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Vault 7 Fallout and the Ray Donovan Deep Dive Begins
from Ray Kump Donovan · #35
Audio-only archive episode — no video to seek.
7 minTim riffs on the CIA's hacking capabilities revealed in Vault 7 and how blase everyone is about it, then launches into an extended dissection of Ray Donovan's plot, characters, and absurdity, comparing it to Michael Clayton and other prestige shows.
- 10:48CIA software can penetrate systems and frame another country by leaving their fingerprints on the hack.
- 10:59Leaking things we already know proves them; leaking new shit is actually valuable.
- 11:18They've been looking into hijacking cars—we know all this, but mainstream media ignores it.
- 11:50Tim wonders what else Vault 7 contains, speculating they could clone DNA into bizarre forms.
- 12:13Tim and Ray disagree about Ray Donovan: Ray thinks it's garbage, Tim is defending it.
- 12:35The premise feels like a studio pitch: four Boston brothers all abused by priests, one becomes an LA fixer with no explained background.
- 13:03Liev Schreiber's acting style—low-key and nebbish—works for a while then becomes repetitive.
- 13:44Tim's Long Island DJ boss loved Ray Donovan and insisted it gets better by season four.
- 14:31The show's plot and acting are bad but it works as background viewing between better series.
- 16:14Ray Donovan is anti-Semitic: the protagonist serves an evil Jewish billionaire named Ezra Goldman.
- 16:46Elliot Gould plays Ezra Goldman and does great character work despite the stereotype.
- 17:10Ray sleeps with a reporter to prevent her from exposing the FBI corruption story he's part of.
Ray DonovanThe AmericansOliver PlattElliot GouldLiev SchreiberThe West WingMichael Hays