S04.E02: Marisol

[ElectricBoogaloo]

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On the eve of a momentous boxing match, Ray helps Hector handle a person from his past who risks unearthing a secret that could ruin his career. As Bunchy attempts to please a very pregnant Teresa, Abby offers him a lesson in marital compromise. Meanwhile, outside the Fite Club an act of petty larceny leads to a new trainee and renewed sense of purpose for Terry. Bitter from her botched sting operation and out for justice, Detective Muncie uses incriminating evidence against the Donovans to force Ray's hand, drawing him further into the path of the Russian Mafia.

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Edited June 27, 2016 by ElectricBoogaloo

[Dobian]

Doesn't that priest have anything else to do besides stalk Ray?  Father Creepy.

[paigow]

WTF #1...High ranking Russian Mobster drives to bath-house without any bodyguards

WTF #2...Ray and Avi carry body into busy harbour office undetected

WTF #3...Bring someone you just abducted to a public place with a lot of witnesses

Edited July 4, 2016 by paigow

[Joimiaroxeu]

WTF #4...Abducting a high ranking Russian mobster in broad daylight. None of the the surrounding buildings would have security cameras? No one would happen to be looking out the window?

Lisa Bonet is an underrated actress. I think it's probably easy to go over-the-top with portrayals of drug users/addicts but she seems to be avoiding that so far.

[ethalfrida]

I agree about Lisa because she nailed her part.

[Puddy]

More WTF's

Who gives a drug addict her purse? It should have been gone through and cleaned out.

Does that car have child proof door locks?

Why was Ray transporting such a high risk person alone?

Seriously.

[ElectricBoogaloo]

As screwed up as Ray's family is, Hector's is even worse. Marisol's father rapes her and teachers her that sex is how you show love so she then proceeds to rape her much younger half brother who was molested by a priest. Poor Hector lost that fight to punish himself. He loves Marisol and he hates her, and he hates himself for loving her and hating her.

Ha, I had to laugh at Bunchy when he pointed out how weird it was for him to be at the sex store shopping for a dildo for his wife with his sister in law.

Edited July 5, 2016 by ElectricBoogaloo

[cattykit]

I'm sorry, but I hated this episode.  It did nothing to advance the story.  I guess we're supposed to see whether Ray can stay on his priest-induced redemption arc, and of course he can't, like that would ever be a surprise.  While of course Terry is on his redemption arc to sainthood.  Like anyone believes Mickey will stay on a bus to anywhere and not come right back like a damn boomerang.  The sex toy story was boring and who didn't easily predict the guy would be a relative of Theresa?  I guessed brother but cousin was close enough.  Not nearly enough Lena and Avi, who are hands down the best part of any episode they're in.  Lisa Bonet couldn't have looked more rode hard and put up wet if she'd actually been rode hard and put up wet.  I guess that's a tribute to her skills.  And not a single security camera at a damn TV network to pick up a big-ass kidnapping?  I didn't quite understand how anything said by the boxer's wrung-out sister would have more than 15 seconds of shelf life, or how nobody at the network would have vetted what she was going to say before she went on the air.  The show might as well send the spawn off to college or jail or whatever for all they add to the story, too.  And other than Abby looking wistfully at naked tits, what are they doing with her supposed breast cancer?  Waiting for it magically to go away?  The Eastern European gangsters were not terribly interesting last year, but at least they had the always-fabulous Grace Zabriskie and now there is nothing to make them interesting.  So somebody glares menacingly as Ray drives off.  Wow, scary.  This is just a never-ending saga of Ray and his surrounds always walking into a pile of shit and tap-dancing their way around it without humor or creativity.  Hate, hate, hate.

[jrlr]

And meanwhile, seemingly unnoticed by either busy parent, Conor is turning into the potentially biggest asshole of the bunch.  Kid should be sent to military school or else, just drop out of school and go to work as an enforcer for his dad.

This episode was just plain boring.  Everything that happened had the feeling of 'we've seen it before,' from the getting-to-be-really-redundant-pedophile-priests-and-Ray/Bunch/Terry-struggles angle to Bridget being checked out of most reality (although she did actually notice that there was something wrong about Abby, which is more than Ray did)  and Mickey's stunningly predictable plans to return to the exact place he's been banished from to fail at yet another fucked up illegal action that Ray will have to bail him out of.   Nothing new about any of this.  

RD seems to have lost its mojo and is just treading water now.  Let's hope it doesn't just disappears into the fog of "used to be good."  

[ElectricBoogaloo]

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And meanwhile, seemingly unnoticed by either busy parent, Conor is turning into the potentially biggest asshole of the bunch.  Kid should be sent to military school or else, just drop out of school and go to work as an enforcer for his dad.

This was definitely one of the worst things this week. First he was talking to Daryll about how he would bone his own sister if she were super hot, then he jumped into the Bunchy/Daryll discussion to say they should kick the ass of the guy who was talking to Teresa. I guess he's turning out to be more like Mickey than we could have imagined.

[Puddy]

I am hoping the boringness of this episode was for the people that just started watching this season.  The most interesting part was Terry staking out the neighborhood and spotting the stolen purse.  I would have just waited at the boxing match and kicked the shit out of the people that took the stolen seats, but hey, that's just me.

A+ to Showtime for incorporating their boxing into this show.  It was nice to see Victor Ortiz and Jack Reiss.

I am Catholic and I want to kick that priest in the nuts.  He is what is still wrong with the church.  I liked the line that said he was protecting the defrocked priests from jail.

[Loandbehold]

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I would have just waited at the boxing match and kicked the shit out of the people that took the stolen seats, but hey, that's just me.

The problem I see with that is if you don't have the purse back, you don't have tickets. Unless you're going to dress up as security and check everyone's ticket before they enter the arena you won't know who has the tickets.

[Puddy]

No, my husband (Ray Donovan) would get me in or I would be there with the police.  Take your pick.

[tricknasty]

Someone please refresh my memory. What happened to Terry's girlfriend?

[paigow]

14 hours ago, tricknasty said:

Someone please refresh my memory. What happened to Terry's girlfriend?

You mean the married nurse that witnessed the priest getting killed in the gym? That was her cue to walk away...

[Ailianna]

I love Lena even more because it looked like she was watching Shark Week while she was babysitting the locked up druggie sister.  And the week it aired was actually Shark Week!

[TV Anonymous]

On 7/4/2016 at 11:24 PM, Puddy said:

More WTF's

Who gives a drug addict her purse? It should have been gone through and cleaned out.

Does that car have child proof door locks?

Why was Ray transporting such a high risk person alone?

Seriously.

CMIIW, child's locks are only on the rear doors of a car (where the children are suppose to be).