household viewers with a 1.3/4 in the 18–49 demographics. This means that 1.3 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 4 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast watched it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ratingsryan.com/2020/12/broadcast-cable-nielsens-20070708.html|title=Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending July 8, 2007|work=Ratings Ryan|date=December 24, 2020|access-date=February 11, 2024}}</ref> This was a 14% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by an estimated 2.55 million household viewers with a 1.6/5 in the 18–49 demographics.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ratingsryan.com/2020/12/broadcast-cable-nielsens-20070701.html|title=Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending July 1, 2007|work=Ratings Ryan|date=December 23, 2020|access-date=February 11, 2024}}</ref> | |||
| E meets Harvey for dinner, and despite seeing Harvey’s enthusiasm for the supposed acquisition, begins to tell Harvey the bad news. But he stops short when Harvey points out an industry player sitting nearby who once stole his VP of Production and considers cracking a bottle of wine "over the cunt’s head." | |||
| ===Critical reviews=== | |||
| After dinner, Ari’s wife berates him for rushing the event, especially his decision to have the check come before the entrée. In an effort to multitask, he asks her to pull the screenplay from his briefcase and read it to him while he drives, a suggestion she resists until he promises to buy her diamonds if the resulting movie is a hit. But the briefcase is not in the car. Confirmed by the presence of an African-American dildo in the trunk, they realize that the restaurant’s valet crew gave them the wrong black ], and that Night’s top-secret screenplay is now in the open. | |||
| "Sorry, Harvey" received mixed reviews from critics. Ahsan Haque of '']'' gave the episode an "okay" 6.9 out of 10 and wrote, "The entire episode felt a little disjointed and quickly put-together. While it's certainly watchable, "Sorry, Harvey" just doesn't have enough going for it to rank highly against the vast majority of ''Entourage'' episodes."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2007/07/09/entourage-sorry-harvey-review|title=Entourage: "Sorry, Harvey" Review|last=Haque|first=Ahsan|date=July 9, 2007|access-date=February 11, 2024|work=]}}</ref> | |||
| ] wrote, "Last night's episode wasn't as excruciating as the Lisa Rinna horror show from a week ago, in that it had some (minimal) Ari/Lloyd interaction, M. Night Shyamalan doing one of the better self-parodying cameos and Maury Chaykin taking his scenery-chewing Harvey Weinstein tribute to the next level. But the stories involving the four main characters are now so toothless and predictable that I don't care about anything that happens to them."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2007/07/coco-beware.html|title=Coco, beware|date=July 9, 2007|access-date=February 11, 2024|last=Sepinwall|first=Alan|work=What's Alan Watching?}}</ref> | |||
| After Drama, Turtle, and Vince meet up with Nell at Winston’s, E calls Vincent from the restaurant to say that he’s hesitant to tell Harvey, but still not afraid of him. Harvey grabs the phone from E and talks to Vince, who drops no hint of the imminent screw over but somehow motivates E and Harvey to show up at the club to celebrate with Vince in person. Meanwhile, thanks to some matchmaking by Drama, Nell lands a bombshell from ] named Annika. | |||
| Adam Sternbergh of '']'' wrote, "Otherwise, the episode was refreshingly on point. The show's co-creator, Doug Ellin, took the writing credit on the episode, and we hope he'll take a firm hand on the rest of the season, given how much better this week was than the last few painful outings."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vulture.com/2007/07/entourage_all_this_and_a_bag_o.html|title=The ‘Entourage’ Guilt/Pleasure Index: All That and a Bag of Dildos|date=July 9, 2007|access-date=February 11, 2024|last=Sternbergh|first=Adam|work=]}}</ref> Trish Wethman of '']'' wrote, "Tonight's episode definitely helped to renew my faith a little. I've said before that I feel like the wheels have come off the cart with these recent episodes, but tonight was definitely a step in the right direction. Actually, two of my requests from last week were addressed — less Billy Walsh and more Ari — so I can't complain too much."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV-Show-Blog/Entourage/July-8-2007/800018219|title=Entourage: The Right Moment|date=July 8, 2007|access-date=February 11, 2024|last=Wethman|first=Trish|work=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071218143843/http://community.tvguide.com/blog-entry/TV-Show-Blog/Entourage/July-8-2007/800018219|archive-date=December 18, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
