Rescue Me

By Jonathan Toomey As fans, we've really been rooting for a horrible thing if you think about it. The fact that we've all been waiting for Tommy to start full-blown drinking again is pretty twisted and now that it's been going on for a few episodes, we're starting to see the Tommy we remember - both the good and ba...

By Jonathan Toomey We've all been raving about Rescue Me's creative resurgence this season. Every episode thus far has been classic stuff - a streak of good writing and acting that we haven't seen since the first season. However, up until last week's brilliant homage to The Iceman Cometh, there hadn't been a t...

 CA With Rescue Me plowing through it's massive 22 episode fifth season, it's a little weird to think that we'll be tuning into Denis Leary's FDNY hijnks until September 8th - especially since we're used to having the show be over after about three months. ...

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By Jonathan Toomey This is the episode we're all been waiting for. After Tommy had a drink with Genevieve two weeks ago, it was only a matter of time before this happened - fortunately, we didn't have to wait for it. Permalink | Email this | | Comments

By Jonathan Toomey As much as I've enjoyed the renewed focus on 9/11 that Rescue Me has delved into this season, you have to admit that it has taken away from the other big part of this show: the Gavin family. Tommy's relatives have always been a huge part of what makes this show so great, especially his immediate...

By Jonathan Toomey You know what else is hall of fame shit? This episode of Rescue Me. It took 57 episodes to get to this point, but 9/11 has finally become the first, last, and only focus of the show. Sure, there are still some sub-plots weaved in and out of the main narrative, but it all comes back to 9/11. It's funny...

S05E05) "I think that sometimes Tommy wishes that Jimmy had lived and that he had died in Jimmy's place... and so do I." - Sheila A few months back, when I first started getting ready for Rescue Me's new season, I remember seeing this picture before I ... Rescue Me: Oh, Sheila New York Magazine

 CA finale of Better Off Ted and new episodes of Dancing with the Stars and Cupid. CBS has a new NCIS at 8, then new episodes of The Mentalist and Without A Trace. NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser, followed by a new Law and Order: SVU. ...

By Jonathan Toomey To kick off May, Hulu just released the fourth ad in the campaign and Rescue Me fans are gonna be happy with this one. It features Denis Leary talking faster than he did on his No Cure for Cancer album, so try and keep up with him. Enjoy! Permalink | Email this | | Comments

By Jonathan Toomey Just like Dr. Psychodramaturge telling Sheila that half of Damien's desire to be a firefighter is based on her objection, you knew that when Lou told Tommy not to look at the 9/11 footage he would anyway. Forbidden = fun. Of course, having Genevieve whisper lord knows what into Tommy's ear did...

By Jonathan Toomey Even though after two stellar episodes this season is shaping up to be possibly Rescue Me's best yet, I'm going to pick on this episode regardless. Not the whole hour, but a fairly decent chunk, mainly because it relates back to almost all of what was bad about season four. In some ways, it almo...

 CA - Bob Sassone At 8, ABC has two new episodes of According To Jim, then new episodes of Dancing with the Stars and The Unusuals. NBC has a new, two-hour Biggest Loser at 8. FOX has new episodes of American Idol and Fringe. The CW has a new Reaper at 8, followed by a ...

By Jonathan Toomey Filed under: OpEd, Rescue Me, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free S05E02) "People hear juicy gossip, they're gonna spread it around. This is a firehouse. Take away the rig, the gear, and testosterone, it's nothing but a goddamn sorority in here!" - Needles

By Jonathan Toomey Rescue Me itself is sort of in the same boat. After a lackluster and critically panned fourth season, the Denis Leary FDNY drama screwed up. Thanks in part to the writer's strike, an extended hiatus has given most fans time to forget and I, for one, have forgiven. Rescue Me is finally back after...

 CA PBS has a new Nova at 8, then a new Frontline. At 9, TNT has two new episodes of Trust Me. There's a new Food Detectives on Food Network at 9. BBC America has a new Last Restaurant Standing at 9. At 10, FX has the season premiere of Rescue Me. ...

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By Jonathan Toomey Rescue Me returns to FX this coming Tuesday, April 7th at 10PM ET, and after screening the first nine episodes of the fifth season's 22, trust me when I say that all the bad reviews associated with the mediocrity of season four can be forgotten. Tommy Gavin is back and better than ever.Continu...

By Kona Gallagher After several high-profile movie roles in films such as Menace II Society, Dead Presidents, and Crash, Larenz Tate headed to New York City for a regular gig on the FX drama, Rescue Me. Tate plays "Black Sean," the newest probie forced to contend with Tommy Gavin and the rest of the motley cre...

 CA Nip/Tuck only has 19 episode left in the series' run and I've read conflicting reports that it could be one final season or a nine ep sixth season and a ten ep final seventh. Either way, it won't be back until 2010. In the meantime, Rescue Me returns ...

By Jonathan Toomey Wow... that was some cold open, huh? Arguably the best the show has had yet. Barely any spoken words and set to some eerie song by who I think was The Twilight Singers. Babies being thrown out windows, bodies piled up on the sidewalk, and seven children who didn't make it. Even Lou said it was one of th...

