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The actor may have rosacea.

This is speculation about the mystery and the story line, please do not read just in case I could be right it will have been an unintentional spoiler.

I am not enjoying this season at all. The pace is excruciatingly slow and at first I liked the slow pacing, but it crossed over to becoming boring. Why did they need 13 episodes for this season? It could have been shaved down to 6. I had to watch this episode in stages, and it took me 4 sittings to complete it. With all the other great stuff on, I sort of lost interest in this show. The only part I find beautiful are the sets and costumes.

Season 3 story speculation: Why is Detective West even necessary in this series? A critic wrote many years ago... always look with a suspicious eye at the character who is not necessary to the story. West wanted to kill that little fox and he wanted to go find some guys to go beat up. Plus, he beat that suspect in that barn. I say West is seriously disturbed. There is more to him than has been revealed so far.

I could have sworn Chris Cooper was one of the detectives but he is not listed in the credits.

I thought Sam killed herself. I am always critical of the season as it rolls along week to week.... but after the finale I am very said it ended. It's like an old friend who you never totally liked but am sorry to see move away because you will really miss them for a variety of reasons.

I knew this season's finale would end with Ray calling Dr. Alan Alda. So the next season will leap forward to a new and mentally healthy Ray Donovan? Ray is a serial killer and a sociopath. But, Liev Schreiber makes him in some way likable. Ah, it is a miracle how TV f*cks with our heads. So when will season 7 air? In 2020? These long time periods between seasons for so many shows gets me nuts. Bridget trotting out with sandwiches as her family was digging holes to bury dead people who were in that garage getting their heads chopped off was excellent comic relief.

It is hard to analyze them just from the TV series. In documentaries, Sweat has been called a sociopath who thinks only of himself. I read he now considers himself a "celebrity." Yet, in this show he seems likable. You can almost feel sorry for him and believe that he is telling the truth when he says he was not the murderer. There were times I actually wanted him to "make it." I think Matt was a demented man, seriously sick in the head. He had a total disregard for human life. During the "run," he would have killed again to get what he wanted. He was glad Tilly was caught. I think Matt had a bit of the Manson gene in him.

The show lost it's way. It does not even remotely resemble what it was back in season 1. It is just the mental and physical deterioration of the main character and a family that gets beaten up and commits multiple murders and still evades permanent justice.

What a hot mess of total stupidity this show deteriorated into. I don't even know where to begin. Jon Voight seems to enjoy the humor of it all but I am surprised Liev Schreiber has not asked to leave this show. It is beyond preposterous. At the end of every episode Ray is beaten up and surfaces in the next episode like a walking zombie. And each time his zombie state is kicked up a notch. ETA: Liev Schreiber is a producer of RD, so that answers my question.

Well, here goes. I thought that the meeting of Jamie and Brianna was absurdly acted. Jamie met his daughter, who time traveled to be with her parents, and he seemed to have minimal emotions. He should have been brought to his knees overwhelmed with shock, joy, and happy tears. Sam acted as if Brianna had been away for a week on holiday and then returned home. I think Sam does an OK job, but I have never been very impressed by his acting chops. Plus, he urinates and then does not have the ability to wash his hands and touches her face. It speaks volumes about the times back then. I loved the episode nevertheless because there is always a quiet beauty in the way the characters relate to one another and the sets are magnificent.

Is this episode not being put up at midnight On Demand?

David Sweat now has a girlfriend who has a 6 year old daughter. She moved from Long Island to be near him and she visits him twice a week.

In my opinion, this show has turned into a parody of itself, almost a cartoon. How many people has Ray killed and he still has not been arrested? Is he Tony Soprano? I am watching Escape from Dannemora and the true crimes of those two protagonists quickly landed them in prison, yet Ray Donovan rolls along for years and Ray keeps worming his way out of everything. They need to hire new writers for the next season.

Sweat is a very complex guy. My reply is above hidden in a "spoiler."

I think my vision is impaired. I seem to have viewed this episode in a format that fit my entire TV screen and then when I watch it On Demand it is in letterbox format. Is this entire series in letterbox?

Part 7 is 1 hour and 38 minutes long.

Sweat avoided the death penalty because he pleaded guilty and his deal was a life sentence without parole. The writer explained this episode was necessary so nobody "glorified" the escape and Matt and Sweat did not turn into "folk heroes."

It was egg salad! :D I am finding it totally impossible to follow this season's plot, but one thing I do recall is that it was egg salad. Great post, SCRB... but I am totally lost regarding the names and references.

I think your reply is brilliant. There were many who watched who were rooting for these guys to not be caught and this show rolled with that and allowed that feeling to build and then socked the viewers between the eyes with the true reality of their crimes. I am sure that this part will result in a 360 in terms of how viewers will going forward perceive Matt and Sweat.

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The slight consideration they gave to going back when Tilly did not show up was totally insane. They did not know why she did not show up and she could have been home thinking about going to the police in the morning. So if they went back, by morning they could have been totally busted and never had another chance to escape.

Well, I agree with ROUGHING IT. Of course it is a tv series, but joking about what happened to a fictional character has a broader context. It becomes a joke about the topic or subject regardless of whether it happened in real life. I can think of characters in books and shows who were raped or even murdered, but if I made a joke about it... it becomes a joke about rape or murder. I don't think I have to cite examples.

It should have been a 3 season series. It went downhill with the Katie Holmes season, the Albanians, and now this fake race for Mayor.... too preposterous. They should have kept Elliot Gould and wrapped it up tightly. The stories in each season (even with the Abby story line) seem contrived.

Who was in that other hospital room next door to Ray? Terry?