| Back at the restaurant, Ari has a colored conversation with the valet manager about methods for recovering swapped cars. He ultimately suggests that Ari use the wrong Lexus’ navigation system to find its owner’s house, thus his own car. Ari finds the house and innocently informs the woman of the house that there was a mix up at Morton’s and her husband is in the process of driving home the wrong Lexus. Confused as to why her husband was at the restaurant in the first place, she erupts with jealous rage as he pulls into the driveway. Ari leaves with his Lexus—and the screenplay—before things get ugly. | |||
| Dawnie Walton of '']'' wrote, "Still, you have to appreciate a story line that ends with full frontal of a tranny and brings all the boys together for the finale. The more the gang is together, the stronger the show gets."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/allabout/episodes/0%2C%2C20000321_20044958%2C00.html|title=Sorry, Harvey|last=Katz|first=Paul|date=July 8, 2007|access-date=February 11, 2024|work=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080130184458/http://www.ew.com/ew/allabout/episodes/0,,20000321_20044958,00.html|archive-date=January 30, 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jonathan Toomey of '']'' wrote, "I think the thing I loved about this episode is the way it mirrored ''Entourage'' installments of old as all the stories seemed to flow together. Save for Ari's little diversion with M. Night Shyamalan, this half-hour was wrapped up pretty tightly with plenty of laughs."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/09/entourage-sorry-harvey|title=Entourage: Sorry, Harvey|last=Toomey|first=Jonathan|date=July 9, 2007|access-date=February 11, 2024|work=]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712205830/http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/07/09/entourage-sorry-harvey|archive-date=July 12, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> | |||
| At Winston’s, the club bouncer announces that Annika is actually a pre-op transsexual who is let into the club only because she/he is a frequent guest on the ] and would bad-mouth the club if they banned her. Drama is convinced to tell Nell about Annika before he finds out for himself, but Nell doesn’t seem to mind the news, claiming his connection to Annika trumps her status as a biological male. He even plans to hold up his end of the annexation deal. E finally admits that he is scared of Harvey, so Vince agrees to help him, but backs out—just as E had—when Harvey again vents of his rage, this time at a waiter who supposedly screws up a drink order. In a moment of spontaneity, Drama tells Harvey—as he is being bounced in mid rant—that they will not sell him Medellin. “We're not sellin' you the movie, Sorry bro.” Harvey instantly redirects his rage, spewing "you'll never work again!" as he's hustled out the door. Drama hopes Harvey meant E, not himself. | |||
| ] submitted this episode for consideration for ] at the ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Official 2008 EMMYS Episode Submissions|url=http://goldderbyforums.latimes.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1106078764/m/340102161|publisher=The Envelope Forum, ]|accessdate=February 11, 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008112622/http://goldderbyforums.latimes.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1106078764/m/340102161|archive-date=October 8, 2008}}</ref> | |||
| With screenplay in hand, Ari speeds home to read it, but, as if Ari’s night wasn’t stressful enough, he gets pulled over for going 140 mph and spends the night in jail. Ari finishes the screenplay just as he walks into his office the next morning, where Night is waiting—only to discover that Night had a revelation and changed the entire third act, thus making Ari’s night of jumping through hoops worthless. | |||
| == References == | |||
| Breakfast at Drama’s condo ends with a surprise. While surfing online, Turtle learns that the online celebrity gossip site ] captured video of Mayor Laurie leaving the club via the back alley with Annika. On camera, he calmly denies hiding anything, but when Annika steps into his car, her panty-less condition combines with her miniskirt to expose her "something extra" to the camera—likely sending the Mayor’s career, and Drama’s annexation, into oblivion. | |||
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| * ] as himself | |||
| * {{IMDb episode|1048484|Sorry, Harvey}} | |||
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| == Trivia == | |||
| *Joyce, Mrs. Ari's best friend, makes another appearance on the show. She previously appeared in ] | |||
| *The part of Anika, shown in the episode to be a pre-op male-to-female transsexual, is played by model and actress Natasha Alam, a non-transsexual woman who was at one time married to the Shah of Iran's grandson Amir Ebrahim Pahlavi Alam. | |||
