![]() ![]() Schreiber’s two school-age sons live in New York. The other impetus for the move was more personal. ![]() “Everybody felt that after five seasons the show needed some new energy and a reboot,” Schreiber said. (“Ray Donovan” switched coasts with another prestige Showtime show, “The Affair,” which moved to Southern California from Brooklyn last season.) Last season’s fractured timeline and death of Abby was one way to reroute. One is about trying to keep this long-running but still successful show from falling into familiar, brutal ruts. What’s a not-so-nice guy like Ray doing in a not-so-nice place like this? There are two answers. “The obstacles are kind of exciting,” Hollander said optimistically. Episodes take longer to film and they are costing more, Hollander said, although the incentives New York offers to film and television projects walk back most of that overage. “Just getting people to let you in their homes or restaurants or businesses, it takes a little talking into,” Tom Ross, the locations manager, said by phone. The Staten Island scenes are shot in Nyack and Yonkers - Yonkers plays Long Island, too. The competition for locations is so fierce and the availability so limited that “Ray Donovan” has to rely on television magic and a lot of E-ZPasses. ![]() The decibels are higher here, the weather is worse, the interiors are narrower, the paperwork is heftier and the props-rental houses - don’t even start. Moving to New York has meant competing for bodies and places, retooling scripts dreamed up in a California writers room to match major metropolitan realities. It had its crew, its spaces, its blinding sun and yawning shadows style. In Los Angeles, the “Ray Donovan” production team was a known quantity. It was a tidy illustration of a messier problem: Shooting in New York isn’t easy. When Abby died, Ray took a free dive into the East River, risking death or at least an enterococcus infection. But the fifth season drew several of the characters to New York, where Ray’s wife, Abby (Paula Malcomson), was undergoing cancer treatments. Since “Ray Donovan” had its premiere on Showtime in 2013, Schreiber, who stars as a bruised Hollywood fixer, has been a poster boy - sometimes literally - for California noir. Schreiber was filming in the light-drenched penthouse of a loft building that overlooked rusting water towers, regal high rises, the Hudson’s frayed ribbon. “I was just covered in gore,” he said.īut that day something was different. The makeup team lives for contusions.Īs he passed by, Schreiber told me that I should have seen him last week. There was blood on his hairline, bruises wreathed his nose. Ever story has its arc and if this lasted 7 seasons, I'm sure it's creatively past its use by date, though i might be sad if I ever get past Season 4.When Liev Schreiber arrived on set last month to shoot a late-season episode of “Ray Donovan,” his shirt was a blazing white, his jeans were neatly creased and his face was just a mess. Kudos to everyone on the team for a job well done. Before watching Ray, I really wasn't exposed to Lieb Shrieber, and what a marvelous performance he's had carrying the lead. So many good roles for character actors and trrific cameo performances from Roseanne Arquette and Elliott Gould to Ian McShane. I ignored the more ignoble parts of his career in one dreadful 80's-90's straight to Dvd classic after another he requently wore headbands. ![]() Steven Bauer is fabulous, so nice to see him. I have never seen Jon Voight in a better role than Micky. Balancing the general psychopathic insanity by showing the characters' humanity without going saccharine makes it fine, though it teeters on the brink at times. Everyone is odious in their own special way, even the good guys like Terry and Bunchie- its what makes it so fun to watch. Going back several times since Covid, Ive tried to binge watch, and just can't get thru without fastforwarding which is exhausting. I get that she's supposed to be a sniveling brat, but she makes every scene she's in unwatchable. She's so absolutely dreadful, I stopped watching probably at season 4. Completely spoiling the magic however is the character and the actor playing Ray's daughter. The comparison to The Sopranos is apt, great writing, soundtrack, casting and acting. I so want to love this series, as I did GoT, Weeds, and The Wire. ![]()
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