Hey everyone, first time viewer of Rescue Me and I've been binging the whole thing now for about two weeks now on Hulu. I've enjoyed it greatly for the most part but there is just one thing that continuously keeps grinding my gears more and more as the seasons continue to roll by and I feel the need to vent.

And that is that both Janet and Sheila are godawful people and irredeemable pieces of trash. I just finished the 5th season and while I had my eyes glued to the ending, a part of me still keeps going back to the interaction with Kelly. How f***cking empty and spiteful do you have to be to do that to a person just because you feel like you own a man, whom might I add, you want nothing more than to be a personal dildo that exists to please you? Literally, earlier in this very season Shelia admitted to Genevieve that she only started getting together with Tommy because she wanted some part of Jimmy to still exist with her and that she wishes that Tommy had died instead. And then Janet forces herself on Tommy for the umptieth time and then essentially tries blackmailing him to be her sex slave (might be a tad of an exaggeration), or be divorced and kept away from Katie. That's not to mention all the financial fraud/extortion, kidnaping, assault, coercion of minors, drugging and raping, and just the all around pathological lying that these two have done in the past 5 seasons.

And the sad part is that there is no goddamn consequence done to either of them as they just skate on by and continue to wrap Tommy and others around their fingers. And Tommy continuously takes this abuse, and for what I might add? Because they are both a 'hot piece of ass' as Truck 62 puts it? I'm sorry, but I don't care about how much Tommy hates himself or how hot both characters are, if a person is that insane and has repeatedly put you through this amount of torture for years, its time to cut them out of your life. They are evil, and no amount of sex is going to change that.

Like I know Tommy has a lot issues and he brings a lot of this crap upon himself, but after being blamed for everything by these two, including both the death of Jimmy and Connor respectively, I just keep getting pissed and thinking Why? When is enough, enough?

Does anyone else watch this series and regularly think Tommy did little to nothing wrong? The whole series he beats himself up over things that other people are responsible for, none of the rest of the characters take personal responsibility for anything and instead blame him for everything. There are a few exceptions that ironically don’t seem to create problems for Tommy where he is “the bad guy” everyone in the show thinks he is, one example the “rape?” . It’s just irritating that he’s supposed to be the problem guy throughout the show at least by what the characters think even Tommy himself thinks it but instead he’s simply the whipping post for every character to blame their bad decisions and emotional instability and insecurities on.

I posted this 3 years ago now i can post anyway why title

So I just finished my third reruns and honestly I feel like season 7 gets a lot of bad review that I don't get. I actually think it's a great season. Season 6 was meh but season 7 is where everyone just redeem themselves in my opinion. And that last episode? Genius! Also I'm sure that Lou would of have laugh hard at his ashes being all over the boys. Like that's kind of where he needed to be! A little bit of him in everyone! Ok that's all I got. See in couple years when I need to re run again!

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Found this show on blu ray for $39 bucks. It's been Years since I originally watch it and I forget how good it is. Especially the first 2 seasons. Don't remember much after season 2. But now I'm going in fresh like it's a first time viewing.

Noticed something I hadn't noticed before. During the short time late in season 1 and early in season 2 when Tommy is out on staten island... His commanding officer is a Captain but not only does his helmet say Lieutenant, but so does his shirt.

Re-watching the show for the first time and there are a lot of repeating themes, catchphrases, and scenarios that could make for a solid bingo board or drinking game. I may have missed some, but here - feel free to mix and match:

