Rescue Me: "Blackout"   Rescue Me   · S6 / E5  It's another week
of drinking and depression on Rescue Me. Let's see how they
handle the fallout from last week's asinine twist!  Scene 1: Oh,
that Tommy! He's drinking again! He shows up at a bar with his
whiskey bottle and cigarette out, and the bartender is all, "You
can't smoke in here, and since it's a bar and we make money from
selling people alcohol, it might be nice of you to not BYOB, if
you don't mind." Then he and Tommy call each other a bunch of
names and Tommy goes into the back to use the bathroom. And it's
there that he meets his dead cousin, who berates him about what
a waste his life has been since Sept. 11. The two get into a
scuffle. It's nice to have Jimmy hanging around as Tommy's
conscience still, but this is a conversation it feels like the
show has had before. The biggest problem with Rescue Me's run as
a show was that its central story arc—a completely messed up man
cleans up his life—really only provided for MAYBE three seasons
of storyl