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Originally posted by ltl/fb
What's "Rescue Me" and why did it get TVMA?
Be detailed.
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Not sure how serious you are, but it's a dramedy on FX (basic cable) produced by Denis Leary about firefighters in TCOTU. The explicitness of the sex scenes rivals "Sex and the City," and the language is only slightly scaled back from that. (Not quite Samatha, but dirtier than Miranda and Charlotte put together.) It's a triumph of after-dark basic cable.
It's funny in an acid sort of way, and occasionally maudlin, but the characters are about 200% more complex than anything on the networks. So it's basically "Six Feet Under" for people who refuse to pay for HBO.
BTW, anyone else notice how there's a funny sort of vibe where each show has an homage to a prior TV hit? Like the plotline with Danny being unable to remember that cougar's name, culminating in "they're real and they're spectacular" --- that one was obvious. My wife has a strong suspicion that the Venus Butterfly reference is an homage to "LA Law" --- that killer sex position that no one could talk about but everyone hinted around because it was NBC and it was 1986. The joke being that you can now tune in to FX in 2004 to find out
exactly what the storied Venus Butterfly is.
