UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Kailansorac Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

caseyy-01129 Went back and re-watched. It gets better every time. Amazing writing.

ksmith402 Rescue Me is an amazing show that is a powerful meditation on post 9/11 society and a tribute to the hard work and service that firefighters do every day. It is a bold show that touches on risky topics that TV shows rarely touch on these days(looking at you Disney Chanel). It features some of the best writing and cinematography in modern TV shows. It also perfectly blends fleshed out characters, humour, and great performances including Denis Leary who also created and co-wrote the show exhibits perfect writing skill as well as dramatic and comedic range as Tommy Gavin and he should have won a Golden Globe for his efforts. Rescue Me is a great watch for any mature audience.

Kary_Testino This was a very gripping tale of truth for anyone who has lived through 9/11 in NYC. Even after 10 years this show can still make people understand what is going on in survivors heads on a daily basis. Denis has done a great job "teaching" others why we act the way we act. Why we do what we do after such a life changing day. It also brings to light the way city life is just so abnormal, so bizarre and how people who stay too long just become immune to what a good life can be. He also brings to light all the real issues that occur in the NYFD, being witnessed to much of the antics in my life I can attest to the sad truth. I feel sad that the show's run is over. This was one of the most realistic shows out there. The fire scenes maybe fake but they never where the point of the show. The show was meant to show people what happens in the personal lives of survivors of the greatest attack on US soil and how they cope. Even if the coping was centered around one person, it still showed that all of these guys feel sad, angry and lost inside. It really needs to come back for another season or so.

TonyCamonte84 There's no two ways about this: 'Rescue Me' is a soap opera. Yes, it has significantly better actors in it than 99% of other soaps, and yes, its production values are a lot higher, too. Still, in its essence 'Rescue Me' is not much more than one of those shows that are the very lowest form of television series. It's a masculine version of the soap opera that also features reoccurring parts of terribly unfunny and predictable sitcom. I could write a dozen paragraphs about how the main protagonist's completely unlikable character doesn't work in the same way the disgusting protagonist of 'Enlightened' worked, as 'Rescue Me's Tommy Gavin was just a terrible human being without providing any insights into… well… anything, or at least anything other than a overdrawn unrealistic fictional character. Or I could go on about the way the show is shot, and how bad camera work and awful musical montages drag the show further down. But in the end it doesn't come to any of this, when discussing why 'Rescue Me' is ultimately not a show worth watching.The story and the writing are what make 'Rescue Me' – plainly put – a bad show. In typical soap opera fashion conflicts get stacked upon each other in a laughably unrealistic fashion, one after the other. Suspension of disbelief is fine and all – I don't expect every show to be 'The Wire' in regards to realism – but 'Rescue Me' is so far out there it takes away from every other merit the show might have had otherwise.And there are some upsides to the show. The acting is generally very good, and I mainly attribute the performances of the main stars to not realizing how much of a soap opera the show really was within the 1st season. Maybe it wasn't back then – maybe it was indeed a decent show in the beginning that served as a kind of milieu story of the special breed of people that are fire-fighters – but I'm not going to re-watch it to find that out.Generally, I felt like the show got continually worse the more it wore on. When I was at season 4, I thought it really couldn't get much worse, but I was proved wrong three more times with each new season. It got unbearably bad at times, and – even at risk of repeating myself – I feel the need to again point out that it's unfair to potential new viewers as well as to other dramatic shows to classify 'Rescue Me' as a drama. It's not. It's a soap opera, quite clearly.