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It would have been grand for Frank to holler at them, “Nobody cares who runs the damn clubs anymore!” but no, the cold-blooded Mexican gangsters were back, and they were mad that Frank had set their new drug laundering businesses alight. When Frank got kidnapped on his way to escape, I literally had to hit pause on my DVR to remember exactly who this collection of gangsters was. At least I knew the name of the character who shot Ray to death-Lieutenant Burris, played by James Frain. Still, Ray’s goodbye made more sense than Frank’s.
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The final montage included a random cut to his dad (played by Fred Ward) and ex-wife (Abigail Spencer), two great actors the show hired and immediately forgot to use, as if to remind us there could have been a great arc for Ray buried somewhere. (No way that kid’s gonna grow up with any issues, no sir.) In the end, it felt like he made the decision that it simply wasn’t possible for him to be happy-which is why his pat on the head for Ani, telling her to get out of town and get away from him, felt especially condescending. What to make of Ray’s blaze of glory? There were some hilariously tragic notes-his phone’s inability to upload its goodbye message to his son, and that previous scene where little Chad Velcoro played Dungeons & Dragons while carrying his father’s badge encased in Lucite as some horrendous lucky totem.