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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Ray Donovan 7.1: Getting Ahead of the Head



Ray Donovan came back on Showtime tonight in fine form.  He and his family are still in New York.  One of the dead heads comes up in bag from wherever it exactly was in the waters around the city.  Ray says, don't worry, we'll get ahead of it.  Hence my title for this review.

In case you don't recall, the head is from one of the crooked cops who was killed late last season.  Even though he was crooked, the police who are still alive want to know how that head got to be in the water, after it was shot and severed from its body.  Totally understandable.

But that's not the only problem Ray is dealing with.  He has to make sure Mick doesn't get lost on the way to prison - if he did, Bunch would be in trouble.  And, as you know if you've seen the episode (if not, oops, sorry for the spoiler), Ray apparently ends up a lot worse than lost.  He ends up dead.

Except, I'm a firm believer that, when you're dealing with television drama, if you don't see a head literally blown to bits, the head and its owner could still be alive.  We saw Ray in the coming attractions punching someone who showed up at his door.  I'm predicting that either that's Mick, or, if not, he'll pop up alive someplace else.

What else is going in the family?  Bridget doesn't want to be married anymore.  Terry's trying some new age stuff to get his Parkinson's under control (I thought for a second that I flashed back in time and was watching something from the season before last on The Affair, also on Showtime).  But, anyway, we have the makings of a good new Ray Donovan season here, and I'll be happy to see it and keep reviewing it here.

See Ray Donovan 6.1: The New Friend ... Ray Donovan 6.2: Father and Sons ... Ray Donovan 6.4: Politics in the Ray Style ... Ray Donovan 6.6: The Mayor Strikes Back ... Ray Donovan 6.7: Switching Sides ... Ray Donovan 6.8: Down ... Ray Donovan 6.9: Violence and Storyline ... Ray Donovan 6.10: Working Together ... Ray Donovan 6.11: Settled Scores and Open Questions ... Ray Donovan Season 6 Finale: Snowfall and Mick

See also Ray Donovan 5.1: Big Change  ... Ray Donovan 5.4: How To Sell A Script ... Ray Donovan 5.7: Reckonings ... Ray Donovan 5.8: Paging John Stuart Mill ... Ray Donovan 5.9: Congas ... Ray Donovan 5.10: Bunchy's Money ... Ray Donovan 5.11: I'm With Mickey ... Ray Donovan 5.12: New York

See also Ray Donovan 4.1: Good to Be Back ... Ray Donovan 4.2: Settling In ... Ray Donovan 4.4: Bob Seger ... Ray Donovan 4.7: Easybeats ... Ray Donovan 4.9: The Ultimate Fix ... Ray Donovan Season 4 Finale: Roses

And see also Ray Donovan 3.1: New, Cloudy Ray ... Ray Donovan 3.2: Beat-downs ... Ray Donovan 3.7: Excommunication!

And see also Ray Donovan 2.1: Back in Business ... Ray Donovan 2.4: The Bad Guy ... Ray Donovan 2.5: Wool Over Eyes ... Ray Donovan 2.7: The Party from Hell ... Ray Donovan 2.10: Scorching ... Ray Donovan 2.11: Out of Control ... Ray Donovan Season 2 Finale: Most Happy Ending

And see also Ray Donovan Debuts with Originality and Flair ... Ray Donovan 1.2: His Assistants and his Family ... Ray Donovan 1.3: Mickey ... Ray Donovan 1.7 and Whitey Bulger ... Ray Donovan 1.8: Poetry and Death ... Ray Donovan Season 1 Finale: The Beginning of Redemption


 

It started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of The Misfits and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean" ...

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