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I just caught the first episode on Sky On Demand.
Soon to be on Atlantic, it seems we have a worthy successor to Banshee.
Liv Schreiber play a fixer to Hollywood's rich and famous.
I enjoyed it a lot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2249007/
Soon to be on Atlantic, it seems we have a worthy successor to Banshee.
Liv Schreiber play a fixer to Hollywood's rich and famous.
I enjoyed it a lot.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2249007/
We've had the 1st 3 episodes now. It's pretty good, Jon Voight's character is very dark indeed and getting darker. It's well played by Voight, very believable as this seedy old gangster coming out after a long stretch and lacking any kind of moral sensibility. I like Eddie Marsan in it too, he's convincing as a Yank and his character is multi faceted and vulnerable. Showtime have already commissioned a second series.
I've been really enjoying this series.... but I feel the same frustration I did with The Sopranos - the 'business' side of the Ray's life is so much more interesting to me that his home life - it's a series about a Hollywood fixer whose pretty crazy when needed and does a lot of cool spy/PI type s
t, so why spend 80% of each programme showing his domestic issues with his Wife and who his Daughter hangs out with. I get they need broad spectrum appeal and if they don't at least establish his background it gets a bit silly - but it can feel like a US Soap opera with occasional sparks of interest sometimes.
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P-Jay said:
I've been really enjoying this series.... but I feel the same frustration I did with The Sopranos - the 'business' side of the Ray's life is so much more interesting to me that his home life - it's a series about a Hollywood fixer whose pretty crazy when needed and does a lot of cool spy/PI type s
t, so why spend 80% of each programme showing his domestic issues with his Wife and who his Daughter hangs out with. I get they need broad spectrum appeal and if they don't at least establish his background it gets a bit silly - but it can feel like a US Soap opera with occasional sparks of interest sometimes.
I agree with your comments about his 'business' life being better than his home. Come to think about it, your comment about The Sopranos was also correct.![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
At the moment it would appear his home and work lives are somewhat intertwined, but the wifey / kids stuff is proving a bit of a distraction.
P-Jay said:
I've been really enjoying this series.... but I feel the same frustration I did with The Sopranos - the 'business' side of the Ray's life is so much more interesting to me that his home life - it's a series about a Hollywood fixer whose pretty crazy when needed and does a lot of cool spy/PI type s
t, so why spend 80% of each programme showing his domestic issues with his Wife and who his Daughter hangs out with. I get they need broad spectrum appeal and if they don't at least establish his background it gets a bit silly - but it can feel like a US Soap opera with occasional sparks of interest sometimes.
But the USP of The Sopranos, and the reason why it was so successful, was that it showed the gang boss as a normal person. The fact that he had to deal with all the real life domestic stuff and the fact that the show highlighted his vulnerabilities made it more believable.![](/inc/images/censored.gif)
I'm enjoying Ray Donovan but it's far more superficial and the hero is nowhere near as multi dimensional as Tony Soprano.
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