It’s a month away and so much has happened between seasons 4 and now. First, I never thought I’d like Rescue Me even more than I already did until I met him…
But anyways it’s starting April 7 and it looks like it will blow away season 4. I know a lot of you on here weren’t fans of season 4 but go to the official site on fxnetwork.com and check out some of the previews. It’s 22 episodes long this time and it looks like a lot of crazy shit is going to go down. I can’t fucking wait.
I’ll be happy when it starts up. The WTC attack conspiracy shit will probably get tiresome, but I’m still looking forward to it. I can’t wait to see Michael J Fox.
I mowed through the first three seasons last December, and am trying to find an extra $30 somewhere to get the fourth season before this start up again.
WTC conspiracy in the next season? Are you serious?
I’m glad that they couldn’t squeeze out S5 last year because it gave me some more time to forget S4. I’ll be watching but I just don’t know. This is the first I’m hearing of the WTC conspiracy and add that to a 22 episode season, it doesn’t look good. I really hope I’m wrong because this used to be one of my favorite shows.
Daniel Sunjata (Franco) truly believes that the US government destroyed the WTC. Somehow the writers decided to fit this into the character of Franco, and are making it part of his arc for the season.
You can tell from some of the cast members they think he’s a nut, but seem to placate him. Hopefully it is just one episode or so.
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| Originally Posted by BillyG View Post Daniel Sunjata (Franco) truly believes that the US government destroyed the WTC. Somehow the writers decided to fit this into the character of Franco, and are making it part of his arc for the season. Sunjata is Nuts You can tell from some of the cast members they think he’s a nut, but seem to placate him. Hopefully it is just one episode or so. |
Actually after reading that article, the 9/11 conspiracy theory causing a rift among the fire fighters might be an interesting angle, especially since Sunjata is a real life believer.
Ugh, Michael Franti and Spearhead?
Ya know after the last season of this and this huge break I really don’t give a fuck about this show anymore.
Only 5 more days left until the premiere of season 5.
There’s a good article from ew.com…
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| Some shows, when they hit a fifth season — as Rescue Me is now doing — grope for story lines, search for ways to spruce up familiar characters, and work in ratings-goosing guest stars. Their straining effort is obvious, and you can smell the desperation. But with Rescue Me, you smell the smoke: This series is officially on fire now. Denis Leary’s Tommy Gavin and his Manhattan firefighters are up to their usual tricks. Tommy continues to struggle with sobriety and ‘‘sees’’ his dead cousin Jimmy (James McCaffrey). Pudgy horndog Lou (the wise John Scurti) falls for a comely French journalist (The L Word’s Karina Lombard). Tommy’s estranged wife, Janet (the shimmering Andrea Roth), falls for a lout who’s great in bed (Michael J. Fox in an Emmy-deserving guest arc). And Tommy’s dum-dum teammates buy a bar and attempt to make it a hip hangout…by painting everything in it, including the glasses, black. I’ve only skimmed the surface, suggesting without spoiling what happens in Rescue Me’s new episodes. Last season, the show hit a rough patch. Its balance of laughs ‘n’ drama was itchy and off-kilter, with too much time spent picking at the Gavin family’s emotional scabs. Now Rescue Me has taken on an invigorated intensity. The emotional center of the series has always been the events of Sept. 11, a tragedy that is the literal ground-zero source of nearly all the pain the central characters continue to experience. And co-creators Leary and exec producer/writer Peter Tolan know they risk exploiting that event for melodrama or laughs. But the new season demonstrates that good entertainment can address anything. Here, in episodes about what Tommy sees in BBC footage of the Twin Towers’ collapse, and the diseases suffered by firefighters involved in that calamity, the series earns both its drama and its bleak, soul-cleansing humor. Of course, this being Rescue Me, none of this is solemn — it’s raucous and funny even when it’s tearing at your heart. You’ve got to watch to see firefighter Franco’s 9/11 conspiracy rants (Daniel Sunjata is so good at righteous vehemence). You’ve got to see Stephanie March, formerly a stiff on Law & Order: SVU, come to life as a psychic who’s advising both Tommy and lovably goofy Mike (clever Mike Lombardi). And you cannot miss Michael J. Fox’s performance as a wheelchair-whirling, scruffy, profane rival for Janet’s affections. By the time he takes Tommy for a hair-raising car ride in week 5’s episode, you feel as though you’re in the backseat, hanging on for dear life, happily. |
Sounds like its going to be good, but I’m still concerned about the lengthy season, making seasons longer almost always results in filler episodes.
The upside being that Rescue Me’s filler episodes are often more entertaining than the major plot arcs.
IT’S BACK TONIGHT!! Finally.