1. Someone uses "Because he/she/they're a Gavin" as an excuse for awful behavior
2. FDNY vs. NYPD public fights
3. Tommy gives a *good* speech
4. Split screen phone conversation between Tommy & anyone else
5. Jimmy Keefe's on screen
6. Tommy gets punched
7. Lou talks about desserts
8. Lou talks about cake specifically
9. The entire squad makes fun of Mike at the same time
10. Franco is referred to/calls himself a "pussy hound"
11. Sean understands something and Mike doesn't
12. Mike understands something and Sean doesn't
13. Domestic Violence
14. Someone talks about their "legacy"
15. Criticism of the Catholic Church
16. Irish stereotype jokes/Slurs about Irish people
17. The ghosts that haunt Tommy are on screen
18. "Asshole" said for the 10th time in the episode
19. Anyone talks about Sean's penis size
20. Mike gets roasted for not being straight
21. Gay jokes/stereotypes/slurs
22. Sheila throws a tantrum/starts crying/starts screaming when she's alone
23. A huge fight breaks out between more than 4 people
24. 5th time anyone says "booze" in the episode
25. Janet threats to take the kids away/prevent Tommy from seeing the kids
26. Janet wants her and Tommy to get back together but only under certain terms
27. Colleen makes a reckless decision that stresses Tommy and Janet out
28. AA Meeting
29. AA Meeting with 3 or more members of the Gavin Family
30. The guys try to pick up women as a group in a bar/nightclub
31. 5th time someone mentions 9/11
32. Fight (punches, shoving, etc) between blood related Gavin family members
33. Tommy talks directly to Jesus (hallucination, as a statue on the cross)
34. Tommy tries to revive someone that's already dead
35. Women hit on any of the guy's after a fight is put out
36. Someone says that Tommy's "losing it" while on the job
37. Black stereotypes/jokes/slurs
38. Asian jokes/stereotypes/slurs
39. Jewish stereotypes/slurs/jokes
40. Sheila moves to a new place
41. Janet has a new boyfriend
42. "Busting balls" is said
43. Tommy defies orders and does something dangerous on the job to save someone
44. Janet & Tommy sex scene
45. Sheila & Tommy sex scene
46. Colleen calls Janet a bitch
47. Janet says "Goddamn you/Goddamn it Tommy"
48. Any character has a monologue about death and the afterlife
49. Any character goes to confession at church
50. Tommy somehow influences his family to go against their best interests
51. Gavin family dinner/party
52. Firefighter from a different house has a unique nickname
53. Janet needs money from Tommy
54. Firefighters talk about how little they're paid
55. Tommy rants about something random (not religion or God or being Irish)
56. Janet and Sheila work together on something
57. Janet gives Tommy an ultimatum
58. Fight in the fire truck
59. The firefighters make jokes about the people they're saving
60. Tommy stands at the head of the table and rants at everyone while they're sitting down
61. Two of the 62 truck guys get into a fight at the firehouse (not Tommy)
62. One of the guys gets into a serious relationship
63. Stereotypes/slurs/jokes about Puerto Ricans
64. Car chase/speeding
65. Car accident
66. Sheila says she wants a baby
67. The guys sit around the table talking about women
68. Sexual assault
69. 9/11 Widows
70. Shit talk about Staten Island
71. "Chocolatey" is used to describe anyone (add another shot if it's Sheila)
72. Anyone gets into a fight in the literal street
73. Teddy talks about his time in Vietnam
74. Michael Gavin (Tommy's dad) talks about WW2
75. Any character seeks out mental health treatment
76. Tommy flies into a jealous rage and punches someone/beats them up
77. Anyone mentions Rosemary Gavin/Rosemary Gavin on screen (the deaf sister)
78. Janet or Tommy pays the kids off to leave
79. Tommy announces that he's quitting drinking
80. Tommy destroys property while drunk
81. Tommy is talking to hallucinations/ghosts and someone walks in on him
82. Tommy thinks a dead person was alive (and talking to him) when on a job
83. Tommy's really good with children (not his own or Damien)
84. Fat jokes in general
85. Fat jokes about Lou specifically
86. Tommy pulls out a wad of cash
87. Money is referred to as cabbage
88. The ghosts/hallucinations encourage Tommy to do something horrible
89. Tommy's in a cemetery
90. Any of the guy's goes on a comically bad date with a "crazy" woman
91. Any character opens up about their struggles and the other person/people react VERY unsupportively
92. Tommy is peer pressured into drinking when everyone knows he's trying to be sober
93. Tommy says "Lemme tell you something, pal"
94. Tommy beats up members of the press
95. Tommy gets upset because he's not the center of attention
96. The crew just barely escapes a burning building
97. Sheila, Tommy, or Janet talk about high school, elementary school
98. Franco gives sex/romance advice
99. Anyone places a bet on something
100. Lou is called by his actual name - Ken/Kenneth/Kenny

Tommy fucks anything with a vagina without protection and then wonders why everyone is knocked up or why he has chlamydia. Then Janet gets pregnant by Tommy and then Johnny. Wtf?!

