September 13, 2005
One Finale and A Ton of Premieres
While it's all about the season premieres this month, there's one season finale tonight that we're excited about. Gothamist has really gotten into watching Rescue Me, catching up on this season by watching the first season DVD, and we've been loving it. Rescue Me is profane, racist, questionable, hilarious, sweet and tragic, with characters that seem like real people and less like stereotypes networks revert to because that'll make advertisers happy (probably why it's on FX). And it's shot in New York; Gothamist remembers reading how Denis Leary paid a Mr. Softee truck driver to stop playing the song...only to have more Mr. Softee trucks come to the location, looking for some easy money. The second season finale is at 10PM on FX and looks to be distressing and disturbing; we originally thought it'd be dark to counterbalance watching The Gilmore Girls, but New York magazine's John Leonard says that season premiere (tonight at 8PM on the WB) is "angry and sad."
Are there any season premieres you're excited for? And here's Zap2It's Fall Preview 05 package.
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I haven't been this unexcited about the fall TV season in years. Everybody Loves Chris will be really good, judging from the season premiere DVD that came with my EW last week, but other than that...everything seems kind of eh. I suppose I'll try out the Monday night comedies with the dueling Buffy/F&G castmembers. And I'll be downloading some shows like Prison Break, Lost, and Veronica Mars, but I probably won't rush to do so (BitTorrent = poor man's Tivo). Plus, I still have a lot of unwatched TV-on-DVD, so...
OMG--I totally just ordered the first season of Rescue Me on Netflix not thirty minutes ago. I'm so in love with that show. I don't have cable anymore, so I can't watch it the regular way, but the little bits I saw last year, plus last week's episode that I saw at a friend's were killer. It's like an HBO show on regular cable. They said "dick"! Twice. Not to mention, they showed Denis Leary's ass in the series premier as he and his fuck buddy were going at it all over his house. I have such a fireman fetish and this show is the perfect fix. Oh, and I love Gilmore Girls. We're like TV soulmates.