Most of the time you have to feel a bit sorry for poor Ray as he tries to keep his increasingly dysfunctional family together while trying to do his day job as well juggling the consequences of his father’s irresponsibility and increasing interest from the FBI. It is not easy being Ray and it certainly doesn’t look it, but there is also almost nothing likeable about him either; he is a very disturbing and alarmingly plausible character.
Season one was a cracking introduction to the characters and their motivations and season two builds upon that solid foundation. No time is wasted on deliberate character development; it just happens organically as the season progresses so there is nothing to interrupt the pace of the various narrative threads. The season opens with Ray’s life looking pretty normal – his father is ‘missing’, his marriage is falling apart and his brothers are doing the best they can while the FBI are looking into Sully’s death and Ray’s boss’ behaviour is becoming increasingly erratic. Everything is set for the anticipated spiral into chaos and, of course, it does. To say too much more would definitely constitute a spoiler, but suffice to say a lot happens and along the way we have some splendid new characters (it is great to see Bunk from The Wire as Micky’s … nope, I won’t say), the new FBI chief Ed Cochran (who just happens to play in a band) and a Boston Globe reporter following her own leads into Sully’s death.
Much as in Season one, Ray lurches from one catastrophe to the next, but season two is much more coherent with very strong plot lines underlying each episode and this season is, darker, deeper and far more unsettling than the first. An easy, light and fluffy show it is not but it is utterly engrossing and the twelve episodes are over far too quickly. Ray Donovan is an astonishingly clever, well written, casted and directed bit of TV which, somehow, only the Americans can do this well. Season three is currently airing in the US so hopefully we will not have to wait too long for the Blu-Ray release (which will give us an excuse to watch the first two seasons again in preparation). We’re still hoping, too, for the cross-over episode where Blueblood’s Regan family meets the Donovans – the writers have just got to find a way to get Ray and Micky to New York!
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Ray Donovan: Season Two (DVD)
Devon Bagby
(Actor),
Paula Malcomson
(Actor),
Michael Uppendahl
(Director),
Various Others
(Director)
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Genre | Drama |
Format | DVD, PAL |
Contributor | Daniel Attias, Liev Schrieber, Jon Voight, Michael Uppendahl, Various Others, Paula Malcomson, Devon Bagby See more |
Number of discs | 4 |
Runtime | 10 hours and 37 minutes |
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Product description
All 12 episodes from the second season of the American crime drama starring Liev Schreiber. Set in Los Angeles, the show follows Ray Donovan (Schreiber), a professional 'fixer' working for the successful law firm Goldman and Drexler, whose clients include the wealthiest of Hollywood's elite. In this season, Ray tries to secure his daughter Bridget (Kerris Dorsey) a place at a school she desperately wants to attend and struggles to keep his con man dad Mickey (Jon Voight) out of trouble. The episodes are: 'Yo Soy Capitan', 'Uber Ray', 'Gem and Loan', 'S U C K', 'Irish Spring', 'Viagra', 'Walk This Way', 'Sunny', 'Snowflake', 'Volcheck', 'Rodef' and 'The Captain'.
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- Package Dimensions : 18 x 13.8 x 1.5 cm; 135 Grams
- Director : Michael Uppendahl, Various Others, Daniel Attias
- Media Format : DVD, PAL
- Run time : 10 hours and 37 minutes
- Release date : 24 June 2015
- Actors : Devon Bagby, Paula Malcomson, Liev Schrieber, Jon Voight
- Dubbed: : English
- Studio : UniversalSony
- ASIN : B01DJ6426Y
- Country of origin : Australia
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: 31,726 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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Willy Eckerslike
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dark, disturbing & violent yet utterly engrossing.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 August 2015Verified Purchase
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H. Richards
3.0 out of 5 stars
Parson's nose of a series
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2016Verified Purchase
Warning - Spoilers !!! Not as good as Season 1 but still very entertaining thanks to some fantastic acting especially by Jon Voight. The plots are more than a bit haphazard and, quite frankly, most of them unbelievable. The relationship between Ray's wife and the cop she meets at the shooting range goes from initial meeting to "I love you" in an improbable time-frame and then Abby "proves" her love by trying to blackmail her lover into breaking the law. I have no idea what was going on with the motivational speaker and the stalker either. Then Mickey's heist - everything about it was laughable (and not in a good way). There is more, but I don't want to spoil any more treats.
That being said, it's easy watching - just don't take it seriously or expect it to make much sense.
That being said, it's easy watching - just don't take it seriously or expect it to make much sense.
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E. Kelly
5.0 out of 5 stars
TRULY GREAT VIEWING.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 December 2015Verified Purchase
After the events of the very good 'season one' this second season steps out with the actors, having become more familiar with the characters they are portraying, doing an even more exemplary job of bringing the stories to life. Liev Schrieber, as Ray Donovan, does a very convincing job of playing a clever, hard nosed, street wise, bruiser controlling the world he is employed to manipulate, as well as trying to hold his dysfunctional family together, whilst indulging in his own unfaithful weaknesses under a heavy cloak of lies and deception. Ray's father, Mickey Donovan ( played by Jon Voight), an old school con-man still influenced by past glories, employs absolutely no moral code in order to maintain his own delusions and low-life self interests, screwing everything up for everyone else just like in season one. This is the best I have ever seen Jon Voight act in all his career, since 'Midnight Cowboy'. If you viewed the first season and liked it, this is a must. If you haven't seen season one, get it and season two and treat yourself to one of the best television series' about the workings of the murky undercurrent that definitely must lie beneath Los Angeles supposedly respectable entrepreneurial front ever....really, ever.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
DVD does not play
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2021Verified Purchase
The DVD does not play, despite me cleaning the actual CD and also the player. Very concerned that there does not appear to be the option to return or to email the sender. I now have seasons 2 onwards - only Season 2 has been opened - and cannot watch it!!

Chrystabel Austin
5.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't wait for the second series and it didn't disappoint ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 July 2015Verified Purchase
Excellent. I loved the first series and although I found the second dipped for an episode or two in the middle it made up for it as it raced towards the conclusion and the third inevitable series! Liev Schreiber is very good and makes you like someone who in fact is not very likeable which is very good acting. All the casting and direction is excellent and then there's Jon Voight, who plays the repellent Mickey and makes you dislike him intensely. Again, very good acting.
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