When Rescue Me's rookie firefighter (caught reading The Tao of Pooh) is told "a firehouse is no place for sensitive souls," it's hard to argue.
The sentiment just as easily applies to Rescue Me itself (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET), and to FX dramas in general. This is extreme TV — raw and brutally naked in its adult emotions, language, humor, sexuality and violent rage. It's also magnificently entertaining, if you have the spine for it.
The third season of firehouse drama Rescue Me upholds FX's bold tradition of living on the edge, juggling dark tragedy and raunchy comedy without seeming sentimental or exploitative.
Much credit goes to star and cocreator Denis Leary as Tommy Gavin, a self-destructive train wreck of an antihero. How much more will he be asked to suffer? Last season he lost his only son in a hit-and-run, and his uncle is in jail
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