This week's episode was not great. I was mostly unhappy with the number of cheesy moments they threw in. There were several in the Dom storyline with E repeatedly getting embarrassed about being wrong about Dom, and in Vince's speech about Dom. The whole plot was unrelated to everything and felt completely unnecessary.
Then there were more cheesy moments in the Turtle and Drama plot, with Drama taking Turtle on as an assistant, treating him like crap, and then giving him a speech about how great he is and that they're family. And Drama turned down the girl in the trailer? After she said she was his biggest fan? No way.
A game of golf...is that something you might be interested in?
Then, E is suddenly avoiding his managing duties? What was he doing? Why did he leave the negotiations about Charlie and let Vince make the deal? I like how Amy Miller had to say "I get it" to make it obvious Charlie had made a joke...the writers couldn't just have her laugh and let us figure out a joke was made?
Finally, Ari's golf game. Ari's plan was to hustle Alan. But Alan had Phil Mickelson coaching him, and was hustling Ari. That was pretty amusing. Bob Ryan was somewhat funny in trying to annoy Ari. And then Ari misses both opportunities (no way he'd have missed that badly on the first one) and you're wondering how he can possibly get out of this problem. Oh look! Alan has a heart attack! Seriously? That's the best way they could come up with to resolve the situation? By killing Alan? And Drama's line "is it?" regarding Alan's death being a bad thing seemed lame and out-of-character.
Overall I've been liking this season, but this episode had too many forced moments and too many completely unrelated-to-anything moments. Hopefully it was just an off-episode.
This was a review of Episode 60. See more reviews. And here's HBO's music credits for this episode (may not be up yet).
