We haven’t really touched on “Entourage” since the Relevant Irrelevance column a couple of months ago. For a little while we considered doing a Morning After post every Monday where we broke down each episode, but decided against it after coming to the conclusion that a weekly article tormenting our favorite miscast midget, Kevin Connelly, might get old after a while.

Well, now we’re back to pass judgement on “Entourage” in a way that has nothing to do with Connelly’s inability to ride most roller coasters. This morning we came across the “Medellin” the film website (courtesy of Popoholic). It’s a kind of cool piece of faux marketing for “Entourage” fans. It’s also another glaring example of the show’s underachievement.

First, let us just communicate that we think the “Medellin” concept on “Entourage” is tremendous. We watch the show because of the behind the scenes stuff like this. We love the idea of having our hand held through the production of a low budget passion project/crime biopic. We even really enjoyed the one documentary-esque episode dedicated to the filming in Columbia.

But–of course–in the same vein as Kevin Connelly, there’s a major flaw that completely undermines everything cool about the concept and keeps us from taking it seriously: Adrian Grenier looks like a fucking idiot in the Pablo Escobar fat suit. He looks like he’s in a shitty Halloween costume or unfunny SNL sketch.

Pablo Escobar coming off as a sweaty guy with a debilitating peanut allergy, pretty much epitomizes why “Entourage” is a good but not great show. They never go the extra mile. “Entourage” is Ken Griffey, Jr. Everything was in place for greatness, but they just haven’t worked hard enough. Would it have been that fucking hard to put the dude who plays Vince on a Krispy Kreme diet for a month to make things more realistic? Sure, that Vegan probably has something in his contract about drinking wheat grass seven times a day, but it seems like he could have made the sacrifice for the show to scarf down one funnel cake an hour for a week.

Whatever. They suck. They blew it on this one. You know it. We know it. Now, go to the “Medellin” website and watch the trailer and think about what a cool deal this would have been if Pablo Escobar didn’t look like a muppet.

Update:

Holy shit. By pure coincidence, we just found out that the dude who plays Vince dates SI swimsuit model, Melissa Keller (pictured here). WTF? Seriously, this guy better come down with elephantitis or something soon to even life up a little bit.

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