| *Harvey Weingard is based on real-life EX-] Chairman ]. | |||
| *Mayor Nell Laurie wears a t-shirt displaying the name and artwork of ], a famous tattoo and graphic artist based in California. | |||
| *Nell calls Drama the rarely heard "John Chase." | |||
| *The episode's title is a callback to the season 3A finale, ]. | |||
| *The amount of shaving cream on E's face fluctuates throughout his entire phone conversation with Ari at The Shave. | |||
| *Except for the nature of the equipment revealed, the "flash" shot of Annika is a nod to the rash of starlets (including Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and Lindsey Lohan) "accidentally" exposing themselves throughout 2007 to a paparazzi cameras as they emerged panty-less from various limos. | |||
| * In the episode, the John "Drama" Chase character intimates that the building which houses his condominium is located in unincorporated Los Angeles County, and that the city limits of the City of Beverly Hills begins an extremely short distance away, perhaps just on the other side of the street. In reality, however, the City of Beverly Hills does not abut any unincorporated Los Angeles County territory; Beverly Hills neighbors the incorporated cities of West Hollywood and Los Angeles only. It may be that when Drama alludes to local emergency services for his area coming from "County" he is referring to his building being located in the City of West Hollywood, which contracts with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to provide police protection, which could be geographically possible. But either way, annexation of territory by one incorporated city of either unincorporated LA County territory or another city, as Drama would like done and which seems within the realm of possibility as described in the show, is an incredibly difficult and time-consuming procedure, involving action by the state and a vote of the residents of both affected communities, and certainly could not be a unilateral action on the part of the mayor of the annexing city, as portrayed in the episode. | |||
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4th episode of the 4th season of Entourage
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 4 | ||
| Directed by | Ken Whittingham | ||
| Written by | Doug Ellin | ||
| Cinematography by | Anthony Hardwick | ||
| Editing by | John Murray | ||
| Original release date | July 8, 2007 (2007-07-08) | ||
| Running time | 26 minutes | ||
| Guest appearances | |||
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| Episode chronology | |||
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| List of episodes | |||
"Sorry, Harvey" is the fourth episode of the fourth season of the American comedy-drama television series Entourage. It is the 46th overall episode of the series and was written by series creator Doug Ellin, and directed by Ken Whittingham. It originally aired on HBO on July 8, 2007.
The series chronicles the acting career of Vincent Chase, a young A-list movie star, and his childhood friends from Queens, New York City, as they attempt to further their nascent careers in Los Angeles. In the episode, Eric tries to inform Harvey about their decision to keep Medellín, while Vince has a night out with the Mayor of Beverly Hills. Ari loses a script from M. Night Shyamalan, and must retrieve it for the following day.
According to Nielsen Media Research, the episode was seen by an estimated 2.21 million household viewers and gained a 1.3/4 ratings share among adults aged 18–49. The episode received mixed reviews from critics, who criticized the disjointed storylines.
Plot
Eric (Kevin Connolly) must meet with Harvey (Maury Chaykin) to inform him of their decision to hold back on acquiring Medellín. Drama (Kevin Dillon) asks Vince (Adrian Grenier) to use his star power to influence Nel Lourie (Stephen Tobolowsky), the mayor of Beverly Hills, to annex his apartment into Beverly Hills. Lourie is delighted to spend the day with Vince and his friends.
Ari (Jeremy Piven) receives a script by M. Night Shyamalan, promising to read the 200-page script for the following day. This conflicts with a dinner with Melissa (Perrey Reeves) and her friend, so Ari rushes the dinner to get back home earlier to start reading the script. However, Ari realizes that his car was mistaken for another; the left the script in the other car, and the new car includes sex toys. Using GPS, he returns to the owner's house in Oxnard. The owner's wife was unaware of his visit to the restaurant, but Ari leaves in his car after finding the script intact. On his way back, he is stopped by a police cruiser for a speeding ticket and spends the night in jail, where he starts reading the script. However, Shyamalan says he disliked the ending and makes him read a new ending he wrote.