I may have missed this as I watched but whatever happened to the 9/11 documentary that the French lady was making? Don’t really remember her story arc reaching a conclusion. Last I remember from her was her letting Lou sleep with her to spite Tommy.

I just finished streaming this show today. Seasons 1-4 were so good and so funny. I felt with Season 5 when they expanded to a 22 episode season that the show began to drag a little bit. The storyline between Tommy, Janet and Sheila just became overdone IMO. The constant going back and forth between the 2 women became kind of a tiresome plot line. Really felt they could have done more with Maura Tierney’s character. Her and Tommy seemed to have a deep bond and we saw sides of Tommy with her we didn’t see with anyone else. Wish they would have explored that further. There were a few other things here and there I wish they’d done different, or plot lines that they just seemed to forget about, not making Colleen and Katie characters so insufferable would have been nice, etc.

Some of the early season moments between Mike and Garritty were so laugh out loud funny, had me in tears a few times. This show was so politically incorrect and wouldn’t survive today, lol.

Overall though, I really liked the show and I’m glad I decided to give it a watch.

I'm from Sweden, it isn't on any streaming service here, I don't really have access to a VPN. I'm assuming I'll have to torrent but I wanted to see if people here had any ideas first.

I saw the show 8 years ago, loved it, I want to rewatch it.

Very similar to Sopranos in that way. I’m rewatching season 1 right now and I’m amazed how modern it feels. Most shows from the early/ mid 00s seem so dated to me now. Not Rescue Me. Such an awesome show.

You see the brotherhood play out amongst all of the characters but as I've been bingewatching, I've noticed more than before that Tommy and Lou have a really touching friendship (that's the most whuss way I could describe it, I know, but bear with me). So many TV shows just tell you two characters are best friends but you don't really see them set apart from any other sense. With Tommy and Lou though, things definitely are different between them and the rest of the guys. Something that stood out to me is that after Connor died and Tommy was keeping to himself in a different part of the firehouse, Lou took him lunch on a tray, something that seemed to have become regular. In the one I just watched tonight, Tommy's air tank wasn't working and Lou took his own mask off and offered it to him without hesitation - the firefighter's version of giving someone the shirt off your back, I'm guessing. And while so much shit spreads like wildfire as gossip, most of the convos Lou and Tommy have are kept between them - quite a contrast of some of the other guys.

I've watched this series no less than 6 times through and this is the first time I'm really catching how shitty of a friend Sean is. He blabs literally everything Mike tells him and everything he finds out about him. It seems like they're the other best friend duo Sean is just...not a good friend.

Currently on the episode where the rookie hooks up with his lady’s hot daughter. Watching again got me reminiscing about coming home from class smoking weed and binge watching this show all day at 17-18 with not a care in the world. The good ol days. Lol. Show is A+.

This show really aired in a sweet spot because even 5 years later and it would’ve been canceled quick as shit because all of the politically incorrect jokes would just be taken at face value. There are certain opinions held by characters that I may not agree with but that’s actually why I love Rescue Me, these characters feel so real, for better or worse. Because people hold all sorts of different ideals and views.

I’ve seen a few people express their discomfort with the homophobic content on the show but once I really thought about it, there are a lot of gay characters on here and the plots surrounding their sexuality go pretty deep. There’s no way Denis Leary isn’t an ally. He’s not vocal about it but it definitely came through in Rescue Me (plus co-creator Peter Tolan later came out as gay so he contributed to this as well). But you have Jerry’s son Peter, Mike, Sheila’s lesbian moment, Colleen…and there for sure are more. In general, homosexuality comes up quite a bit and Tommy never seems particularly heated about it.

