Adios Amigos (S3E20)
This week's episode was a bit haphazard, but it was the "finale" of Season 3 despite the fact that there is only a one-week break before Season 4 starts. It was just strange that little has been going on in the last few episodes, and suddenly this episode had something like 3 or 4 significant storylines.
First off they're finally moving out of their mansion since they sold it to buy the Medellin script. So now Drama's looking for a small place but then gets talked into getting a really expensive place just because of the "Iron Chef" kitchen. Pretty nonsensical, but isn't every Turtle and Drama adventure?
The previous comments made in the last few reviews about Sloan were right. There's nothing interesting going on with her and E anymore, and at least E showed that he could pretty much care less if Medellin ends up ending their relationship. Apparently he's not all that committed.
Of course Billy Walsh is nothing but trouble. Trouble with E, trouble with Nicky Rubenstein, trouble with Ari, and now he wants to make the movie in Spanish? Is it too late to find a different director? He's probably going to destroy their movie. Sure Queen's Boulevard was gold, but this sounds like it is not going to get so lucky.
Ari pretty much played a back seat to all the action, though I did like seeing him drop his food and chopsticks when Billy made a ridiculous comment about leaving to take a dump in the middle of the meal. "Now I'm gonna go dump, you let me know."
In general a pretty good episode to wrap up the season. It'll be interesting to see if Season 4 picks up where this left off, or further into the future. It seems like they would have a storyline about tension with Billy if they picked up in the same spot, and they do like that tension. But as far as seasons go it may make more sense to jump to where the movie's nearly finished.
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Posted by: dave on Jun 5th, 2007 | 2:26pm
Presumably, season 4 begins with Medillin ready to premiere, because that's how they've done all the other season openers.
Ari's chopsticks were utterly fantastic.
Also, I think it was a bad choice to go with Walsh. I know he's a good director, but he blew up at the QB festival, that should have been enough. No one can trust him..
Also, a bigger question. Shouldn't final cut only entail the final editing decisions, not every major decision along the way, like what language or genre the movie is. I mean, if Walsh wanted to make it a comedy couldn't the studio say no? I don't think final cut means you can do whatever the hell you want.
Side note: I looked for this thread yesterday to comment on, and missed it. whoops.