Eric meets with Harvey at a restaurant, and while Harvey says he wants to slow down his stress, he warns that he doesn't like people who break his trust. Seeing that Vince is at a club, Harvey forces Eric to accompany him there. Lourie bonds with a person at the party, although the boys discover the person to be a transvestite. While surprised, Lourie does not care, confident that they shared a great evening. Harvey gets into a heated argument with a waiter, and he is taken out by security guards. Drama seizes the opportunity to say they won't sell the film to him, causing Vince to state that he will make sure to destroy his career, unclear if it refers to Eric or Drama. The following day, the boys find that TMZ has leaked a video of Lourie's encounter outside the club.
Production
Development
The episode was written by series creator Doug Ellin, and directed by Ken Whittingham. This was Ellin's 30th writing credit, and Whittingham's fourth directing credit.
Reception
Viewers
In its original American broadcast, "Sorry, Harvey" was seen by an estimated 2.21 million household viewers with a 1.3/4 in the 18–49 demographics. This means that 1.3 percent of all households with televisions watched the episode, while 4 percent of all of those watching television at the time of the broadcast watched it. This was a 14% decrease in viewership from the previous episode, which was watched by an estimated 2.55 million household viewers with a 1.6/5 in the 18–49 demographics.
Critical reviews
"Sorry, Harvey" received mixed reviews from critics. Ahsan Haque of IGN gave the episode an "okay" 6.9 out of 10 and wrote, "The entire episode felt a little disjointed and quickly put-together. While it's certainly watchable, "Sorry, Harvey" just doesn't have enough going for it to rank highly against the vast majority of Entourage episodes."
Alan Sepinwall wrote, "Last night's episode wasn't as excruciating as the Lisa Rinna horror show from a week ago, in that it had some (minimal) Ari/Lloyd interaction, M. Night Shyamalan doing one of the better self-parodying cameos and Maury Chaykin taking his scenery-chewing Harvey Weinstein tribute to the next level. But the stories involving the four main characters are now so toothless and predictable that I don't care about anything that happens to them."
Adam Sternbergh of Vulture wrote, "Otherwise, the episode was refreshingly on point. The show's co-creator, Doug Ellin, took the writing credit on the episode, and we hope he'll take a firm hand on the rest of the season, given how much better this week was than the last few painful outings." Trish Wethman of TV Guide wrote, "Tonight's episode definitely helped to renew my faith a little. I've said before that I feel like the wheels have come off the cart with these recent episodes, but tonight was definitely a step in the right direction. Actually, two of my requests from last week were addressed — less Billy Walsh and more Ari — so I can't complain too much."
Dawnie Walton of Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Still, you have to appreciate a story line that ends with full frontal of a tranny and brings all the boys together for the finale. The more the gang is together, the stronger the show gets." Jonathan Toomey of TV Squad wrote, "I think the thing I loved about this episode is the way it mirrored Entourage installments of old as all the stories seemed to flow together. Save for Ari's little diversion with M. Night Shyamalan, this half-hour was wrapped up pretty tightly with plenty of laughs."
Maury Chaykin submitted this episode for consideration for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series at the 60th Primetime Emmy Awards.
References
- "Entourage – WGA Directory". Writers Guild of America West. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- "Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending July 8, 2007". Ratings Ryan. December 24, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- "Broadcast & Cable Nielsens: Week Ending July 1, 2007". Ratings Ryan. December 23, 2020. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- Haque, Ahsan (July 9, 2007). "Entourage: "Sorry, Harvey" Review". IGN. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- Sepinwall, Alan (July 9, 2007). "Coco, beware". What's Alan Watching?. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- Sternbergh, Adam (July 9, 2007). "The 'Entourage' Guilt/Pleasure Index: All That and a Bag of Dildos". Vulture. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- Wethman, Trish (July 8, 2007). "Entourage: The Right Moment". TV Guide. Archived from the original on December 18, 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- Katz, Paul (July 8, 2007). "Sorry, Harvey". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on January 30, 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- Toomey, Jonathan (July 9, 2007). "Entourage: Sorry, Harvey". TV Squad. Archived from the original on July 12, 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
- "Official 2008 EMMYS Episode Submissions". The Envelope Forum, Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 8, 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2024.
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