01:28 PM
TV Review of Rescue Me in New Yorker

While scanning the New Yorker, I found this tidbit, a review of Rescue Me, debuting on Wednesday on FX - watch this show! I've been excited about it, Denis Leary can be a really good actor in the right parts and this looks tailor-made for him. The New Yorker points out the promising things about the show as well as some rather ironic touches (Miller sponsoring the show's commercial free premiere, which has Denis' character falling off the wagon by drinking a Miller Lite) and all in all, it looks very good.

FX has a good track record with doing hard-edged solidly good shows - The Shield remains involving and well-written after its second season, Nip-Tuck (which my brother loves but I can't watch, plastic surgery *shudder*) is another sharp notch in FX's belt and Rescue Me looks to the third winner.

Next January, FX will have Thief, starring Andre Braugher, focusing on 12 days leading up to a heist he's planning and the various people involved in it. Braugher's another good actor with the right role, he did excellent work in Homicide and this new show sounds good for him.

So when you're bored by the reality tripe, insipid comedies and endless ripped-from-the-headlines crime dramas on the big three-four-five networks, switch over to FX and watch the kind of quality shows that used to be on the big networks.