Am I alone in being completely disappointed with the show this season? Next week is the Season Finale and there is nothing that needs to be resolved, no cliffhanger, nothing. I mean it is Rescue Me, so someone could always get trapped in a fire as the season ends, but who cares?


Lou: I am getting very tired of Lou's sexcapades. The nun, now this fat black chick Latrina with the whole food thing. It's completely tired and has been done about 10 times with him.

Sean: So tonight's episode he banged some chick. So he's over his marriage? He's pretending to be an alcoholic. I care, why?

Franco: His relationship crumbled way too fast, then the girl is dating someone, then she's headed to Chicago. Then she wants him to take care of her ******ed brother? He doesn't even see his daughter, but he'll do this?

Sheila/Wife/Baby: He sold the baby to Sheila. Then the wife got it back. But he kept the money. Now the wife has a job and is dating some guy that is supposed to be intimidating to Tommy but isn't hot and zzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Older daughter: Wow, dating the rock singer didn't work out. Pisses me off how he is just like, "here's a car, here's this", etc. You knew exactly where this was going, it went there, and provided nothing along the way.

I honestly cannot think of one interesting storyline that is leaving me wondering how it will resolve. The show went from my favorite current TV show, up there all-time, to subpar over the course of half a season.

Is everyone else still enjoying the show as usual, or is this pretty much how everyone feels?

i stopped watching last season..used to love it

I'm sort of in the same boat as you, but I have been going out every Wednesday this summer so I have to watch it either on Friday or Sunday. I have missed a couple episodes, but I don't think they were very important. I did think the shows that involved the Chief were very good, but other than that, it has been very subpar. It used to be a huge deal if I missed a show, but now it doesn't seem like that big a deal. It's really hard to top the story lines and outrageousness of the past seasons. (I missed tonight's episode)

I didn't read the OP or responses, just the subject line, because eventually I plan on getting around to watching the last 5 episodes that I have sitting on my DVR. But yes, this used to be a show that I couldn't wait for Wednesdays for, but this season has been so bad that I was considering making a post asking if it's worth it to finish it up.

So true. The first season was great, the second was OK, and now it's just ridiculous. Self-parody at this point.

Still, it's a great intro song.

Yeah, by far the worst season.... I thought it was cause I had such high expectations going in... but I guess not.

God does anyone ooooooze sex more than Gina Gershon though. Holy [censored] do I wanna [censored] the living [censored] out of her. She's not beautiful, but sex appeal she has in spades.

I thought the third season was also good. It's always had a perfect mix of comedy and drama, but this season I can't think of any instances of either (although I've only seen the first half), just situations that are so ridiculous I can't tell if it was supposed to be funny or serious. Character development sucks too, I never could figure out if that one Tommy stalker Sheila was dating was obsessed or jealous.

yeah she is unbelievably sexy, but her character is annoying. Oh, another female character that is smoking hot, obsessed with Tommy, has some weird sex thing, and acts all in control.

Isn't this just a hotter redo of the volunteer firefighter lady? and that was this season! ughh....

I'm not as down on it as you, but yeah this season isn't great. I will never miss an episode, though.

Even though it's lacking good plot, it still has it's share of great individual scenes. Sean absolutely cracks me up. I'm blanking on some, but there have been a few really cool scenes just from an artistic perspective. A couple weeks ago there was what looked to be a continuous shot of about 3 minutes straight with Tommy and Lou walking through a burned out building. I didn't spot any cuts in that scene - it was amazing. There was another one I liked earlier in the year when they all were in some building and the floor collapsed. It went to slo-mo and had a cool song playing over it.

Anyway, yeah, it's way down this year but I still love the characters. And I still want to bone Janet/Sheila/Gershon/Esposito.

CrazyEyez,

No love for Latrina?


Yeah I still watch it every week, look forward to it, and enjoy it. It's just that it used to not only have the funny little two minute segments, or the cool artistic fire scenes, or the talking to dead people, but there were storylines tying all those together. Maybe it is because his battle with alcohol and whatnot isn't burning on the surface as much as it used to. Usually shows build up to something for the season finale, but here, if they hadn't said "next week is the Season Finale", I would have thought this was the midseason lull and I'd be waiting for it to pick up steam.

Hopefully, Nip/Tuck moving to LA in October as well as Always Sunny starting next week will keep me hooked on FX til Rescue Me comes back next season and gets back in shape.

Everything about the show has become a weak caricature of itself. From Tommy's "Yeah-but-but-you know, I -ca-ca-can't let you, an-and the baby, right? Because i-i-it would...whatever" stammering schtick to the 'drama' that makes you want to just kill his wife and daughter to the far to obvious 'Tommy has something poignant to say' moments that used to at least be better woven into the story. It's all like Grindhouse. The dialogue for QT's section seemed like a good college writer trying to script dialogue like QT while falling just short enough to make it stand out. This season is exactly the same. It's as if they hired on a whole team of new writers who aren't as good as previous writers, but still trying to emulate the shows traits.

I agree 100% that this show has nosedived...but I'm guessing that I'll quickly forget how horrible RM was when the upcoming season of Prison Break debuts

I thought the beginning of the season was good---but the last 2/3 to 3/4 of this one has blown.

Agreed. This and Dexter are the only shows where I always watch the intro. Entourage is by far the worst as we all know.

I was actually thinking of making a thread about this.
IMO
Sopranos is hands down the best intro ever.
Followed by The Wire.
The two worst are Deadwood and The Shield imo.
The big problem with the season is pretty much every plot has happened already. Why can't Tommy have sex with someone who isn't batshit crazy one time.

Yeah that opening bass line still fires me up.

the west wing has a good intro song, esp the way it fires into it each time.

friday night lights theme is cool and relaxed.

californication has possibly the worst intro credits i've seen in years.

OMFG!!! This show has sucked so much ass this summer. I'm truly pissed off about this. WTF do you make ppl wait all summer for this piece of crap 4?

I'm really gettin tired of these lil shows gettin "popular" and then the new season comes and the plot(s) go nowhere or don't mean much. It's like the writers got snatched up elsewhere and replaced by the B-crew or something.

OP pegged everything wrong w/ this season, though I do love the autustic guy/brother to Franco's gf. Also, am I the only 1 who thinks that those other 2 white guys in the main crew just lift right out? I don't even really know their names unless some1 outright says it while they are talking to them in a scene.

A la 24 this past season, I can't even remember a goddammn thing that happend on it and that is one of my all time favorite pieces of entertainment.

I am in agreement over the intro sequence, that one I sing along to. Hypes me up a lil, LOL.

Agree with OP that this is a serious WTF season. I just caught up to season 12 online.

What is the deal with Tommy sneaking into buildings on fire and rescuing people, then scurrying away unseen? I must have missed something.

And at what point did Tommy go from a tough guy to a complete doormat?

I noticed that Tommy's long dialogue/rant before he jumped off the roof a few episodes ago seemed to be uncut, and thought it was pretty impressive.

This season hasn't been that great. For me, it has been too serious and not funny enough. Anything involving Janet and the baby just stresses the hell out of me... I'm glad they are kind of lightening up on that story a bit, although I haven't seen last week's episode yet.

Tommy's dreams and delusions stress me out as well... I watch this show primarily for the humor, of which there has been some slim pickins' this season.

I believe this happened immediately after his brother died. I don't know why, or if it was on purpose.