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Aug. 14th, 2015 04:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seekingferretLate in Season 3 of Entourage, we get a Yom Kippur episode that is just mindbogglingly amazing. Ari and a fellow congregant at a major LA Reform temple are forced by their families to attend Yom Kippur services and fast, when what they would prefer to do is try to make a deal to sign Vince to a major movie deal. The person they need to make the deal with is two miles away at the Orthodox shul. The sneaking of phones, the shamefaced conversations on supposed bathroom breaks, THIS is a compelling drama about Jews negotiating messy, complicated Jewish lives.
-You want me to lie?
-That is the beauty of Yom Kippur. As long as you apologize by sundown it doesn’t matter what you do.
The only other Yom Kippur episode I have seen of any show is the Coupling (US) episode whose central joke is that a bunch of non-Jews think that Yom Kippur celebrates Moses's birthday. That has a horrifying kind of humor to it, but this episode has so much more Jewish depth, while still being hilarious.
-You want me to lie?
-That is the beauty of Yom Kippur. As long as you apologize by sundown it doesn’t matter what you do.
The only other Yom Kippur episode I have seen of any show is the Coupling (US) episode whose central joke is that a bunch of non-Jews think that Yom Kippur celebrates Moses's birthday. That has a horrifying kind of humor to it, but this episode has so much more Jewish depth, while still being hilarious.