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Rescue Me: TV Series.

Trekker4747

Trekker4747

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I've always been a bit of a fan of Denis Leary's and always wanted to check this show out but never got around to it. Well, after getting Netflix on my PS3 this week I've decided to check it out. I'm about half-way through Season 1 right now and... I dunno.

It's okay, Leary is good a lot of the scenes are good but sometimes I think this show is talking to me out of the side of it's mouth. Like it's trying to be an asshole yet at the same time make me "care" about these characters because they're heroes and firefighters and shit. It's got some good stuff in it and I actually kind of like Tommy being "haunted" by the people he failed to save (reminds me a bit of "Bringing out the Dead")

Fun show but I'm not settled on whether I like it enough to watch all the way through it yet.
 
I haven't seen most of the first couple years, but I've really liked the last 2 or 3 seasons.
 
It was a good show, I liked the character writing a lot and the comedy/drama combo generally worked for me. But after the third season I started to feel like it was going in circles. Plus some characters that I really liked left the show, and some that I didn't like got more prominent. I got to the point I almost had to fast-forward through Sheila scenes.

--Justin
 
Keep watching, Trekker, it gets better. Season 6 was very disappointing, but by that point, you'll be emotionally invested and keep watching.

I think season 6 is past the statute of limitations, but I'll spoiler code some stuff out of courtesy.

The season 5 cliffhanger was awesome. I could not wait for season six! When it finally came, instead of picking up with Tommy still lying in a pool of blood, he's on the ambulance already. What? What happened? How did the rest of them get the gun away from Teddy? How is Teddy not in jail? What the fuck? It was almost like the season 5 ending didn't happen. I don't even remember what happened the rest of the season it was so uninteresting, aside from Damien getting hurt and becoming brain damaged. And then the end of the season finale, where Damien becomes lucid and accuses Tommy of causing his injury. Was that supposed to be a cliffhanger? Big deal, Tommy gained the power to hallucinate people that are still alive in addition to the dead. Not much mystery there. Well, maybe Damien died just then so what's going on isn't 100% clear, but who gives a shit?
I didn't find Season 6 so disappointing that I'm not going to watch Season 7, but I really hope I'm not disappointed again.
 
J.T.B. said:
It was a good show, I liked the character writing a lot and the comedy/drama combo generally worked for me. But after the third season I started to feel like it was going in circles.
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It was even earlier for me. The first season was exhilaratingly crazy, but even then it rapidly became clear that the show existed in some weird-ass dream world that looked and sounded like real life, but where even outrageous actions had no consequences whatsoever. I don't too much mind shows like Boston Legal dropping characters and plot threads left and right because the lawsuits rather than the characters power the episodes. But since fires aren't as inherently multifaceted as court cases, Rescue Me has to tether its plot to its characters, and its characters are just too out there to strike a workable balance.

My gut advice is, whenever you tire of it, let it go, because the rest is more of the exact same, but with ever-decreasing novelty. It's just too bad they didn't cap it at one or two well-planned seasons where they could keep things under some semblance of control.
 
I'm sticking with it until the end but, yeah, it's gone on too long. They keep going back to the same well in an effort to stretch the series out. And the bit where Leary's character is somehow irresistable to every hot woman that comes on the show is beyond tiresome.

That being said, the supporting cast is still great, especially Lou, and the second half of the last season was a big improvement over the previous one.
 
I'm a couple episodes into S2 right now and still quite enjoy the show but it certainly has its pitfalls and problems but I still enjoy it and Leary is almost always entertaining and actually a half-way decent actor.
 
In my opinion it declines beginning with season three and never really recovers. Of course, it's entirely possible that it's been about the same in quality and content and it just took a couple of seasons before I tired of it.

It does occasionally offer a wonderfully outrageous moment that almost makes it worth it, but much of the rest of the time it feels like we're watching Denis Leary's fantasy version of being a firefighter. The number of gorgeous woman who pile themselves upon his asshole of a character probably annoy everyone after a while--except for Leary, of course.
 
About half-way through S2 and am still mostly liking the series. I may actually pick this up on DVD.

Love the woman playing Tommy's vision of Mary Magdalene. :drool:
 
Trekker4747 said:
I've always been a bit of a fan of Denis Leary's and always wanted to check this show out but never got around to it. Well, after getting Netflix on my PS3 this week I've decided to check it out. I'm about half-way through Season 1 right now and... I dunno.

It's okay, Leary is good a lot of the scenes are good but sometimes I think this show is talking to me out of the side of it's mouth. Like it's trying to be an asshole yet at the same time make me "care" about these characters because they're heroes and firefighters and shit. It's got some good stuff in it and I actually kind of like Tommy being "haunted" by the people he failed to save (reminds me a bit of "Bringing out the Dead")

Fun show but I'm not settled on whether I like it enough to watch all the way through it yet.
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I really like this show. Did not know that it still came on.
 
When Rescue Me first came out, I thought it was the best thing on TV. I lost interest part way through the fourth season and haven't watched since.

I have S1-4 on DVD. They collect dust. I could have picked up S5 for less than $20, brand new, and passed.
 
Okay, I've been watching Season 3 off-and-on as other stuff is going on so I'm not going through at as fast as I did the other two seasons. Still an enjoyable show, I loved the scene with Tommy talking to his ex-wife, his sister-in law, his sister and his latest girlfriend (the teacher his nephew was doing played by Apirl O'Neill) was hilarious because of Tommy's reaction of the various "crazy bitches" that were calling him. (his words, not mine.)

But, also in this same episode....

Tommy basically rapes his wife and she was totally cool with it, right?

:wtf:
 
I was watching the series on Netflix for a while there but lost sight of it when the PSN started having issues making my Netflix almost impossible to use, I was at around the episode where Leary's wife "rapes" him as pay back for raping her.

It's a pretty good series and I need to pick it up again and finish watching it, or I may just get the DVDs when the series set comes out or something.
 
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