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The new season of Rescue Me started tonight (last night--Tuesday) on FX at 8:00 Denver time. Good start for the season, but just as with the other iconoclastic sitcom Denis Leary was in a few years back The Job, about a drunk cop (as opposed to a drunk firefighter here), the show has become a little Denis-centric. I'm the one who's leary. Still, the supporting cast, bolstered with Lee Tergesen (who was so good in Oz), are a joy to watch. The relationship Leary has with his brother and cousins, in this first episode of the new season, is painfully true to life, in a sort of broad comedy way, which pretty much is the way all the relationships on the show are depicted. They've dropped the "I see dead people" sub theme (thank God) and just have better dream sequences which cover the same ground in a much more realistic way (because face it, film makers, when people die, they go away forever--it's part of what is so terrible about death--and they don't come back and we can't see them again or talk to them ever again and that you director types show the dead coming back again and again in movies and on TV is only because the actor playing the dead guy is not really dead, so it's a cheap, easy way to pretend to be cutting edge, but the facile conceit has lost any power it once had through repetition and what was merely a bad idea a few years ago has now become a terrible, hackneyed cliche. Really, stop it).
I'll be there Tuesdays to follow the freak show.