Ray Donovan Recap: The Brothers Donovan

Ray Donovan

Bob the Builder

Flavour 5 Episode x

Editor's Rating iv stars

Ray Donovan

Bob the Builder

Flavour five Episode 10

Editor's Rating 4 stars

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The subtext of this week's Ray Donovan makes information technology more accomplished than virtually previous episodes in this disappointing flavor: Everyone is trying to exist Ray, just they all let emotion and desire go far the manner. What makes Ray Donovan the best clean-up man in Hollywood? It'due south not just his willingness to do nigh annihilation for his clients, but the fact that he can remain detached while doing so.

As nosotros see in "Bob the Builder," that'due south a special skill prepare. Mickey and Daryll Donovan's endeavor at existence fixers to the stars is falling apart. Why? Because they were entranced past the bright lights of La La Land, which never did anything for Ray. Even Bridget Donovan "plays daddy" this calendar week, doing something awfully similar to what her male parent did to relieve a loved one, allowing emotion to make her pause the police. She doesn't go as far as her dad, but the emotional drive is the same — that Donovan fearlessness and need to protect.

"Bob the Architect" opens in Ray Donovan'due south apartment, now a criminal offense scene after the deaths of Natalie James and her creepy ex in what looks like a clear-cut murder-suicide. He's picturing that awful event, seeing Natalie's eyes equally the life got choked out of them. He'll have to go downtown and respond a few questions. Meanwhile, Sam Winslow and Doug Landry are negotiating. It's basically a game to these two power players: They know each other's skeletons and are seeing what they tin can go from one another. Sam calls Ray with Doug listening in the groundwork and tells him not to mention Landry's relationship with Natalie. Are they framing Ray? He doesn't bite. He tells the cops that Natalie was meaning with Doug'southward child, blowing up two professional relationships that probable would have paid him well in the future. Why? Is it merely because of what'southward morally right, or does Ray sense that Sam and Doug could target him next?

While this long night is getting longer for Ray, Bunchy is haemorrhage out in Terry'due south gild and Bridget is tracking down the only person who might be able to relieve her boyfriend'southward life. First, the Bunchy saga: He won't go to the cops, so Terry calls Ray, and the brothers Donovan have a petty adventure. They go to Ray'due south favorite veterinarian, where Ray even gives blood to Bunchy for a transfusion. There's a bully bit of character development here in that Terry knows everyone's claret type. He mentions that his mother made him larn those dizzy details when she was dying, and it dawned on me for the first time that Terry was better emotionally equipped to handle Abby's needs considering he handled his mother'south while Ray fled. After getting patched upwardly, Bunchy convinces his brothers to go get his coin back. He needs information technology not but for his family, but because of what he endured to get it. It's the best scene of the week.

And now we become to Mickey Donovan'south boner, which is really a major plot point! If y'all recall the dark before, Mickey had a little fun with some hired ladies and took a few "gas station boner pills." Now, he tin't go rid of his erection — not by masturbation, frozen veggies, or a pilus dryer. He goes to urgent care with Daryll, using a copy of Four Leaf to hide his blooper. In the waiting room, Daryll and Mickey take a talk well-nigh the script, which Daryll withal wants to turn into Mister Lucky. Daryll knows it'south going to all fall apart if Mickey keeps pressuring Jay and the studio to make the movie he wrote, instead of the film they desire to make. Although Mickey isn't distracted enough to forget to harass the doctor who'due south fixing his penis: "It's never gonna be this big again. Might likewise take reward of information technology."

As Bridget begs the doctor from Sloane-Kettering to let her boyfriend into the trial, eventually pulling a gun on her, her father and her uncles are about to accept a violent day. They get to the junkyard where Bunchy's money has been stashed. At showtime, it appears empty, but the danger of the environment is well-executed in the mode we see shots of awful, gruesome things, including a expressionless dog hanging from a piping. Ray finds the money in a barely buried metal box when the same growling lunatic who shot Bunchy gets the jump on him. A fight ensues, catastrophe in Terry saving Ray's life with a gunshot. As Ray subsequently says, it won't be enough to make upwardly for taking Abby's.

Daryll Donovan is about to realize how screwed he and Mickey are. He'south coming together with Jay White, drinking kokosnoot water and trying to assuage Jay's fretfulness, merely the cops are there and the narrative is already turning. Jay wanted to call the cops, but it was Daryll who threatened him and insisted they go rid of the body. Daryll Donovan was blinded past stardom and didn't run into the tables turning in a way that never would have happened to Ray. He tells his dad later that the cops wanted him to wear a wire, and Mickey doesn't really believe him when he says he's not. That damn script could destroy his always-tenuous relationship with his son.

In the end, Mickey and Daryll are suspicious of each other, Bridget is arrested for pulling a gun on a doctor, Bunchy comes home with his money, and Terry and Ray are all the same fighting. The episode closes with Ray on a leather couch at the boxing social club, watching a home-shopping aqueduct. Sam comes in to castigate him near ratting out Doug Landry — now, she wants Doug killed considering he might blab to the constabulary. But Ray is not a hired killer. He refuses, even though Doug could screw Ray besides. Can he really survive the season? And what almost Sam? We'll know for sure in two episodes.

• The episode ends with "Doing It Right" by the Yawpers.

• Jake Busey, e'er an interesting thespian, basically played a grunting lunatic who shoots one Donovan last week and gets shot by another this week. I don't think he even had any existent lines.

• Did anyone else find it interesting to watch this show in calorie-free of the Harvey Weinstein scandal? Particularly the Sam-Doug negotiations, in which Hollywood power players apply each other to keep criminal behavior from coming out? I wonder if the writers of Ray Donovan will directly address Weinstein adjacent season with a character who's "pulled from the headlines" Law & Order manner. It would certainly fit this show and maybe requite it some of the veracity information technology often lacks.

• But two episodes left! What do you want to run into happen to save this season? Do you miss Abby all the same? Who'southward your MVP? Thanks for sticking with me and let's hope Ray Donovan closes season five out in manner.

Ray Donovan Recap: The Brothers Donovan