Mickey Donovan: Daddy Dearest

[David T. Cole]

Your grossest Dad ever topic.

[ethalfrida]

As much as I hate the things he did I just knew he wasn't going to be shackled easily and was rooting for him. I love the parole officer (forgot his real name) so it is hard to choose sides. Everyone is corrupt, lol, so Abby is the one who doesn't count with me. I can do without her character, totally. but I love that Mickey loves his son's mother. IDK, it's just so the thing that would happen to a guy like him.

[Carolina Girl]

I binge watched this after a friend recommended it and I saw the season premiere was coming up.

Mickey Donovan - I swear this guy is the biggest fuck-up in the free world.  

I swear, the standard reponse to Mickey saying "I got somethin' goin'" should be to run as fast as you can to the next zip code.

However, props to Mickey for getting the $2MM in bets placed in Vegas after Fat Guy pulled an Elvis.

[scrb]

Voight brings it.

You can see the emotions running through him as he kills Primm's henchman and Primm himself.

 

Mickey is also about the only Donovan who can consistently find joy.  Of course the boys have been through hell and are given to many of the same self-destructive behavior but they're always mopey while Mickey can often tap into reservoirs of happiness, if only temporary.

Voight does a great job of expressing all these things.

[scrb]

Now that the series is canceled, it made me think about this character, who's a polarizing figure.

In recent seasons, they really made him this unrelenting criminal force.

He decided he was owed millions of dollars, first with the Vegas casino owner.  He ended up massacring people in his pursuit of that money.

Then this season, he said he wanted to leave a legacy, to get some of the money he felt he was wronged out of back in Boston.  Again he spills a lot of blood in that pursuit.

The casino arc was shocking but kind of understandable.  His blunders put his gf in jeopardy and then she gets killed and he kills everyone in a crime of passion.

But this last arc with Jim Sullivan, he talks about leaving a legacy but he doesn't care how many people he has to kill or torture to get what he wants.

I don't think the viewers have any illusions about Mickey being a murderer, since the pilot started with him killing someone but it seems far more out of control than what we've seen from him.

In the early seasons, he brought some lightness and joy to his gloomy family, not exactly the temperament which is compatible with a cold blooded murderer.

 

[SunnyBeBe]

On 8/7/2017 at 7:32 PM, scrb said:

Voight brings it.

You can see the emotions running through him as he kills Primm's henchman and Primm himself.

 

Mickey is also about the only Donovan who can consistently find joy.  Of course the boys have been through hell and are given to many of the same self-destructive behavior but they're always mopey while Mickey can often tap into reservoirs of happiness, if only temporary.

Voight does a great job of expressing all these things.

True. If you’re full of misery like Ray and Bunchy, then suffer in prison. Mickey enjoys life. The least suited for prison. Lol. Terry is a sad sack too, but he has a reason to be that way.