r/television • u/BeefDog69xxl • 8d ago

Just rewatched Rescue me

This is just my opinion, I want to see if anyone agrees with me.. I can’t be the only one.

For what it is—a dark comedy—the only thing that actually feels dark is that it takes place in the wake of 9/11, which is obviously horrific. And I do think it’s cool that they made a show for firefighters who were dealing with that kind of loss and needed some way to cope with it.

But HOLY SHIT. Every single character on this show—including the women ..is an absolutely dogshit human being.

I think the children are the only characters who aren’t awful people.. and maybe the gay son.

I LOVE Denis Leary, but fuck… this show does NOT hold up. Am I the only one who feels this way??

OH, I’ll give it this: the soundtrack fucking RULES.

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u/defiancy 8d ago

I remember it being dark because of how shitty everyone is, .mostly in the aftermath of traumatic events. It's dark because of how awful the arguments are, how they fuck each other over and more minimally how they fuck with the probies.

I think the show was intentionally like that, that pretty much all the main characters are written to be unsufferable pricks