Sep 2 2009
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Rescue Me - Season 5
Aug 26 2009
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When this season of Rescue Me began, I talked about how the central message of the show has always been about how…
Aug 18 2009
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Aug 11 2009
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There are few TV tropes I hate more than the one where there’s a wedding and the characters involved suddenly…
Aug 4 2009
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After dithering around for a handful of episodes, Rescue Me seems to be getting back on track with “Carrot,” which…
Jul 28 2009
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“Lesbos” feels more episodic than usual for an episode of Rescue Me. All three of the storylines are pretty good,…
Jul 21 2009
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“Clean” is pretty much a bottle show. A bottle show, a grand tradition in the history of television, is an episode…
Jul 14 2009
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There’s a pretty interesting idea at the center of “Initiation,” one that helps the episode's numerous vignettes…
Jul 7 2009
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Rescue Me will frequently follow up a dark, heavy hour (as last week’s exemplary “Torch” was) with a lightly…
Jul 1 2009
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“Torch” is one of the best hours of Rescue Me ever and one of the better hours of TV drama I’ve seen in a while.…
Jun 23 2009
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“Disease” perks up from the last few Rescue Mes, which have been good but haven’t quite hit the highs earlier…
Jun 16 2009
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There’s a moment almost at the end of “Mickey” that I suspect is going to drive hardcore Rescue Me fans a little…
Jun 9 2009
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These last couple of weeks, Rescue Me has been a fairly dark ride, skewing far more toward the first word in the…
Jun 2 2009
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If Rescue Me only really works as a series when Tommy Gavin is walking the extremely thin line between insanity and…
May 26 2009
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The episode of a TV show structured like a stage play is a tradition as old as the medium itself, playing up the…
May 19 2009
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In the years since Rescue Me premiered, Tommy Gavin's relationship with his wife, Janet, has been one of the show's…
May 12 2009
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There's a scene midway through "Perspective" where Lou berates Tommy for the way he seems completely unable to grasp…
May 5 2009
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For the longest time, I haven’t been terribly sure why the writers of Rescue Me kept Callie Thorne around as Sheila.…
Apr 28 2009
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Jimmy Keefe is the ghost that animates Rescue Me, a show uniquely obsessed with ghosts, with the way we force…
Apr 21 2009
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“Wine” indulges in Rescue Me’s affection for cheap comedy disconnected from everything else going on in the episode,…