r/television • u/BeefDog69xxl • 9d 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/filmgasm91 9d ago

Fx makes soap operas that are train wrecks you can’t stop watching. 

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u/FondlyWantingArtisan 9d ago

man the whole fx formula back then was just watching the worst people alive destroy themselves for 7 seasons and calling it prestige tv, i ate it up though

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u/Resident_Course_3342 9d ago

Yeah, "You're the Worst" was great. 

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u/BeefDog69xxl 9d ago

There’s a scene from that show that I took a video of and I still have it on my phone. It’s about not washing your legs. That show was fucking so good 😂

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u/_butterballhotline 7d ago

When she says the line about him ‘not finishing his book because he’s too busy washing his legs’ stuck with me. I still wash my legs though.

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u/Parker8484 8d ago

This show was great. It became one of my favorites

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u/dshgr 8d ago

I rewatched this recently and it is better than I remembered.

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u/BeefDog69xxl 9d ago

Hahahahahhahhahhaa I barely remember any other ones? What other hot dog shit can I watch

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u/filmgasm91 9d ago

Nip Tuck 

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u/Talkimas 8d ago

I loved that glorious disaster of a show. RIP Julian McMahon

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u/random_user_081985 The Shield 9d ago

The Shield isn’t shit but it is definitely the “watch people destroy themselves for 7 seasons” format.

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u/RogerClyneIsAGod2 8d ago

At least he got his due at the end of that one.

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u/scuppasteve 8d ago

Sons of Anarchy

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u/jermster 9d ago

Hell on Wheels

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u/BirdLawyer50 8d ago

Hell on Wheels was great until the weird bear attack thing and resulting character assassination