Rescue Me Wine
Original Air Date: Apr 21, 2009
Tom R. - Sr. Staff Writer
tom@thetwocents.com
Sometimes an obvious joke can have its advantages. You see it coming, there’s no real surprise, but like figuring out a mystery, yelling “I knew it!” is satisfying enough. Case in point in the week’s episode, as Mike decides to make his bar trendy by painting everything black. Even before the power failure, it’s a good bit.
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Sometimes an obvious joke can have its advantages. You see it coming, there’s no real surprise, but like figuring out a mystery, yelling “I knew it!” is satisfying enough. Case in point in the week’s episode, as Mike decides to make his bar trendy by painting everything black. Even before the power failure, it’s a good bit.
ReplyDeleteTommy practically sets a record here for sentence fragments, between trying to talk his daughter into having sex with Shawn, and trying to explain the wine smell on his clothes before Valerie throws him out. The first is an attempt to sabotage the relationship after the opening dream sequence. The latter happens after his date with Genevieve.
Balancing out the laughs is the scene where Genevieve tapes Chief Feinberg. Instead of talking about Ground Zero, he tells a story about his war days. He recalls an anti-Semitic soldier who died in the line of fire. He later found out that the man was Jewish. This made him realize the danger of religious zealotry. He ends the session by asking, “What’s a couple more towers?” Powerful moment from an underused character.
Ground Zero resurfaces through the episode as Mike decides he cannot stomach any more of Franco’s conspiracy theories. The two come to blows in the kitchen. By the end of the episode, however, Mike opens up to Franco about how the attacks made him want to be a firefighter. He also confesses to him that he feels uneasy about “the bad guys”, feeling even worse when he realizes the bad guys might not be from somewhere else.
The weak point one again goes to Sheila, who continues her dramatic therapy. She complains that the therapist sounds nothing like Tommy during their role play. He decides to accompany her to the firehouse to meet him. When she tries to pass him off as a friend from her cooking class, Tommy sees right through the scam. It’s a rare case where the writers don’t know what to do with her. The fire, the emotional volatility and the sexuality are gone. At this point, she might as well be blonde. Ah, well…Something’s gotta break sooner or later.
Damn…I was trying to work in the word “inkling”.
So there’s my two cents. What were your favorite moments? Drop in your comments or send me a note at: tom@thetwocents.com .