"Ray Donovan" is a Showtime drama series that has run for the last 4 years. All four seasons are available on Amazon Instant Video.
From Wikipedia: "The drama is set in Los Angeles, California, where Irish-American Ray Donovan (Liev Schreiber), originally from South Boston, works for the powerful law firm Goldman & Drexler, representing the rich and famous. Donovan is a "Fixer": a person who arranges bribes, payoffs, threats, etc., to ensure the outcome desired by the client. Good at his job, and no common hood, Ray is normally a devoted family man as well. He experiences his own problems when his menacing father, Mickey Donovan (Jon Voight), is unexpectedly released from prison, and the FBI attempts to bring down Ray and his associates." End Wikipedia
Background: On my return flight from Paris yesterday, my hangover from clubbing too late (only 2 hours of sleep and almost missed my flight) meant I couldn't do much of anything other than watch TV. I watched the first 6 episodes of season 3 of Ray Donovan. Pre-Red-Pill, I had watched some episodes in season 1. With my new red pill goggles, this series just blew me away with how red pill it is to the core.
Unlike most drama series today, the show is extremely alpha-male-centric, and almost all the action is driven by males. The top two characters, Ray and his father Mickey are both strong alpha males, Ray representing good, Mickey representing evil. The series is set in a fight club. The story centers on Ray Donovan, his father and two brothers. Ray's brothers are not alpha but they have good reasons for that. Their sister died at age 18 and the death haunts the family, their relationships, current lives, everything. Every tenet of the Red Pill (woman are children, hypergamy, and especially that women prefer alpha males) is highlighted again and again in "Ray Donovan".
In the show, the women are submissive but not weak, especially Ray's wife. They say fuck a lot. Ray's lesbian female assistant Lena follows his orders unconditionally, but when the married women she is sleeping with betrays her, Lena punches the women in the face and gets arrested. When Ray's wife starts getting bullshit blue pill advice from SJW-types and the feminine social matrix, she makes a half-hearted attempt to get Ray to open up about his emotions and what he is feeling, and he just walks away. She secretly loves this; later in the same episode she swoons into his arms right after yet another classic Ray alpha move.
Ray Donovan is a poster child for male dominance (read Ironwood's blog post on male dominance and then watch a Ray Donovan episode, you will see what I mean). He's a tall, well-muscled guy of very few, quietly expressed words, often answering questions with one or two words, or no words, just a facial expression. He almost never raises his voice, and he is most dominant when he drops his voice to a whisper. His orders to assistants are usually no more than three to five words, and he expects and receives unconditional obedience because his strong alpha credentials have created trust and stability. He stands straight and moves slowly and deliberately. Ray is the center of gravity for everyone in the show (even his enemies) for this very reason. When some beta game show host jumps in his face, flailing his arms and whining about some studio order, Ray slaps him in the face... twice. The game show host gets the message. After the second slap, the camera goes to the female studio exec who needed Ray's help with the host, and her eyes show how turned on she is by Ray's alpha show of dominance. He is, mostly, very confident and can take care of business in any situation, but struggles mightily, quietly, and powerfully with the contradictions of his family life and history that he can't change, and tries to protect his wife and family (including his brothers) from suffering his sister's fate (suicide at a young age). Does he do this by talking with a counselor and crying his eyes out? Fuck no! He drinks heavily and sleeps with women intoxicated by his alpha-ness (he never chases women, they chase him, and his attitude is clearly DGAF either way).
The other male leads are very alpha as well. Weak males are weak for a good reason, due to trauma and loss at a young age or the early onset of some disease.
Some examples of Red Pill dialogue in "Ray Donovan"
Gangster father to son sodomized by a priest who can't get over it: "Stop being a cry baby. Be a man. Deal with it. DEAL WITH IT!"
When Ray's wife Abby cheats, he leaves for months and keeps her guessing about whether he wants a divorce or will come back to her (not because he is playing games, but because he doesn't know himself). When she finds out he has cheated and confronts him, he doesn't say a word and just walks away.
When Ray's brother Terry discovers his new girlfriend is married, he confronts her. She tells him that she doesn't love her husband anymore. Terry calls bullshit on that and breaks up with her, stating that he won't share her (Terry is pretty blue pill so this is definite progress for him). After Terry learns his girlfriend's husband punched her, he beats up the husband; after the beating he apologizes to the husband for sleeping with his wife and states he didn't know she was married.
Ray to his wife: "Come on, let's make another baby."
