Ray Donovan - Season 4 !!HOT!!

"Fish and Bird" was an exciting installment of this Showtime drama. The quality has really been all over the place this season, but hopefully this installment is the first of many great episodes to come.

Ray Donovan - Season 4

Emmy nominee Lisa Bonet will guest star in a season-long arc on the fourth season of the hit Showtime drama series Ray Donovan. Bonet will play Marisol, a dangerously unstable woman with a damaging secret. Ray Donovan is currently in production in Los Angeles, and will return to Showtime later this year on-air, on demand and over the internet.

The previous season saw Katie Holmes portraying the role of Paige Finney. The character was seen needing brace due to her migraines. She was a representation of someone who looked like she had everything all together, yet is still flawed. Intrigued by the complex character, fans are hoping that the actress will be back to reprise her role for the upcoming season.

The executive producer also shared some interesting hints for the upcoming play. The previous season saw Mickey in an unfortunate situation that led fans to question the character's fate. However, Hollander explained that he will be playing a big part in the upcoming season.

Although there has yet to be any confirmation regarding its release date, there are already predictions on when the series will return. The other seasons have been released during the first or second week of July, with an exception to one that was released on June 30. Therefore, "Ray Donovan" season 4 is slated for release sometime this July.

"Ray has to push the reset button a little bit," explained Schreiber. "I think at the end of last season, some very big questions were asked. He was asking himself some very big questions about faith, and about sobriety, and his own personal spirituality."

At the end of Season Three of Ray Donovan, following a shootout with Russian mobsters that left our antihero (played by Liev Schreiber) wounded and his father, Mickey (Jon Voight), on the run, Ray received absolution for his past sins from a Catholic priest who had taken an interest in him in a powerful season finale. Now it's time for Season Four to get underway, and Ray's going to walk the straight and narrow now, right? Think again.

Speaking of Abby, this is a particularly rough season for her, as she learns she has breast cancer, which - at first, as least - she is uninterested in getting treatment for. Abby isn't the only Donovan wife dealing with problems in these episodes, though. Ray's brother, Bunchy (Dash Mihok), is having all kinds of issues with his new bride, Teresa (Alyssa Diaz), who seems to want nothing to do with their newly born daughter after giving birth to her.

The highlight of this season - and probably every season - of Ray Donovan is watching the latest scam that Mickey Donovan has gotten himself into. Having had to flee Los Angeles, Mickey finds himself working at a casino in Primm, Nevada, using an alias (since he's wanted by the law). Not only has he taken up with the casino's lounge singer (played by Paula Jai Walker), but he's got a plan to steal a gold horseshoe the casino has on display that holds $1 million dollars inside. Anyone familiar with this series already can guess that Mickey's heist does not go as planned.

I can't say that this is the best season of Ray Donovan...I personally liked the third season a little more that this one, I think. However, that's intended as a compliment as all four seasons of this Showtime series have been quite entertaining. When the show started back in 2013, it felt like it was trying to be a West Coast version of The Sopranos; but it didn't take long for the series to establish its own identity, and it's been solid ever since. While the lack of a Blu-ray release still makes streaming the best option to watch these episodes (since they can be viewed in HD that way), those without a Showtime subscription will want to consider picking up this DVD release.

Season Four of Ray Donovan arrives on DVD in a clear case, with the four dual-layer discs held on a pair of plastic hubs inside. The only insert is an advertisement for Showtime's streaming options. The reverse side of the case's slick (seen from inside the case) has a list of all the episodes from Season Four, listed according to what disc they appear on and with a short synopsis of each. Also listed are the bonus materials according to which disc they appear on. The DVD case slides inside a cardboard slipcase featuring the same artwork that is on the slick. There are no front-loaded trailers on any of the DVDs, and the main menu features a still photo of Ray on the left, with a montage of footage from the season in the upper right and menu selections on the lower right.

Each episode of Ray Donovan is shot digitally on Arri Alexa cameras and presented here in the 1.78:1 aspect ratio using an MPEG-2 codec. For whatever reason, Showtime has decided not to give Ray Donovan a Blu-ray release (which the first three seasons all got), leaving this DVD set the only option for those who don't subscribe to Showtime. But as DVD transfers go, this one is pretty good. The overall image of the show leans towards browns and yellows (particularly in indoor shots), although that changes depending on locations (the art gallery seen in this season, for example, is bathed in whites). While details aren't what you'd see in a 1080p image, they're pretty good for standard def, and I didn't note too many glaring problems - a touch of aliasing and jittering of the image here and there - but nothing unexpected, and certainly nothing that was so obvious it distracted from my enjoyment. The Audio

Ray Donovan's fourth season may not mark the apex of the series in terms of quality, but it continues to be entertaining "appointment" television. To say that Season Four provides "more of the same" isn't an insult - it's an acknowledgement that this is one of the few series on television that has managed to keep my attention over the course of its run. Those who have followed the series up until this point won't be disappointed by what unfolds in Season Four. Recommended. 041b061a72