“Rescue Me” season opener
It finally happened and I was thrilled! It opened with Tommy being interrogated about the fire incident. Apparently this is a dream, and he’s describing what happened up to the time he can’t remember anything. He and Sheila are watching “Meerkat Manor” about a family of meerkats, and one of them, Shakespeare, is bitten by a scorpion and may not make it back to the family compound that night alive. Tommy is really concerned about Shakespeare which I loved because I watched that very same episode on “Animal Planet.” Another good reason to like Denis Leary! He blacks out then and is awakened in real time by his baby son crying. He’s back home with his ex-wife, Janet, and baby – the father could be Tommy or his brother Johnny who was living with Janet before he was killed. Very complicated. Janet doesn’t think the baby likes her, so Tommy takes most of the care of him. Tommy’s teen daughter comes home at 3am, vomits on the floor and tells Tommy she just had many drinks, smoked a joint and had sex in the car with her boyfriend. Tommy wakes up Janet and tells her what the daughter, Colleen, has been up to and about the pot and sex, and Janet says she knows everything. She says about the pot: “At least it’s good pot, not the cheap shit we used to get.”
This episode touches briefly on each of the firefighters, providing a little insight into what might be in store for them during the season.
Chief Reilly wants to come back to work following his heart attack. Last season, Tommy gave the chief some Viagra when he was going to have sex with an illegal from Jamaica. But he has a heart attack right in the middle of everything and screams at her to call 911, but she yells back that she can’t as she’s an illegal. So she runs out and the chief is left on the floor until the next day when the firefighters break in and find him.
Lou is seeing a nun who plans to soon be an ex-nun, and she’s becoming very aggressive. They have sex in the balcony during church services and hit the organ which makes a loud organ noise. Lou pops his head up and tells the priest that he’s just up there checking the organ to see if it works . . . and it does.
Franco is being pressured into marrying his girlfriend by her brother who is autistic and has Tourette’s Syndrome. He wants the apartment to himself so he can bring his girlfriend over – she has Downe’s Syndrome and is in a wheelchair. The brother is horny and wants sex. He tells Franco his girlfriend has a nice ass, and Franco asks how he can tell if she’s in a wheelchair? The brother says they stand her up every once in a while.
Mike is still sexually confused and doesn’t know which way to go.
Sean is married to Maggie (Tatum O’Neal) who is Tommy’s crazy, wild sister. She watches porn all the time and tells him it will bring life back into their marriage. They’ve been married 9 months. She makes Sean watch it with her, but he wants to get rid of it but is scared of Maggie. Who wouldn’t be?
And there’s the new guy with the white hair who is filling in for Chief Jerry. He’s having a hard time making “guy talk” with the crew. As he starts telling them the “fun” facts of propane, the guys drift off, rolling their eyes. So he asks a couple of them what they like to talk about and they tell him “pussy” is good.
I think this season the women are becoming more empowered and the men are searching within themselves for their feminine sides. In this opening episode, it seems as if the women are calling most of the shots. Nona (Jennifer Esposito) who plays the volunteer firefighter who carried Tommy out of the burning building is determined to have a relationship with him. She shows a new way to ask for a date and it is way past aggressive!
This is looking like an interesting year for the show. It is so well written by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan - one minute you’re laughing and the next you’re experiencing a heartbreaking incident. It is a great mix of comedy and drama and, as far as I’m concerned, about the best well-written show I’ve seen.
It finally happened and I was thrilled! It opened with Tommy being interrogated about the fire incident. Apparently this is a dream, and he’s describing what happened up to the time he can’t remember anything. He and Sheila are watching “Meerkat Manor” about a family of meerkats, and one of them, Shakespeare, is bitten by a scorpion and may not make it back to the family compound that night alive. Tommy is really concerned about Shakespeare which I loved because I watched that very same episode on “Animal Planet.” Another good reason to like Denis Leary! He blacks out then and is awakened in real time by his baby son crying. He’s back home with his ex-wife, Janet, and baby – the father could be Tommy or his brother Johnny who was living with Janet before he was killed. Very complicated. Janet doesn’t think the baby likes her, so Tommy takes most of the care of him. Tommy’s teen daughter comes home at 3am, vomits on the floor and tells Tommy she just had many drinks, smoked a joint and had sex in the car with her boyfriend. Tommy wakes up Janet and tells her what the daughter, Colleen, has been up to and about the pot and sex, and Janet says she knows everything. She says about the pot: “At least it’s good pot, not the cheap shit we used to get.”
This episode touches briefly on each of the firefighters, providing a little insight into what might be in store for them during the season.
Chief Reilly wants to come back to work following his heart attack. Last season, Tommy gave the chief some Viagra when he was going to have sex with an illegal from Jamaica. But he has a heart attack right in the middle of everything and screams at her to call 911, but she yells back that she can’t as she’s an illegal. So she runs out and the chief is left on the floor until the next day when the firefighters break in and find him.
Lou is seeing a nun who plans to soon be an ex-nun, and she’s becoming very aggressive. They have sex in the balcony during church services and hit the organ which makes a loud organ noise. Lou pops his head up and tells the priest that he’s just up there checking the organ to see if it works . . . and it does.
Franco is being pressured into marrying his girlfriend by her brother who is autistic and has Tourette’s Syndrome. He wants the apartment to himself so he can bring his girlfriend over – she has Downe’s Syndrome and is in a wheelchair. The brother is horny and wants sex. He tells Franco his girlfriend has a nice ass, and Franco asks how he can tell if she’s in a wheelchair? The brother says they stand her up every once in a while.
Mike is still sexually confused and doesn’t know which way to go.
Sean is married to Maggie (Tatum O’Neal) who is Tommy’s crazy, wild sister. She watches porn all the time and tells him it will bring life back into their marriage. They’ve been married 9 months. She makes Sean watch it with her, but he wants to get rid of it but is scared of Maggie. Who wouldn’t be?
And there’s the new guy with the white hair who is filling in for Chief Jerry. He’s having a hard time making “guy talk” with the crew. As he starts telling them the “fun” facts of propane, the guys drift off, rolling their eyes. So he asks a couple of them what they like to talk about and they tell him “pussy” is good.
I think this season the women are becoming more empowered and the men are searching within themselves for their feminine sides. In this opening episode, it seems as if the women are calling most of the shots. Nona (Jennifer Esposito) who plays the volunteer firefighter who carried Tommy out of the burning building is determined to have a relationship with him. She shows a new way to ask for a date and it is way past aggressive!
This is looking like an interesting year for the show. It is so well written by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan - one minute you’re laughing and the next you’re experiencing a heartbreaking incident. It is a great mix of comedy and drama and, as far as I’m concerned, about the best well-written show I’ve seen.
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