Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Short TV Blog
Rescue Me misses a step (until the end) this week. The hallucinations about Mary (whomever) and Jesus are really getting on my nerves. They're not a dry drunk, nor are they really psychotic hallucinations, even though Tommy's cousin, the lapsed priest, has to take a lot of anti-psychotics for his (I'd definitely take the ones that made the Hillary voice go away). They are cheap thrills without any real impact from hack writers desperate to be edgy. Like the ghosts in the first year, they have overstayed their welcome and need to be abandoned. The discussion among the guys about what they call each other and new names for women's body parts was great, almost worthy of Tarentino at his best. I see, however, little bits of the bad first show Leary was on (The Job) creeping in to spoil things. The female firefighter, Laura, is great (she was also on The Job) but Uncle Teddy needs to go away for a while. He was the worst thing on the The Job and there's absolutely no nostalgia working for him in my book. I liked the extended future hallucination Tommy had outside the liquor store near the end and his oldest daughter's sudden appearance. Despite hit or miss success, the set-up for better is clearly in place.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 9:12 PM 
