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    Ray Donovan S6E9 Recap: Dream On

    Ray Donovan fans got a little more under the Christmas tree than a new episode this week — they got the announcement that the series would definitely be returning for a seventh season on Showtime in 2019. Eddie Marsan, who plays Terry Donovan on the show, then announced on Twitter that filming would resume in […] More

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    Ray Donovan S6E8 Recap: Who Once Was Dead

    At the end of last week’s episode, “The 1-3-2,” Ray Donovan was laying in the middle of his living room, hungover and beaten to a pulp. Ray is loyal to those who deserve it, and yet he had sold out his boss, Sam Winslow, as well as Anita Novak, the woman running for mayor of […] More

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    Ray Donovan S6E7 Recap: The 1-3-2

    This was one of those weeks of Ray Donovan where I continually said to myself, “What? What?? WHAAAT?!” Not everything made perfect sense, but I have faith it will in the coming weeks.  The beginning of “The 1-3-2” picks up where we left off last week, with Ray getting thrown into the back of a cop […] More

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    Ray Donovan S6E6 Recap: A Girl Named Maria

    When we left Ray Donovan last week, he had Anita Novak bent over his kitchen counter. Business not so much mixing with pleasure, rather slamming into it. Ray’s efforts to improve a fetching client’s poll numbers in the New York mayoral race had all culminated here — and as this week’s episode “A Girl Named […] More

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    Ray Donovan S6E5 Recap: Ellis Island

    After two weeks of non-stop action, Ray Donovan settles down (sort of) in this week’s episode, “Ellis Island.” Instead of blowing up the Brooklyn Bridge, Ray and company wire the entire structure with dynamite for eventual detonation.  Ray and Smitty are driving home after stomping a mud hole in the Albanians and walking it dry. […] More

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    Ray Donovan S6E4 Recap: “Pudge”

    I didn’t want last week’s episode of Ray Donovan to end, and I didn’t want this week’s installment, “Pudge,” to end either. Both episodes were white knuckle rides, making one question which nail-biting scene was actually going to be the last. As it goes with almost every episode of this series, things are going to […] More

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    Ray Donovan, S6E3 Recap: He Be Tight. He Be Mean.

    Ray Donovan — the show and its titular character — have been in disarray so far this sixth season. Ray is half the man he used to be. His father and primary antagonist, Mickey, has been on lockdown or in a hospital bed. The two driving forces of the series have been aimless, and all […] More

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    Ray Donovan, S6E2 Recap: Staten Island, Part 2

    The sixth season premiere of Ray Donovan felt like sitting in the middle of a thick fog. In the snap of a finger, Ray was a bearded everyman in a fleece jacket, crashing on the couch of a virtual stranger — separated from his occupation, family and home turf of Los Angeles. Ray has never […] More

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    Ray Donovan, S6E1 Recap: Staten Island, Part 1

    Ray Donovan returns for its sixth season with the premiere episode, “Staten Island, Part 1,” still whispering the maxim of season five: Ray is a man adrift. Literally. Liev Schreiber’s titular character was last seen jumping off a building and into the East River, chasing an apparition of his deceased wife, Abby, to the bottom […] More

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    Ray Donovan: A Preview of Season 6

    Before my weekly recaps and analysis of the forthcoming six season of Ray Donovan, let’s take  a look at where the show has been, and where it might go… “Speak softly and carry a big stick,” once wrote Theodore Roosevelt. For five seasons now, Liev Schreiber has portrayed the titular character of Ray Donovan, tweaking […] More