Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
Showtime's Ray Donovan completed its Season 1 run tonight, and the most one can really say is that the last couple of episodes have been on-par with what we've come to expect from the series. The finale didn't derail anything, necessarily, nor did it entirely rebound from the earlier stumbles. As a viewer, I am left with only minimal interest, at best, in the ongoing saga of the Donovan family; which ultimately, speaks volumes.
Ray Donovan came in with a strong pilot, full of promise. The idea of Jon Voight and Liev Schreiber, with their formidable combined talents, sharing the screen, going mono-a-mono as a father and son standing at the center of a fractured, and at least in part criminal, family, offered an inherent draw. Added to that, was Ray. He was an intrigue as a character who was neither a contemporary antihero, nor a classic hero, but rather, seemingly, a man struggling to do right in the confines of a corrupt, but mostly legal, framework. There was a lightness to his Hollywood antics that balanced the family angst.
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