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| | DVD Verdict Review - Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Fifth Season |
 | | The cast of Everybody Loves Raymond includes Ray Romano (Raymond Barone), Patricia Heaton (Ray's wife, Debra), Brad Garrett (Ray's older brother, Robert), Peter Boyle (Ray's father, Frank), and Doris Roberts (Ray's mother, Marie), along with occasional appearances of Monica Horan (Robert's ex-fiancée, Amy). |
 | | By the fifth season, the show's actors have honed their ensemble skills to near perfection, which allows the series to attain a seeming effortlessness and grace that in fact derives from a rare mix of hard work, talent, and clear directorial vision. |
 | | Of course that's a huge over-simplification, but quite a number of the Everybody Loves Raymond episodes, stripped of their comic overtones, would be as incisive and devastating as a short story from James Joyce's Dubliners (some episodes even end with their own secular epiphanies). |
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