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Bilious, alcoholic New York City fireman Tommy Gavin (Denis Leary) literally returns from the dead in the sixth and final season of Rescue Me. But Tommy's haunting vision of the afterlife isn't half as purgatorial as the festival of stress and guilt that is his actual life: his daughter is slipping into addiction, his job is threatened by budget cuts, he's juggling his wife Janet (Andrea Roth) and his dead brother's widow Sheila (Callie Thorne), he feels responsible for the crippling of another fireman, he discovers that Janet is hiding a pregnancy from him, and just about everyone hates him at one time or another. The weakness of Rescue Me has always been the central conflict: vacillating between drinking and not drinking loses its emotional heft over dozens of episodes. Watching everyone in Tommy's life badger and berate him again and again for his floundering attempts to keep them all happy also feels repetitive. But the show's saving grace is its humor, which ranges from goofy verbal banter in the firehouse break room (such as trying to decide if a pavilion is more or less than a million) to the worst excesses of human nature played for maximum comic effect (using a brain-damaged coworker as a ploy to pick up women is only the tip of this iceberg of psychological squalor). At its best, the dark comedy of Rescue Me captures moments that are so startling and true that you don't so much laugh as blanch and maybe blush in recognition. The set contains 19 episodes and a healthy dose of extra features that put the series to rest with honor. --Bret Fetzer
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect ending to a fabulous series,
By Susan Shepherd "fanatic" (Scarborough,, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rescue Me: The Complete Sixth Season (DVD)
This series about the NYFD post 911 has given us such fabulous, funny ,engaging characters that won't soon be forgotten...It has been wildly successful but all good things must come to an end...The end was handled very satisfyingly..although I didn't really want it to end at all... I have bought the entire last 2 seasons so that I can re live the moments when I feel myself in withdrawal...My daughter has the other seasons if I want an entire marathon...
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4.6 out of 5 stars (23 customer reviews) 17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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Amazon needs to change title of this set,
By Jason C. Harris "JasoninJapan" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Rescue Me: The Complete Sixth Season (DVD)
I spent a good 5 minutes searching for Rescue Me Season 7 before realizing that this set, marked simply "Season 6" in the Amazon selling line, does indeed also INCLUDE Season 7, the final season.The show of course is superb, and well worth the investment of time and money. Amazon needs to change the title of this set to reflect the fact that it includes BOTH Season 6 and Season 7. 38 of 53 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great TV Series,
By Sally "A Reader" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Rescue Me: The Complete Sixth Season (DVD)
I would watch this show from time to time with no consistency. Each time I saw it I like it but failed to follow up and watch more. After reading several reviews from fans of the show, I decided to purchase the series. OMG! What a great investment. I loved it and still do. Well developed characters that you can easily feel as though you "know" them. Sad to hear it will end in 2011, but I understand. It has had a good run. LOVE IT.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Underrated show,
By Friedrich Wg Briesemeister - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Rescue Me: The Complete Sixth Season (DVD)
I do rarely write reviews (taste is a fickle subject anyway) but I feel strongly that this series has been highly underrated over it's seven seasons. It is for sure one of the most theatrical series ever written and in my opinion approaches a Shakespearean style in mixing the low comedy with the high tragedy. Add to the mix an excellent cast of actors surrounding Dennis Leary, it makes for compulsive viewing! Why this series never got the attention it deserves, will remain a mystery to me.
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