Steven Bauer plays Avi, Ray’s inexplicably Russian assistant.We see the actor talking to Ray’s son later. Ray helps an athlete deal with a dead hooker (she overdosed) and an actor deal with an image-destroying decision to pick up a transvestite prostitute.Ray also named his daughter Bridget and he just now tells her about how her aunt died. Ray has a soft spot for broken/troubled women. Oh, and Ray also had a sister named Bridget, who jumped off of a roof when she was high on drugs and died.Also, Ray comes to find out that he has a half-black half-brother (is that redundant? (is that racist?)) named Darryl (Pooch Hall).Ray’s other brother Terry has Parkinson’s disease, which he developed from boxing.As a result of this abuse, Bunchy has emotional problems, alcohol problems and money problems (he just got a $1.4 million settlement, which makes him feel awful).Said priest, we come to find, is responsible for molesting Ray’s younger brother Bunchy when he was a kid.His first order of business? Kill a priest. In the opening sequence, Mickey is released from prison.I get that the first episode of a show needs to introduce us to this world and these characters, but my goodness, is there a lot of stuff here! Rather than give an in depth recap, I’m just going to list everything good, bad, cliché or otherwise that “The Bag or the Bat” throws at us and marvel at how coherent and interesting it remains. That’s the reason for this post, the fact that this pilot is so jam-packed with character traits, flaws and reveals as well as supporting cast members and potential plot threads.
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The cast is pretty great all around and the story, apart from the return of Mickey (who has been in prison) seems sort of unfocused and could zip off in any number of interesting or weird directions, or it could just sputter and stagnate. I liked Ray Donovan and I’m interested to see exactly where they go with it. Ray is good at his job and makes a pretty nice living, but he has other family problems involving his brothers Terry and Bunchy (Eddie Marsan and Dash Mihok) and most importantly his dad Mickey (the hammy Jon Voight). Ray has relocated to the west coast from South Boston and lives with his wife Abby ( Deadwood‘s Paula Malcolmson) and the cable-requisite older daughter and younger son (see also: Mad Men, Homeland, Dexter, The Sopranos, The Americans). In brief, Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber) is a “fixer” (think Harvey Keitel’s Winston Wolf) in Hollywood who helps the rich and famous with certain problems, including stalkers, transvestite prostitutes, dead hookers, cheating mistresses and whatever else his clients might need. That’s even more notable considering this episode was available to stream online a week before it actually aired.
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I’ve read very little critical response, but the show set a Showtime ratings record for a new series premiere (topping Homeland). It’s a quality episode directed by cable mainstay Allen Coulter written by Biderman. I just finished the pilot episode for Showtime’s new series Ray Donovan created by Ann Biderman (who created Southland and won an Emmy for NYPD Blue).
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