not enough skin for me this year... and I thought Ari's story line was immensely more interesting than Vince's, especially the two episode will he or won't he take the studio gig run.
also, the Scorcese thing just felt like the writer's wrote themselves into a corner and decided to wave a magic wand to make everything better.
loved Drama's line when they all met back in E's office.
Those bold above were good episodes, I agree. But Ari is the most interesting character on the show, anyway.
I don't know about writing themselves into a corner with Scorcese. They took Vince to rock bottom, and E threw a desperation punch in the air. Then Scorcese comes along to catch that punch, and a lead in a Martin movie pretty much means oscar attention, so Vince will be catapulted from the bottom to the top. I don't think there's another director other than Spielberg that they could have used to instantly put Vince as universally relevant again (and I think they already went to the Spielberg well in an early episode).
The show's formula is rags to riches to rags to riches, rinse and repeat. In a show that never really has "ok" as a result and the outcomes are always either "terrible" or "blockbuster of all time" I understand using Martin as the catylst to get Vince back on top after being so low where nobody would even think of hiring him. It was a jolt and left no doubt that Vince was back on top in a big way. Getting a Van Sant role, not so much.
Gary Cole is going to be a freaking disaster, though. Complete. (the character, not the actor..I love Cole).