After last week's kick ass (literally) showdown between Tommy and his brother (Johnny, who has been sleeping with Tommy's soon to be ex-wife Janet), you had to think that things were gonna slow down for our gang this week on Rescue Me. Well, you'd be right and wrong. Sure, no one's head was put through a car window this week, but that doesn't mean that it was an uneventful week over at Ladder 62. One of our boys became an official kept man and another was keeping a man all to himself. Sean took one step closer to either a) shitting himself around Tommy or b) telling him he was dating his sister. And poor Lou has begun to really threaten CrazyTaty for the title as least stable person on the show. So yeah, no one threw their ex-wife onto the hood of a car, but damn it, this was one hell of an hour of television. Oh and for those of you who are waiting for the inevitable gloat about my predictions for Probie last week - you're right! I am going to gloat! Check out why after the jump!
There he is, our buddy Lou, kicking off the hour with a little hangover vomiting in the firehouse bathroom. Incidentally this is how I start off most mornings at work, so I can't really judge the big guy. The Capt. bumps into him doing the old rinse and run and tells him to take the day off. I've been catching up on seasons past of this show, and I've got to say that I love what they are doing Kenny/"Lou"'s character. Well, not really cause I miss the lovable old bastard, but it takes some big ol' balls to take one of the most endearing characters on your show and send him down a shit spiral. Lou says that he's just coming down with something, but he'll power through it. The Capt. also asks him about the loan they had talked about earlier. Lou tells him he ain't got the dough, and Capt. starts to bitch about needing this money for his poor, Alzheimer's stricken wife. As has become practice with Lou he decides to take the high road and flips out on his boss.
In the first of several awkward/hysterical encounters of the episode, Sean is walking into the firehouse, while Tommy is smoking a cigarette outside. The whole non-smoking thing is still going on in the firehouse, but I guess no one wants to mention it to Tommy, because, well, last week, he almost killed his own brother. I'd probably stay out of it too. Tommy asks Sean if he was "humping around" last night, and Sean, starts to stutter and stammer like a broken lawn sprinkler about only humping the one chick. Sean makes an ill advised segue into the Sopranos-style beating that Tommy gave his brother, and Tommy just explains that this is how things get settled in his family. They're Irish. Sean attempts to bond over this fact, but Tommy cuts him off. His family is real Irish, not this new generation of weepy Irish. They don't talk about their feelings, they find out who did what, and they beat the shit out of that person. While drinking a beer. And eating a potato. Ugh. I hate stereotypes.
At the Lovely Old Ladies motel, Susan Sarandon is doing her best impersonation of Susan Sarandon from Bull Durham, having just seduced Franco ALLLL. NIGHT. LOOOONG. Franco drops the bombshell that he has a daughter, and much to his chagrin, Susan isn't horrified. She's way to smart for that. She is 80 after all. She knew both the Roosevelts. She's seen it all, buddy. She turns the tables on him, and says that she'd like to meet his daughter some time. Advantage: Susan.
Capt. Jerry is on a laundry date with Ellis Grey, who is a little sick of his distance from her lately, and reassures the Capt. that their "friendship" isn't wrong. Sure his wife, Jeannie, has Alzheimer's but Ellis herself has Alzheimer's for the whole season on Grey's Anatomy and you don't see it ruining her social life. Capt. Jerry tells her it's not his Alzheimer's afflicted wife; it's the fact that he has to go pay a visit to his brother-in-law, who hates him. What!?!?! Who could hate Capt. Jerry!?!?! Whatever the case, his wife keeps asking about her brother, Bud, and Capt. Jerry knows the guy has a right to know about his sister.
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Comments (8)
I said it last week, and I'll say it again...
I think the Probie-Gay storyline is great. And I'm not just saying that becuase I am a homo.
I just think it's an awesome move to show that not all gays are flaming queens addicted to crystal meth. Some are just simple-minded bear enthusiasts.
1 of 8 | Posted by nate
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Posted on June 19, 2006 1:43 PM
I think with all of the other storylines going they had to think of something for Probie. I don't think he is gay though. Maybe I am in denial. They had to make him somewhat interesting.
2 of 8 | Posted by tvismylife
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Posted on June 19, 2006 2:31 PM
According to this week's Ausiello report, next week Probie and his roommate are going to be re-enacting Vincent Gallo and Chloe Sevigny's "love" scene from "The Brown Bunny". Sweet!
I don't think Probie is gay exactly, I think he's just open and looking for companionship wherever he can find it. Whether or not he's actually gay, I really like the storyline.
3 of 8 | Posted by Pie
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Posted on June 19, 2006 3:53 PM
This is prolly the BEST show on TV. Each character is real -- they have some form of personal damage or some tragic life and yet they keep going.
I hope that Probie DOES turn out to be gay. It would be an interesting and undertold story -- a gay firefighter. Yeah, he's 'simple minded' and just looking for some comfort and compassion (emotions sorely lacking, but in a comical way in the firehouse) so if his lumberjack roomie is the one who gives it to him ... it would be a great story.
4 of 8 | Posted by floopeygirl
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Posted on June 19, 2006 7:08 PM
Thanks for recapping this show! I LOVE Rescue Me.
Probie is totally gay.
That story line doesn't interest me very much......although I also loved the scene with Lou and Probie fighting over the Tao of Pooh. Tommy ignoring Janice....awesome...stupid ho Janice really expects that she can make child care arrangements by leaving messages and without actual confirmation? What a retard.
Tommy should have sang "Asshole" to her.
5 of 8 | Posted by sweetleaf
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Posted on June 20, 2006 11:35 AM
Did anyone else's DVR cut off the last few minutes of the past 2 shows? I missed Johnny's beating and this Probie thing. I was pissed. I don't know what I'd do with out the recaps. Thanks
6 of 8 | Posted by Miss Lippy
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Posted on June 20, 2006 4:57 PM
As of 10 minutes ago, I'm done with this show. Tommy Gavin has gone very far on borrowed time. He has finally done the unforgivable. I don't even want to know why Leary took it there.
7 of 8 | Posted by Lady J
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Posted on June 20, 2006 9:09 PM
I've thought that Probie would evolve to being gay at the end of the first season. I actually thought that Garrity and Probie would end up experimenting. Congrats to Leary and writers for taking Probie this route. I know many gay firefighters, police and athletes who are so afraid to be "out" because of the repurcussions.
On a side note, I never expected Tommy to rape Janet. Yes, it was made to seem like it was revenge sex, anger sex, whatever. But in the final analysis it was rape. On the other side of the coin, however, what Tommy Gavin did was so typical of old-school Boston Irish Catholic behavior. He delivered as it would have in the real world. We may not like it. We certainly can voice our disapproval but at the same rate one must admit that this is pretty much what would happen in South Boston let alone New York City.
8 of 8 | Posted by Primus212
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Posted on June 21, 2006 8:20 AM