Entourage (Seasons 1–8)

Entourage (2004) is an HBO comedy-drama series you can watch online on iFILM. Rising movie star Vince Chase takes on Hollywood with his crew from Queens: manager and best friend Eric, his brother Johnny "Drama" — a man with one decent credit and a very large ego — and driver-slash-fixer Turtle. Running point on every deal is agent Ari Gold, played by Jeremy Piven with the volume permanently at ten.

Each of the eight seasons tracks a new project, a new crisis, a new room that needs to be worked. Creator Doug Ellin based the show on the real Los Angeles life of producer Mark Wahlberg and his childhood friends, which gives the absurdity a layer of actual industry texture. Piven won three consecutive Emmy Awards for Ari Gold. The series wrapped in 2011 after 96 episodes, then returned as a feature film in 2015.

Equal parts wish fulfilment and industry satire, the show maps how friendship, money and ego coexist in a place where the two words heard most often are "we'll see." The tagline — a lifestyle is a terrible thing to waste — nails the whole philosophy. Stream all seasons of Entourage online on iFILM.