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Rescue Me
Anyone else watching this? I'm not a Denis Leary fan --- in fact, I hated hated hated him during his stand-up and MTV spot days --- but I'd heard good things about "The Job" and regretted not getting into it after it was cancelled. So I watched this.
Wow. Good show (so far). Basically a retread of "The Job" except in a FDNY firehouse. Strong language, graphic depiction of death and dead people, good picture of how basic humanity also motivates the racism and sexism of the environment. Has a kind of "Dead Like Me" and "Six Feet Under" feel to it, as Leary's character is literally haunted by the six people he's watched die in fires or at 9/11.
Broadcast networks are incapable of producing a show with an anti-hero at its center without trying to make em's obvious character flaws somehow lovable. They've left all the difficult and interesting characters to HBO and now basic cable.
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