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Rescue Me back for a 5th season

Started by Mike Olbinski · 10 months ago

As you faithful readers of this blog may know, Rescue Me on FX is one of my favorite shows. It’s gritty, hard-core and hilarious. It stars Denis Leary who was up for a second Emmy this past year for his role as Tommy Gavin.
It’s definitely a disturbing show at times tha ... Continue reading »

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  • D.L. White

    1 year ago

    I watched all of the first season of "Rescue Me" and loved it. I watched about halfway thru the second season and then lost interest. Mostly because it turned into a soap opera (i.e. who's sleeping with who) and they got away from the firefighting stuff, and the ghosts of the fire victims that would follow Tommy around. That was the stuff I found interesting - the challenges of being a reluctant "hero", a tortured firefighter, etc. They had some interesting tortured, complex characters. It was a shame they got ridiculous with their plot lines. Have they returned back to some of that stuff?
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  • Mike

    1 year ago

    Yeah, they did. I think I felt the same way that season, but I stuck it out and it got really, really good.

    The whole sleeping around thing...I think it still occurs, but I've never thought about it like that. There is a lot of stuff involving their son, his brother, alcoholism, etc.

    The third season was fantastic and the fourth pretty good too.

    I never thought of it like a soap opera really...but I guess it's like that...

    A funny scene occurs in season 4 when Tommy and his wife sit down with a shrink to talk about their problems...and once they are done, he laughs and thinks he's part of some practical joke.

    It was a great scene, and does kind of show that they have a LOT of stuff happen to them :)
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