S1:E1 The Bag Or The Bat
Original Air Date: Jun 30, 2013
Series premiere. Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber) is the man called in to solve the most difficult problems for LA's rich and powerful. The only problems he can't fix are those involving his damaged South Boston family. Ray's life is thrown into turmoil when his father Mickey (Jon Voight) unexpectedly gets out of prison five years early and arrives in LA, vowing to take revenge on Ray for framing him.
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"As it begins, we see a series of characters and events, which eventually weave together and intersect with Liev Schreiber's character, Ray Donovan, who is a family man with a dark Boston past."
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"The first hour set up plenty of places for the show to go, which proves Ray Donovan is clearly not a one-idea series, which Showtime is notorious for creating."
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Music from this episode
- Hooray For Hollywood
- Doris Day
- West Coast (Before I Leave)
- M1 (Feat. C. Dash)
- Let's Cut
- Midas The King
- Where They At
- Tmax
- Same Old
- Roadhawgs
- Don't Turn Your Heater Down
- Sam & Dave
- He's Out of His Mind
- King Kooba
- Motorola
- Fans of Jimmy Century
- Glitter and Gold
- Rebecca Ferguson
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