"Rescue Me" Final Season Teaser
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (7)
I’m not quite sure if the news should be that “Rescue Me” is actually still on the air, or that the final season of it is coming up in a couple of weeks. I watched the first two or three seasons of it, what feels like half a lifetime ago, and then just petered out at some point when there was a TiVo glitch of some sort between seasons and I kept forgetting to fix the season pass. That’s a pretty good exercise in maintaining sanity through insanity. Randomly delete season passes occasionally. If you notice, you’ll fix it soon enough. If not, you didn’t really care enough to waste the time watching it.
In any case, “Rescue Me” always seemed to not quite know what it wanted to be as a television show. It was funny, but never funny enough to pull its own weight as a comedy. It had some serious dramatic chops at times, but it never seemed willing to have the characters evolve and so it felt like going through the same ruts over and over again. I caught random episodes over the years after I stopped watching, and there was no problem watching it because it always felt like it could have been the next episode after I stopped watching. Comedies can get away with static characters and situations, but dramas just go stale that way.
Here’s the trailer for the seventh and final season which will be airing starting July 13th.
Meh. Same thing as above. I genuinely like the characters, the writing, the acting, but this could also be the trailer for seasons one through six. Oh, and Denis Leary had this to say about the planned ending of the show:
“One second before our credits roll, there’s a twist. I think it’s going to be funny, dramatic, shocking and satisfying.”
There are only two ways that plays out. Either it’s something funny that tacks a nice laugh onto the end of the series, or it’s something that legitimately twists what has come before and just pisses everybody off. My guess is that on a meta level, Denis Leary would find the second option hilariously satisfying.
(source: CinemaBlend and NY Daily News)
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Comments
Posted by: Paultera at June 27, 2011 11:47 AM
I'll be watching and DVRing this whole season but I don't have the highest hopes. I've stuck it out this long and I want to see where it goes. The first three seasons I thought were great. The fourth and fifth had their good points but you could tell they'd run out of ideas and were just treading the same territory. The sixth season just completely stopped making sense.
Huge huge spoilers in case anyone wants to watch the fifth or six seasons (You probably don't, really)
At the end of the 5th season Uncle Teddy shot Tommy because Tommy had gotten everyone to start drinking again and his wife died in a drunken car wreck as a result. (Tommy can't really be blamed since he didn't tell anyone to drive but whatever.) It was a decent cliffhanger and had the potential to start an incredible next season.
Season six picks up with Tommy sneaking out of the hospital however long after being shot and recovering. Everyone covered for Teddy (which I can see, sort of) but also everyone placed all the blame on Tommy. I kept waiting for the whole first episode to have been a dream or something but the entire season played out like that. Everyone did despicable things all season to try and get Tommy sober, including giving him a bottle of high-end Irish Whiskey with a ton of roofies in it. They were hoping it would make him pass out quick and they could tell him a bunch of lies about what he did. Instead, he and his daughter manage to drink the whole thing and lots more and they wind up finding his daughter on a beach, still passed out after like 13 hours.
The show worked its first few seasons showing the demons of an alcoholic fireman who's been through hell and the consequences of letting those demons run free. The past couple years the show (as if mirroring the main character) has lost sight of everything that made it great in its day. Tommy seems to be the only one accountable for anything anyone does now. While that may be karmic justice, it makes absolutely no sense.
My guess is that Tommy will turn out to have been in hell since he was shot (or since 9/11 even, possibly) and that will be their reasoning behind last season's awkwardness.
End Spoilers
I'm a huge fan of Denis Leary and I think he and Peter Tolan did an amazing job with the show for awhile. It brought me to tears on multiple occasions while being able to make me laugh a few minutes later. I hope they find another project that works that well again. I know they have the talent for it.
I recommend to anyone that hasn't seen the show to pick up the first three or four seasons. They're amazing. Try to stop there though.