New TV series Ray Donovan: The evil Ray and his little brothers – STAR

R ay Donovan is a hard-working Americans. He runs a small company, provides women and children and keeps a protective hand over his brothers – one is sick, the other backward. Ms. Abby nags about the house in the suburb of Calabasas, the daughter flirts with the wrong guys, and the Son because of his lack of self control trouble at school. For Ray’s job is exciting: He cares that the concerns of Hollywood stars disappear

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Oh yes, almost as you would expect at home. the audience, but there is something wrong with Ray. Behind its discreet, jovial chubby cheeks, a penchant for expensive watches and an elegant Mercedes CLS lurks a wall of pure hatred and violence. To preserve his work, Hollywood celebrities before scandals and other stupidities, is only partly take on the understanding couch, the more important half done Ray with the baseball bat.

In the first few episodes appeared the spectators in a world Rays. Ray calms nymphomaniac Starlets, rescues a baseball stars before a seed robber and stalkers shows its limits. But the image of the rugged Celebrity helper gets cracks shall be dismissed no later than when his criminal father from prison.

lead actor Liev Schreiber is the biggest surprise of the series. Otherwise clerk was just as nice family Daddy known, or the well-intentioned but poorly made history colossal ham “Defiance” about the Jewish resistance. Here he plays the Ray Donovan as filled-volcano that is about to erupt. The magazine “Variety” said Schreiber, he accepted the role because Ray “does not talk much.” The challenge as an actor is to show how “Ray reacts to what others say and do around him. It is a silent role, and quite different from anything I’ve done before in the film and on stage.” Ray is a great Schweiger, also about reminding the TV series of the films noir with Humphrey Bogart or Robert Mitchum.

occupied Best are the supporting roles. Donovan brothers Eddie Marsan as sick boxing trainer Teddy and Dash Mihok as retarded giant Bunchy, while running only in the later episodes on top form. For mixed Angelina Jolie’s father Jon Voight immediately the fragile family idyll.

Two who do not like:. Mickey and Ray Donovan © Showtime

Mickey is the criminal, unreliable and egomaniacal father the brothers. This Donovan Clan is less held together by love than by a black secret, the early death of his sister. The most important woman of the series is hard to grasp and yet always present in the tattoos and the silence of the brothers. And of course, bad-ass Granddady Voight has something to do with her death.

No sooner freed from prison, Grandpa wants to make old failings against its children well. In his own way. Was the first act on his reconciliation List of Grandpa shoots a priest who had once passed to son bunchy. In fact, he got the wrong man of God, but that does not matter, the other will come later still there.

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The infernal old man with his penchant to dance and drugs, like black prostitute brings to family celebrations, quickly ruining the artistic life building Rays. The series is about how Ray tries with ever more radical means to prevent the impending collapse. By the end you rästelt why Ray his father so hates and why the otherwise intractable Mickey penalties of his son endured without complaint.

Ann Biderman (Southland) has also in Ray Donovan, a whole housed ranks of veterans, bring their own gloss in the series. Such as when the “ass-man” and declared lover of black women Jon Voight dances or when Elliot Gould – the Big Boss Ezra in the background – gradually loses his mind because of a tumor. Grandpa Mickey can be later despite her “bony” buttock on a Armour with Rosanna Arquette. A love that will end a dusty hole in the ground. And James Woods plays in Ray Donvan again what he always best was: an unpredictable killer – this time in retirement

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