Ray Donovan Season 4

[JayBee74]

Season 4 starts this Sunday (6-26) but you can watch the first episode ON DEMAND or YouTube right now.

[daflyboys]

Just finishing up s 03 and while I enjoyed s 01, I thought it started to go over the top in 2 and 3 bringing in too many intense elements too quickly. Should have spent more time on some of the lesser characters' development and extend some of the scenes. The rapid fire scenes tend to ruin this series for me. But it's like a trainwreck.....hard to watch and hard to look away.

[JayBee74]

Flawed, sometimes over the top, but I love the show. Mickey Donovan (Jon Voight) is one of a kind.

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by JayBee74

Flawed, sometimes over the top, but I love the show. Mickey Donovan (Jon Voight) is one of a kind.

Mickey steals the show, haha.

I agree with your assessment daflyboys.
Season 1 seemed more grounded in reality and was more of a slow burn.
Season 2, and especially Season 3, took it to a new comic-booky level.
I also wish the show kept it's slower pace and let some of the storylines flesh out.
But I'm still loving this series. I think it may have actually surpassed GoT on my list.

[JayBee74]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

But I'm still loving this series. I think it may have actually surpassed GoT on my list.

That's surprising. My interest for GOT evaporated early, but I know it's hugely popular worldwide and OS-Wide.

Ray's new outlook, although still evolving, is a welcome change.

At age 46 Abby's "physique" isn't shabby.

Suggestion for Lena-you're too hot to have your hair covering half of your face.

[HealyMonster]

Quote: Originally Posted by JayBee74

Flawed, sometimes over the top, but I love the show. Mickey Donovan (Jon Voight) is one of a kind.

They need to make a show where Mickey Donovan and Frank Gallagher become roomAtes.

[JayBee74]

Season 5 starts this Sunday (August 6) with Susan Sarandon in a season long recurring role.

Below is a short preview video of episode one, just like the ones during the season that preview the next week.

SPOILER ALERT

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[Money99]

I have to admit, last season was kind of 'meh' for me.
I've loved this series since Day 1 and I'll continue to watch it.
But I kind of hope they go back to Ray being a bad-*** cleaner who has his crap together.

Some of the things that bothered me:

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How he was so scared of those Eastern European mobsters for an entire season and then in the end, he decides to kill them. All 4 of them. It took them longer to make a sandwich than to clear them out. Shouldn't that have been done in the first episode?

Ray literally did nothing to the cop that was banging his wife. I would have thought Ray, and all his connections, would have done something more than just let sleeping dogs lie.

He gets his brother out of jail, no questions asked, after he was convicted of armed robbery?
I know he has pull, but even that was far-fetched.

His daughter's relationship to a teacher was cleaned-up in a hurry. Literally with one line of dialogue.
I'm guessing they scrapped that story arc due to actor unavailability? Or due to some off-screen issues?
It seemed rushed and lacked a proper ending.
And, again, I would have preferred it ended with Ray handling things.

There's more, but I don't want to drag it out.

I really do like this show, but after last season, I kind of felt like they should be wrapping this series up.
The main reason I don't want them to is Mickey. John Voight deserves an Emmy.
He is to this show what The Hound is to GoT's.