![]() ![]() ![]() The show is just airing over here in the UK, so I am keen to see how it finishes. I guess because he has the whole New York, tough guy image to uphold, he doesn't want to show any signs off weakness as it were by divulging information of his problems. ![]() He does not realise that post trauma stress and general stress are normal things that we as humans experience. He somehow feels it's wrong and is unable to tell anyone the truth about what he is going through. The acting is really good and I love how the show centres around a guy who is obviously going through post traumatic stress. However, I took to this show and I think it's brilliant. This show is really good I'm not really into the whole fire-fighting thing, like how most kids want to be a fireman or a policeman when they grow up. And, for those people who don't know any firemen, go adopt one or better yet, go volunteer. I've been waiting for a show like this to come along because I practically grew up in a firehouse, and I know so did a million other kids in America. There's a million stories in the Naked City, and "Rescue Me" could tell them all. I love that the moral center keeps shifting underneath their feet, just as in real life. Leary's character shows the dark side, and his 'secret evil plan' instead of whitewashing every guy as a hero, as competent or even, sober. " If you don't' come to our fundraiser, we ain't coming to your fire" )- you see real men, some of them boneheads, some of them rocket scientists, but always for real. So, if you ever have an opportunity to go to a 'wetdown' or a fundraiser (See Bayhead NJ crabfest in Aug. It's authentic, it's gritty, not pretty, but then, you don't know firemen - they're running into burning buildings when everybody else is running out, and are a breed unto themselves, an essence that Leary and Co. I heard about this show and since I come from NY/NJ and from an Irish catholic family of firemen, of course, I'm watching this. ![]()
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