I could go on and on. Watch the show, enjoy it, deepen your Red Pill understanding and learn some cool alpha moves from all the bad-ass alpha characters in "Ray Donovan"
One final note: after you watch a few episodes, ask yourself if you think the writer was a woman or a man. The title to my post will answer that question for you.
summersss 8y ago
I only watched the first season. Surprised this show gets away with it. Without getting slammed in the media.
OPWills 8y ago
Your observations are all fine and well, and I don't dispute the general claim: that women want alpha males, and this is how alpha males, generally, behave.
But you do realize this is Hollywood/showbiz right? It's absurd to condemn Hollywood for inculcating "blue pill" behavior subliminally (via rom-coms and the like) and then praise it when it presents the opposite caricature.
Try giving three-words orders all the time to subordinates in your workplace and we'll see how well that works.
EvolvedA 8y ago
You are 100 % right. This is nothing but porn for blue pill men. Watching others living the life they would like to live. And distracting them from doing so.
RawgerOThornhill 8y ago
In my experience, if you hire the right people and tell/sell them the mission/vision, you barely have to talk to them at all. I usually go 4-5 weeks without even talking to my boss. In "Ray Donovan", Ray's associates are very, very good at what they do.
WRT blue-pill versus red-pill in drama: IMO caricaturing red-pill helps people understand and internalize the truth, caricaturing blue-pill deceives men and women.
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[deleted] 8y ago
3 word orders are fine if you have their respect and you respect them. If you do that when they come to you with a legitimate issue, unless the solution is three words, then you are a shit.
OPWills 8y ago
Yeah I suppose this was my point.
RawgerOThornhill 8y ago
Agreed. When it's a complex issue or an employee just needs to be heard and understand, then a conversation is warranted.
NoodlesTheClown 8y ago
Kill your TV. It is a waste of your time, and ours.
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I watched this show from the beginning. Caught first episode on accident on cable, got stuck on it. First of all Liev isn't in near the same shape he was when he played Sabertooth on that X-Men movie, he's actually skinny arms and flat-chested in the show. But he shows up with confidence, beats people as needed, and in general handles stuff in an RP way. All his interactions with people, whether he's helping them or shaking them down, screams RP method. That and bits of craziness, the part where he got the cop drunk then drove the cop car into a wall was kinda insane. Smart, but insane. Even though Hollywood is kinda re-affirming TRP is true by making this character do not take anything on fictional TV shows as an example for your life. There are fucked up bits.
First of all being a bagman is not a cushy job where you can afford to live the high-life in a mansion and come home safely most nights. Walking into a bar in Mexico with 6+ people wanting to fight you armed only with a baseball bat, that's a quick way to get shot most of the time but storyline made all those people unarmed apparently. 6 people can hold 1 guy down easily so do not attempt those odds without some kind of leverage. Anyway point is Ray is always on the edge in situations that are extreme in real life. Great show, great RP character, just don't take it to heart because this is still a work of Hollywood.
pillchangedmylife 8y ago
"When Ray's wife Abby cheats " - if he comes back his not Alpha
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MotiMorphosys 8y ago
This show primed me for the red pill. I remember constantly thinking "why in the world does his wife not just leave his ass? It's not like he's ever going to be what women say they want in a husband? She knows he's Fucking other younger prettier girls!"
Its because he's good at what he does. He has the best frame I've ever seen. He can get people to do shit. Everyone respects him because his thoughts are congruent with his actions.
The show is an excellent lesson in frame.
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Ray Donovan is my post-TRP savior, a man I could stand behind, unlike Frank Underwood. I know, it's fiction! Just trim the fat and find some actual good shows (one episode to test the waters won't hurt you). I just knew he'd never let me down throughout the show. He rarely raises his voice, and when he yells it's for good reasons. Lastly, it gives Liev Schreiber some much-needed exposure, despite being a liberal hippie-spawn.
_penseroso_ 8y ago
I enjoy RD as well, he's alpha as fuck and I always want to see how he's going to deal with whatever the fucked up situation of the day is.
To your point, i think the only reason that show is allowed on the air in our feminized culture is because it's written by a woman.
shassamyak 8y ago
I dont remember the season or the episode but I am sure that when Ray confesses that he was raped and abused by the priest insread of supporting him through his ordeal his wife chose to go fuck a police officer. She did not offer him her time or emotional support. She just wanted him to get over it and focus on her loneliness and her emotions. This clearly shows what and how women thinks. Their prime focus is on themselves.
[deleted] 8y ago
A guy who cheats on his wife isn't exactly some poster child for being an alpha male.
I fucking despise cheaters!
RawgerOThornhill 8y ago
I agree, but sometimes life's complicated.
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