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Movie Theater Ray Donovan

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  • Mar 24, 2006
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    Saw the 1st season and it was pretty good .
    Was good to see Jon Voight in another role, as he is getting a little long in the tooth . He plays role of a miswired, twisted sickfuck father returning from 20-year stretch from Walpole MA. to reunite with 3 sons .
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    Season Two lookin' good so far. Ray back to being pure Ray. The ending of S02E01 was a fade-to-black classic.

    I thought it was really interesting how they didn't bring up Avi's past until late in the first season. If you're an accent-o-phile, that clearly is an Israeli accent (and not a half-bad impression), which initially made his past a mystery. Pretty cool they weren't playing to the lowest common denominator by just blurting it out to give him credibility as a man of violence. It only ever came up because Ray's son was asking Avi a bunch of typical kid questions. One thing I hate is clumsy exposition, and that was slick.

    I love the psycho lezzie bitch Lena. Definitely one of the more interesting characters on a TV drama. You got a security firm of these hard-core bone-breakers, and the most unstable one of the lot of them is the woman who dresses like a rock-n-roll groupie.
     
    I'm just starting the first season, good actors.
    Don't know if it's the way they shoot the scenes but, I'm reminded of the Soprano's.

    I like the trend of big screen actors playing in tv shows.