Does anybody know who I need to talk to at the FX network to get the season premiere of Rescue Me pushed up a few weeks?
I'm not asking because I'm particularly interested in seeing hack joke thief Denis Leary enjoy even more fame and success while Bill Hicks continues to moulder in the ground, or because I have any curiosity about who's going to rape whom this season, or even because it's a particularly good show. Of all the FX original series, I'd place Rescue Me somewhere below It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and just above Dirt.
But barely.
No, I want the premiere advanced so I can watch the season finale of The Shield (the quality of which Leary could only hope to mimic by disinterring Hick's corpse and using his skull for some arcane voudoun ritual) in fucking peace. The unending promos for the new season of Rescue Me - airing literally every commercial break - have made it necessary for me to either record episodes or pause them for at least 20 minutes so I can subsequently fast forward the commercials, something I really don't want to be forced to do for the final episode.
Oh, they're great commercials, don't get me wrong. The most popular one is Tommy driving a fire truck that he himself is also clinging to the back of. There's also one with Tommy in a fight on a deserted street...with himself. See, 'cause it's all about duality and torment within, which I guess wouldn't be apparent to us without getting beaten over the head with it every eight minutes.
If nothing else, throw me a bone and let Vic Mackey make a guest appearance and curb stomp Tommy Gavin once and for all.
The season finale is already torrented, if you’re interested. No commercials at all.
I have become so used to watching things on DVR and being able to fast forward commercials that I have also put a show on pause so that I could build in some commercial skipping time.
Bill Hicks is my co-pilot, but Always Sunny is WAY too forced. I like what they tried to do with it at first, but I just can’t get into it. Leary aside, there’s enough solid writing and characters in the rest of the show for me. If anything, Mencia seems to have ripped off more acts from people than Leary.
I’d pay to see Chiklis take Leary apart, are you kidding me!? It would be a short fight granted, but oh so satisfying.
As a charter member of the Rooting for the Armenians To Hobble Shane Vendrell Fan Club, I’m with you on the Rescue Me promos. They were whimsical at first and now, in their 80 kabillionth viewing, have been proven to cause madness.
This is pretty much the practice with FX, however, in which they relentlessly pimp their upcoming shows during the run of the current show’s season. Those Dirt promos were even worse at the time.