I watched the premiere of the FDNY drama "Rescue Me" tonight, and damn- it's good. Here I thought FX would never have another good show to go with "The Shield," after they've whiffed with the failed John Corbett vehicle "Lucky" (which missed the poker-on-TV fad by about a year), and the loathsome, unwatchable train wreck known as "Nip/Tuck."
Now even though Leary's standup is great, his acting choices have always been a bit sketchy to say the least, to the point where an entire Comedy Central roast was constructed around the joke that Leary had spent the last decade doing nothing but appear in bad movies. But based on the premiere, it's almost a shock how great "Rescue Me" is- capturing the post-9/11 moment like no work of pop culture since Spike Lee's "The 25th Hour."
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 21, 2004 11:18 PM