By Jonathan Toomey And on the eighth day, He created drunken Irish firefighters with potentially illegitimate children and mouths like sailors. That's how the Bible reads, right? Wait... it isn't? Well it should, because right now Rescue Me is just about as close to a religious experience as you can get withou...

By Joel Keller Case in point: he announced this morning that he'll guest star on six episodes of Rescue Me this season, playing a fireman buddy of Denis Leary's character of Tommy Gavin. Perhaps this is part of the development deal Lange signed with FOX last year, as the show is on FX. But it may just be a part o...

By Anna Johns Well, lucky Denis. Jennifer Esposito is gorgeous! She was spectacular in Crash, but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear Jennifer Esposito's name is her guest stint on one episode of SVU way back in 2000. She played 'Sara Logan', a sarcastic television reporter who goes public with...

By Anna Johns Once again, my list is limited to male characters who are currently on television shows. So, for example, Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Pacey Witter (Joshua Jackson) cannot be included. Leave your own list in comments! Continue reading The Five: Characters I'd like to meet under the mis...

By Jonathan Toomey I'm not sure if it's still on the F/X website, but there used to be a blurb about how Denis Leary picked music for Rescue Me and apparently he stumbled onto this song one day while his son was listening to it. Good find. ...

By Jonathan Toomey S03E13) Another season comes and goes. I hate to say it, because I love this show, but I was a little disappointed with this finale. Same as I was with Deadwood a few nights ago. I just found it to be a bit of a slow episode that kind of meandered along. It (sort of) tied up a few loose ends and the cliffh...

By Jonathan Toomey S03E12) I get too emotional when I watch this show. It's just like the end of last season. The final few episodes are tear-jerkers and I'm a sucker for that stuff. That being said, I suppose that's giving the show some well deserved credit. If it can make you cry and and actually feel something, th...

By Jonathan Toomey As I said, a lot of this episode was build-up from stuff that we already knew about. Tommy and Sheila are still looking into moving in together. Sheila even bought the house. Franco finally made a deal with Richie about seeing his sister. It was actually a really good scene. Franco showed the guy s...

By Jonathan Toomey What this season (and this episode) have really been focusing on is the downfall of Tommy. Everything and everyone around him. It started last season as things started to look up for him and Janet, but it's been downhill ever since Connor's death. Starting next week with the final three episo...

By Jonathan Toomey What really has Tommy torn up is his buddy Stack. He was the guy Probie pulled from the fire last week. Since then he's had both his legs amputated from the knee down and he still hasn't come out of the coma. The way he described it, Tommy, Jimmy, and Stack were like the Three Musketeers in probie sc...

By Jonathan Toomey I'm sure most have seen the new Nip/Tuck promo running on F/X. The one where Sean and Christian give the Venus DeMilo arms? Kind of clever actually. Anyway, it says Nip/Tuck returns on Tuesday, September 5. However, according to the episode guide on the Rescue Me website, there are supposed t...

By Jonathan Toomey S03E08) Ahh, my glorious return to the age of power... well sort of. All my power is back but the internet is still down. So I'm at the office and I feel like everyone has more to say about this episode than me because they all saw last week's installment. But I feel pretty caught up. I've read some other...

By Anna Johns The American Family Association has convinced T-Mobile to pull its advertising from FX because of the adult-themed subjects covered in Rescue Me and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. According to AdAge, Don Wildmon and his supporters in the American Family Association "bombarded" T...

By Jonathan Toomey I miss watching television. I miss electricity and I'm sick of taking cold showers. Most of you may have noticed by now that I never got around to posting a review for this week's episode of Rescue Me, "Satisfaction." Well I have a good reason. I left work this past Tuesday at around 6:30. It was jus...

By Bob Sassone Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Programming, Rescue Me, FX The order is for 13 episodes, which might seem like a little, but this is cable, and the first three seasons of Rescue Me have been 13 episodes as well. Permalink | Email this | | Comments

By Jonathan Toomey Regardless, Tommy moves forward with his plan to use Angela (Johnny's ex played by Marisa Tomei) to get back at Johnny and Janet. At first Angela said no way. But she came around because she's pretty angry that she was always Johnny's second choice. We found out that Johnny proposed to Angela o...

By Anna Johns Filed under: Drama, Cable, Rescue Me, WebSeason three of Rescue Me begins May 30th, and to promote it, F/X and Sony are launching a 15-minute digital short that will be available online, on demand, and on cell phones. The stand-alone short, called Rescue Me 2.5, was written by Denis Leary an...

By Jonathan Toomey Rescue Me has a few things in store as well. If you recall, we left Denis Leary's character Tommy Gavin dealing with the death of his son Connor. During the fallout from that tragedy, we met Tommy's sister Maggie, played by Tatum O'Neal. Leary has said we can expect to see more of her as well as a ne...

By Anna Johns Filed under: Drama, NBC, FOX, Industry, 24, Rescue Me, The Shield, DVR, Video, Cable/Satellite, Prison BreakFOX Entertainment and DirecTV just signed a deal to offer some F/X programs to viewers up to two days before they are actually broadcast. Those programs include The Shield, Resc...