Here’s a new interview with John Scurti (Lou)
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| The men of 62 Truck have always got each others’ backs in the field, but tension inside the firehouse will he higher than ever during Rescue Me’s 22-episode fifth season (premieres Tuesday at 9 pm/ET, FX). Particularly, Tommy (Denis Leary) and Lou (John Scurti) butt heads over — what else? — a woman. Actually, a couple of women, including one of Lou’s old flames. We caught up with Scurti to find out if Tommy and Lou’s friendship will survive, whether or not we’ll hear any more of Lou’s poetry and how the show plans to overcome its extra-long hiatus. TVGuide.com: How excited are you to have the show back on the air? John Scurti: It seems like the last time we were on the air, polio was rampant. But I have a funny feeling that our fan base has actually gotten bigger because of the extra time. I think we’re one of those shows that once you get into it, you kind of want to get a whole season, darken your windows for a weekend and eat it up with a spoon. So I think people have had time to get caught up. We’re coming back big, and I know that what we’re putting out there, everyone is going to be really happy with. TVGuide.com: How do you keep the show fresh after four seasons? Scurti: As an actor, we have a lot more leniency on this show — it’s more fluid than anything else I’ve ever worked on. The script is not a Bible to us; we’re able to make suggestions. Up until those cameras are rolling, and sometimes even during the camera roll, things are being updated and eliminated. [Co-creators Peter Tolan and Leary] listen to our suggestions, and things really move in some interesting ways in Season 5. It’s new stuff, but there are some old faces that come in. TVGuide.com: Yes, we’ve heard one of Lou’s old flames is coming back. Can you tell us who? Scurti: There have been so many. [Laughs] His love life is like riding a roller coaster. But Milena Govich, who plays Candy, the prostitute who took Lou for everything, comes back in a big way. TVGuide.com: That has to cause some problems at the station, right? Scurti: For the most part, the guys are OK with it — Tommy is not. He’s looking at his best friend putting his hand right back into the fire. And at one point, Tommy and Lou come to what was written in the script as “the most violent fight in Rescue Me history.” I think we fall short of that, but he and I have a great big hockey fight where everything in the room ends up on the floor. TVGuide.com: So, is the Lou-Tommy bromance in trouble? Scurti: The fight stems from Tommy’s refusal to let me be happy with [Candy]. He just won’t let it lie. Tommy’s the kind of guy who doesn’t know that he’s put too many straws on the camel’s back. There’s a couple times, actually, this season where he pushes Lou’s buttons. TVGuide.com: What’s one of the others? Scurti: In the beginning of the season, Tommy and Lou end up locking horns over a woman (Karina Lombard) who appears on the scene, and we get a lot of mileage out of that. I mean, Lou shaves his mustache off for this woman. TVGuide.com: Sounds like Lou is going to be just as busy as he was with the nympho nun last season. Scurti: [Laughs] There’s a great tradition in television of giving these character actors beautiful wives. It dates back to Fred Flintstone. I’m not sure how it happens, but I’ve had a good run. TVGuide.com: So will we see more of Lou the poet this season as he chases after this new lady? Scurti: Well, she’s a French writer named Genevieve. And Lou, of course, thinks, “Well, if she’s a writer and I’m a writer…” So with Lou being blind to the fact that he should never pick up a pen again except to sign his paycheck, it gets his juices going. But luckily, you don’t have to sit through any of his poetry. TVGuide.com: The show has already been picked up for a sixth season. What do you think that might hold for Lou? Scurti: I would love to find Lou semi-retired and running a geisha house. [Laughs] Seriously, I think there is going to be another 18 episodes, and I have a feeling — unless the stars realign — that that might be it. Where it will go, I don’t know, but I would say that it will be as dark and as troubled it can. I think there’s going to be some shocking things. I don’t think it’s going to end with Bob Newhart’s wife waking up next to him. TVGuide.com: Is that darkness set up by dramatic events at the end of this season? Scurti: There’s a fair amount of darkness in Season 5. One of us gets cancer and it’s really touch-and-go. There’s a lot of soul-searching and facing the inevitable. But there’s also some of the funniest stuff I think we’ve ever shot. One scene might have you weeping on the couch, and the next will have you laughing your balls off. |
Scurti is the fookin man. The guy deserves more recognition for his work on this show.
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| Originally Posted by The Closer View Post Scurti is the fookin man. The guy deserves more recognition for his work on this show. |
I obviously agree…
(this post may make less sense the next time I change avatars.)
Good season premiere. They did a real good job with the fires this week. The ending was really sad. It looks like Tommy and the Chief are going to come to blows this season after seeing the Chief holding Tommy back from going to save the guy at the end.
Garrity and Mike opening up a bar is going to be LOL funny.
Mickey at the Church and drinking was pretty good too. I liked Tommy’s rant after he was watching the family videos with the family.
Michael J. Fox was on it already. I can’t wait to see where they go with him and Tommy.
From the previews it looks like both Johnny and Jimmy will make appearances. I hope the father does too.
Good premiere. I’d almost forgotten what a completely self-absorbed prick Tommy is. Liking Fox already.
Fox’s scene was great. Rest was just same old, same old.
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| Originally Posted by Moltisanti View Post Fox’s scene was great. Rest was just same old, same old. |
Completely agree about Fox’s scene, but not about the rest being same old stuff. I was ready to give this show the ax (been doing that with quite a few shows lately), but something about it felt fresher, more light than last season which was pretty dreadful. If they keep this up, I’ll make it through this season easily.
And allow me to be the first to say it this season - Andrea Roth is flat out smokin’ hot. 13 years older than me, and she’d give some of my hottest friends a run for their money…