They aren’t treated perfectly and it’s not accepted wholeheartedly, which is exactly what you’d expect from this environment and era. It’s real. These are guys who grew up when being gay was definitely a bad thing and the f slur was normal. But eventually even the staunchly homophonic characters develop a “live and let live” attitude and Mike is accepted by the end. The gay characters are never painted negatively, if anything the homophobes are…what Jerry does in the first season is pretty terrible, there are no two ways about it.

I just think this is interesting because it’s not what you’d expect from a show like this, honestly. If the creators were actually homophobic it wouldn’t have been included at all. I think Rescue Me took way too much shit over this (if you look it up, there are multiple articles talking about the homophobic content) when it should’ve been praised. This is as real as it gets, as is the case with most things on here.

The communities that were added into it, only includes new reddit css style not the old format so sorry for the confusion.

FX drama - Damages

FX drama - Snowfall

FX drama - Pose

FX drama - Mr In Between

Rest were added in before, let me know if you are currently okay with the list

Mayans MC was not added to the list due to aggressive censorship in their community and random banning of users and also very limited way of making posts.

FX communities are very small and I would like them to grow.

Is it just me or is there the implication during Garrity's "I am gonna propose" question/speech that Mike just slept with Garrity's fiancé (Emily) or am I seeing something that isn't there?

This show has been in my top five, maybe three, shows of all time. And I had only watched through it once, when it originally aired. I just finished binging the show for my second watch through. And now I just want to watch it again and again. The characters - the chemistry - the dialogue - the subject matter - all on point. And the ending… The first time I watched it and thought that all the guys had died but Lou - I had to pause it and I sobbed uncontrollably for at least 15 minutes or more curled up on my couch in the fetal position (there was a lot going on in my life at the time and this just simply was not what I needed) before restarting it and realizing that it was Lou only that had died. Still cried. And when I finished the show for a second time last night I still cried. Not an ugly cry but sadness nevertheless. Just so fucking powerful. But what made the ending for me was that I didn’t feel like they wrapped everything up in a nice neat cheesy bow. I felt - and still feel - like the next day, you could just walk right in to the fire house and all those guys would be sitting around bullshitting and ball busting just like always. Things changed, but they stayed the same.

You can tell the way Lou messes with Tommy is vastly different then how he messes with everyone else. Anyone besides Tommy, he can pull rank and just tell someone (Usually Garrett or Mike) to do something and they have to do it, so he just speaks to them and it usually turns into them showing everyone how stupid they are (ie Garrity’s middle name). But with Tommy, Lou knows Tommy’s been around and is too clever for that shit, so he has to elaborately and quickly explain things and give Tommy so much info that his head starts spinning eventually loses track of what’s going on, and then Lou can have him do shit he wouldn’t normally do (ie letting Colleen’s band boyfriend fuck him up, going on dates with Chief Fineberg’s daughter). The best part about it is that Lou typically makes them too elaborate, to the point the consequences typically just get way out of hand from what Lou was expecting, and sometimes the camera focuses on Lou and his shock over what is happening (this is see. heavily when Colleen’s bf roughs up Tommy, bc Lou is right there to see the carnage he has caused).

Another thing I noticed was when Lou walks in on Theresa and his cousin Mike (Artie Lange), Theresa gets really turned on from the violence. When Mike first hits Lou, she is shocked and excited, but worried about Lou. But then when Lou stands up she gets a big smile and starts dancing in the background, and then Mike hits Lou again and still dancing and smiling until Lou says Mike “screwed the women I love”, then she gets very sad over what happened.

Trying to find which episode tommy makes the save in a skyscraper. I think it was a window washer? Any ideas?

Who would belong to that top 10, can be any character from the show ? Now can you put them in order for personality traits ?