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20 June 2010
True Blood: Bad Blood (Season 3, Ep. 1; 2010)
Season 3 opens with the apparent fact that everyone from Bill to Eric to Sam to blah have done tons of abdominal exercises between the time Sookie ran into the bathroom to mull her future at the end of Season 2 and the time she ran out of bathroom to discover Bill had abandoned her. [...]
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29 March 2010
Rescue Me: Kansas (2004)
Rescue Me‘s central support system for Tommy Gavin is that of his family, and his wife is drifting away from him, saying he is no longer connected to reality. His children are growing up, etc. The wife wants to move away, to get out of the neighborhood of firefighters, where 9/11 has had a huge [...]
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28 March 2010
Rescue Me: Gay (2004)
Rescue Me‘s theme this week is gayness in all aspects of the firefighters lives. Tommy sees gays everywhere – his cousin’s widow is being a little too intimate with a woman, there’s a “geek” vs. “gay” diatribe about Tommy’s godson, and some hilarious moments with Sean and Mike, the two youngest firefighters in the house, [...]
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27 March 2010
Rescue Me: Guts (2004)
Rescue Me showed up on the queue under the mistaken impression that it was the firefighter show that filmed its headquarters in the Badge Building. Turns out that was a show from 1999 called Third Watch. This, rather, is a post-9/11 acerbic take on firefighters. It isn’t necessarily directly about PTSD, though it’s obvious a [...]
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18 February 2009
Freaks and Geeks (1999-2000)
It’s kind of a shame that more often than not a show this good languishes in obscurity until its inevitable cancelation. But saying that is an easy thing, looking back. I’m not sure I’ve ever been invested in a TV show on the brink and been forced to reconcile that disappointment with what’s-not-coming. Here, we’re [...]