Ray Donovan

[Unrighteous]

It was pretty damn decent.  I'll watch season 2 for sure.

[Guest Numero Veinticinco]

First couple of episodes I thought it had real potential, but it went downhill towards the end. I thought overall it was decent, nothing more.

 

I fucking hate his wife in it as well.

I watched the first three and binned it, glad I did now.

[Barrington Womble]

Thought it finished better than it started. Not sure I'll bother with season 2 though.

[JER]

The best shows like Breaking Bad and the Sopranos mix the lighter parts with the necessary darker parts - this show had no humour and felt like you were watching a pastiche of all the great shows that it was trying to emulate. 

[VladimirIlyich]

The plot is a bit meh but the characters and some of the acting is pretty good.

Im no student of accents but some of those Boston accents are a bit ropey.

Jon Voight is brilliant too. Steven Bauer as an Israeli is a bit of a stretch too.

Better than average and worth watching but not in the league of Breaking Bad,The Sopranos et al.

[polymerpunkah]

Loved it.

 

Didn't see the first few episodes, but his wife's over-broad accent aside, thought it was great.

[Scott_M]

I enjoyed it, it was good though, not great.

 

He's wife is a nosey cunt through, needs a good slap - her, Carmela, Skylar etc are all ungrateful bitches.

[aws]

I enjoyed it, it was good though, not great.

 

He's wife is a nosey cunt through, needs a good slap - her, Carmela, Skylar etc are all ungrateful bitches.

 

Stock characters for US series. A bit like the difficult (but brave) 15 year old daughter and the wayward younger brother.

 

I thought it was a good show though.

[Champ]

First couple of episodes I thought it had real potential, but it went downhill towards the end. I thought overall it was decent, nothing more.

 

I fucking hate his wife in it as well.

 

 

I enjoyed it, it was good though, not great.

 

He's wife is a nosey cunt through, needs a good slap - her, Carmela, Skylar etc are all ungrateful bitches.

 

Perspective. I liked all the 'domestic' stuff and wanted to see more character development of him and his family. And I could absolutely see where she was coming from

[Sugar Ape]

Perspective. I liked all the 'domestic' stuff and wanted to see more character development of him and his family. And I could absolutely see where she was coming from

 

Negged.

[Kevin D]

I think it's crap and I'm probably not going to watch next season. There isn't anywhere near enough "fixer" stuff, which the adverts and hype had suggested would be central to the show, and the only person I find interesting is Mickey who is not on screen enough to justify putting up with the rest of the absurdity and repetitive, tedious, formulaic, family shite.

[Sugar Ape]

I think it's crap and I'm probably not going to watch next season. There isn't anywhere near enough "fixer" stuff, which the adverts and hype had suggested would be central to the show, and the only person I find interesting is Mickey who is not on screen enough to justify putting up with the rest of the absurdity and repetitive, tedious, formulaic, family shite.

 

Yeah, think I might fuck next season off. Don't know yet. It's in no way deserving of high praise anyway. The family stuff is tedious, Bunchy is annoying and any problems they have are resolved too easily by Ray waving a baseball bat at someone. There are a lot of better show out there, for sure.

[Champ]

Negged.

 

Yawn

[Sugar Ape]

Yawn

 

Negged.

[Champ]

Negged.

 

And you've still another 3 to go, I believe. 

[Paul]

How are people getting on with this?

 

I have to say that after my initial excitement its fallen a bit flat for me the last couple of episodes. Does the lack of posts give me a clue?

Flat???!!!??? Not enough murder or revelations about childhood for you?

[Champ]

Flat in the sense that it didn't engage me as I wanted to be. It felt that in each episode there was a focus on a certain character that wasn't necessarily developed in subsequent episodes.

[VladimirIlyich]

The family stuff makes me laugh(in an ironic way of course) 'Please Ray stop all violence and Murder but dont take away my 5 million dollar house and designer clothes that i have without lifting a finger.'

Very cliched US family stuff.

[Barrington Womble]

The family stuff is shite. As mentioned before with the pain in the arse daughter too, with dodgy taste in men. I thought the whole show was a bit like that to be honest. I didn't think there was one likeable character but the reason they weren't likeable, is there was nothing to any of them, you just got to see the clichéd surface. I didn't think there was anything in the show most people could write.

[Robbo29]

just finished watching it on sky+. Loved it, thought it was well acted, good plot, like it all and made up its gonna be back, will deffo be watching it

[Paulie Dangerously]

Started watching S2 on my gypo stick last night.  Hooked again.  

[Scott_M]

Just finished the 4th season this week.

 

The 1st season was good, the 2nd a bit less good, 3rd was a bit crap & 4th is rank.

 

I won't be re-visiting for season 5.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I've enjoyed almost every epsiode, the finale of 4 wasn't great but it's a great tv show.

[Anny Road]

It jumps between good and dire. Mostly dire with a swirl of shit acting mixed in.

[Fowlers God]

4 Th series was one of the best