Rescue Me
Rescue Me Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | ||
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| S1 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.7 | ||||||||||
| S2 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.5 | 8.1 | 8.6 | 7.9 | 8.9 | 9.2 | ||||||||||
| S3 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.4 | 8.9 | 8.5 | ||||||||||
| S4 | 7.8 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.5 | 8.0 | ||||||||||
| S5 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.7 | 8.6 | |
| S6 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.5 | |||||||||||||
| S7 | 8.0 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 9.1 |
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"Grief and gallows humor sharing the same firehouse"
Rescue Me follows Tommy Gavin, a New York City firefighter still hollowed out by 9/11 and haunted, literally, by ghosts of colleagues and family. It mixes firehouse camaraderie and crude, macho humor with sudden gut-punches of grief, addiction, and self-sabotage. The tone swings hard between raunchy sitcom banter and real anguish, often in the same scene. Denis Leary anchors it with a performance that's abrasive, funny, and genuinely wounded. It's messy and uneven at times, but when it connects, it captures trauma and dark humor colliding in a way few shows attempted.
Denis Leary's raw, funny, self-destructive lead performance anchoring the whole show.
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