That's what he tells Entertainment Weekly. He would love to end the show by having half the cast die in the last episode.
"I'd love to do a fifth season where people think you're doing 13 episodes, and, in week 6, there's a giant fire and half the crew's dead and the show's over...you tune in and the &%$#@! things gone. I don't think they'll ever let us. But that would be great television."
And controversial television. Not that Rescue Me is a stranger to controversy. Just a couple of weeks ago was the now infamous episode where Leary's character raped (?) his ex-wife and she seemed to enjoy it (?). I put the question marks there because I don't watch the show, and people are split about what exactly happened.
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7-09-2006 @ 2:45PM
Lampbane said...
According to the standard definition, yes it was rape. He forced himself on her, she fought back. Eventually she just gave in and in the end, really didn't seem to have a problem with it. A lot of people are offended by it, but it's Tommy and Janet. It was in character, and well, I don't think either of them would have acted the way they did if it was anyone else. (Tommy would not have raped any woman but Janet, and Janet would not have accepted it the way she did if it was anyone but Tommy. Their relationship is screwed up like that.)
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7-09-2006 @ 2:47PM
bd said...
What is it with people "reporting" on shows they don't watch on this thing? It can't be that hard to shuffle this stuff.
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7-09-2006 @ 4:41PM
Sasquatch said...
Um... I watch more TV than most (and at the least read more about what is on that most...) and I have heard of this show. Is it on Bravo or something?
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7-09-2006 @ 8:09PM
Mike Davis said...
I'm getting really tired of the "I don't watch this show, but I'm going to comment on it" articles on this site.
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7-10-2006 @ 10:43AM
JAY said...
The "rape" episode..
While certainly jarring and shocking for TV, it isn't the 1st time a so called 'mock rape' has been portrayed. Also according to some couples this kind of experience is shared from time to time to spice things up. In the cinema, movies like 'A History Of Violence' portrayed this very effectivaly, and even Clint Eastwood's 'High Plains Drifter' many years ago. It's the kind of thing couples who enjoy sex on the edge enjoy, but it's easy to see how some womans rights groups and anti rape groups would have a problem with it. For me, it was simply great television.
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