Love Lou, will always love Lou, and love that he really preferred drunk Tommy because that was the more fun Tommy. So how do you mitigate the after effects? It brought up really interesting questions which I felt the show has gotten away from asking. And I got how these macho jobs (military, firefighters, cops) have such an incredible effect on the people in them, and yet-we can't live without those jobs. He can't get past that day because he feels responsible for not being by Jimmy's side. I thought it was pretty powerful, and made me understand Tommy (thought of as a hero in the rest of his work life, but when it counted in 9/11, he didn't feel that heroic without his cousin) a little better. The shootout scene was pretty intense to me, and overall I liked the opening scene. So far this season has been way better than last, and I think the ghosts are more effective when they don't talk so much-as in the first season. I hope the first half of last night's show was just a slight backslide and that they'll be back on track next week or the week after. I absolutely agree-especially about the women throwing themselves at Tommy and the advertising part: just look at the DVD art going from Season 1 as it progresses-the rest of the guys have less and less place on it (despite the fact that viewers voted for a more inclusive cover on one of the sets) until the most recent one where they're nowhere to be found. "One of the more frustrating parts of the two seasons of "Rescue Me" before this resurgent one was the sense that the show was making choices less for dramatic reasons than to feed Denis Leary's ego: more women throwing themselves at Tommy, more scenes of Tommy single-handedly saving the day, Leary solo in most of the advertising, etc., etc." (It also showcased Mike Lombardi's singing voice.) Franco's boxing subplot was amusing enough (albeit not as amusing as Franco explaining that, of the two times he had gonorrhea, once was as a carrier), and all in all the show feels like more of an ensemble this year, even in an episode where the first half was 90% Tommy. Mike's reaction to the Cleveland Steamer definition may be the funniest line of the season so far, but that scene also continued to show him not being a complete imbecile. And the scene in the aftermath, with Lou suggesting that a drunk Tommy is a more interesting Tommy, was terrific, and continued to prove that making those two roommates was a great idea (as well as an excuse for Leary to share a lot of scenes with his strongest co-star).Īnd the episode's second half made good use of the supporting cast, primarily, but not entirely, in comic relief. I didn't love the bar sequence, even with the returns of Dean Winters and Charles Durning, but that's because I've never really been a big fan of Tommy's alcoholic nightmares, and those have been a part of the show since the pilot. ICEMAN KILLER YOU MAD ME MAD SERIESSo an episode like "Iceman" - which included that long (I clocked it at 15 minutes, which is an eternity in modern TV drama time) sequence of Tommy at the bar, arguing ghosts and getting into a shoot-out with what turned out to be the adult ghost of his dead son and which climaxed with Tommy literally running through a wall of fire to save Damien - should have made me worried that the series is starting to backslide into its bad habits. "You never told us what to do after." -TommyOne of the more frustrating parts of the two seasons of "Rescue Me" before this resurgent one was the sense that the show was making choices less for dramatic reasons than to feed Denis Leary's ego: more women throwing themselves at Tommy, more scenes of Tommy single-handedly saving the day, Leary solo in most of the advertising, etc., etc. Spoilers for the latest episode of "Rescue Me" coming up just as soon as I cancel my trip to Cleveland.
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