Product Description
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The complete fifth series of the popular American sitcom.
Stand-up comedian Ray Romano stars as Ray Barone, a successful
sportswriter and devoted husband to Debra (Patricia Heaton), who
must deal with his brother (Brad Garrett) and his parents, Frank
and Marie (Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts), who happen to live
across the street. Frank and Marie love to meddle with his life
while his older brother Robert sometimes resents his success.
Nevertheless, Ray manages to keep a bright outlook and a sense of
humour as he balances his family and work life. Episodes
comprise: 'Italy (Part 1)', 'Italy (Part 2)', 'The Wallpaper',
'Meant to Be', 'Pet Cemetary', 'The Author', 'The Walk to the
Door', 'Young Girl', 'Fighting In-Laws', 'The Sneeze', 'Christmas
Present', 'What Good Are You?', 'Super ', 'Ray's Journal',
'Silent Partners', 'Fairies', 'Stefania Arrives', 'Humm Vac',
'The Canister', 'Net Worth', 'Let's Fix Robert', 'Say Uncle',
'Separation', 'Frank Paints the House' and 'Ally's Birth'.
From .co.uk
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The beloved sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond would be as brutal as
a Strindberg drama if it didn't make familial bitterness so
genuinely funny. Stand-up comedian Ray Romano (Ice Age) plays Ray
Barone, a sportswriter married to Debra (the sharp and sexy
Patricia Heaton) who has the misfortune to live just across the
street from his invasive, bickering parents Frank and Marie
(Peter Boyle, Young Frankenstein, and Doris Roberts, Remington
Steele). Rounding out the cast is Ray's neglected older brother
Robert (Brad Garrett, Gleason), whose every accomplishment has
been ignored because his parents prefer to dote on the younger,
cuter Ray. Robert, whose gloomy mug and huge size makes him loom
over Ray like some malevolent alter-ego, is actually more honest
and sensitive to the needs of others than is Ray, who's both
self-centered and too eager to please--an impossible balance that
Romano spins to great comic effect.
The fifth season presents the show at the peak of its strength.
The season opener, a two-part story about a trip to Italy,
degenerates into schmaltz, but immediately afterward Everyone
Loves Raymond regains its bearings and launches into series of
deftly played and skillfully written domestic skirmishes between
husband and wife or parent and child. Episodes range from an
explosive fight over wallpaper (a fan favorite) to anxiety over
Ray's twin sons playing fairies in a school performance to the
separation of Debra's seemingly perfect parents (Katherine
Helmond, Brazil, and Robert Culp, I ). It's hard to imagine
that any other show could get away with such a morbid view of
marriage. In one episode, Ray and Debra panic when they realize
they're running out of things to talk about; but after they
witness Ray's parents having a meal without speaking a single
word (a hypnotic pas de deux between Boyle and Roberts), Debra
persuades herself that being quiet with each other is true
intimacy...but the show never tells you whether she's discovered
marital zen or if she's just rationalizing the inevitable
emotional heat-death of a life-long commitment. Robert's romantic
troubles recur throughout the season, culminating in the
nightmare of having his ex-girlfriends meet to hash out
everything that's wrong with him. Just a slight adjustment in
tone would make Everyone Loves Raymond a bleak indictment of how
people can be cruelest to those closest to them; instead, it's a
cunningly comic celebration of how people can be cruelest to
those closest to them. --Bret Fetzer
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Synopsis
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The complete fifth season of HBO's award winning comedy
Everybody Loves Raymond features episodes including The
Wallpaper, Meant to Be, Se paration, and Ally's
Birth.|EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND SEASON 5
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