Sopranos vs Entourage

Water cooler debate of Monday (at least if you are anywhere near your 20s-30s)...Sopranos vs Entourage. Both shows came back for their new season. Both on HBO. Both back to back on Sunday night. Both the only things worth watching Sunday night unless you had the urge to watch Banned From The Bible II on The History Channel.

Let's first start with The Sopranos....

The show is showing it's age much like it's main character. The show still wants to be young and hip like it was 3 or so years ago but it knows it is on its way out as the boss of the premier cable tv series. The show was somewhat insulated because it was a "boss" and now it knows it is on it's way out. The shot the show took in the stomach in the form of Johnny Cakes and not so gangsta plot lines last season really has done the boss in. Pretty much the show deserves to go to the retirement home after this season. The twists are not quite twists but slight bends. Like Tony, the show is getting beat up by a younger guy...except he is not a fat 40 year old italian but Vincent Chase.

On to Entourage....

While Sopranos was getting coverage everywhere else in the media HBO decided to toss a bunch of money into print ads, commercials with DirecTV, and at the Staples Center. Why? Because Entourage is LA. LA is Entourage. What better place then a Laker game defines celebrity downtime in LA? Not to mention one of the scenes in the first episode of season 4 is...yup court side at the Laker game for Vincent Chase' birthday and also a topic of debate between two agents battling for Mr. Chase. The show is everything the Sopranos is not...young, fresh, hilarious, better plot lines, in it's prime, positive, more realistic, and the main character actually challenges the 'bad guys' in Hollywood.

Not only did Tony get whooped by a rug and a fat italian guy who looks like baby huey, he got his ass whipped by a young upcomming actor in LA by the name of Vincent Chase.