# Rescue Me: Should I bother watching the last two seasons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173 "2011-09-30T17:11:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/1 "2011-09-30T17:11:39Z")
I’m clearing out my DVR because I need space. I’m taking a trip and won’t be able to watch all my regular shows. I’ve got the last two seasons (approx. 20 hrs) of Rescue Me that I haven’t watched. Should I take the time to watch the episodes or can I simply delete them and not give a care? Don’t get me wrong. I like Leary, and the first few seasons were great. But it’s just… going… I don’t know where. Word on the street is that it isn’t worth it. I hear it just gets over the top as the series ends. I stopped being interested real soon after the nephew joined the team. In [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=518783&highlight=rescue), the last opinion was once Janice set Tommy’s house on fire and how that was just… enough. My current opinion, just off the hip is that I can dump them and move on with my life. I’d rather make sure I’ve got disc space for Community, Big Bang and other shows I like. Opinions? Please spoiler the big news. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/2 "2011-09-30T19:20:04Z")
I watched them all hoping that they could recapture the magic of the first few seasons. What I always liked about RM were the unpredictable plot twists and the danger. For whatever reason, the later seasons became boring. Perhaps this was intended to reflect Tommy’s sobriety. I don’t know… I think you can dump them. Maybe watch the finale to see how it ends. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/3 "2011-09-30T20:04:20Z")
Watch the last two episodes, they’re tied together and a good ending to the series. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/4 "2011-09-30T20:58:01Z")
Anything earthshattering happen that would need to be explained between the end of last season and the last two episodes, or not worth it? I’ve seen every episode but this season’s, but don’t feel so committed to it that I’d feel bad taking a Rosie Ruiz to the finish line. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2011, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/5 "2011-09-30T22:44:14Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > Anything earthshattering happen that would need to be explained between the end of last season and the last two episodes, or not worth it? If there is, it pales in comparison to the finale. Then again, I’ve hardly seen any of it since the hiatus caused by the writers’ strike and the finale because I’d forget it was on. Yeah, I missed the penultimate episode and feel like I shouldn’t have. ---
**Author:** ![quixotic78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ab097/32.png) [@quixotic78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quixotic78)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/6 "2011-10-01T03:57:47Z")
I don’t get the people who ran this show. The show had Tommy’s fire house life, which was filled with fun, funny, memorable, and authentic characters and exciting firefighting scenes – totally unlike anything else on television, in other words – and Tommy’s personal life, which was cliched, annoying, boring, and infuriating – like 90% of the drama shit out there. In the first two or three seasons, the balance was fairly even, maybe even favoring the fire house a little bit. So what do they do in the last four seasons? Go with the guys on the crew and the awesome TV, or the drama shit that’s like everything else out there? The latter, of course, in like a 5-to-1 ratio! I wish I had never started watching the series, which is sad because I really enjoyed it at the beginning. And I thought the final season was pretty terrible, too, only “good” relative to seasons 4-6. Not even [Lou’s speech in the finale](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ke23o7rCfc) – which admittedly was amazing and still gives me goose bumps – could salvage it for me. Up your ass, Denis Leary. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/7 "2011-10-03T13:19:24Z")
Well. I see I’m in the minority. I loved every single episode, down to the very end. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/8 "2012-01-17T22:53:07Z")
I’m after bingeing on the show the last while. Just about to start watching the fourth series. Although some episodes are patchy it has been very entertaining in the first three. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2012, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rescue-me-should-i-bother-watching-the-last-two-seasons/598173/9 "2012-01-18T18:42:27Z")
I found myself having several episodes on the DVR from the last season and having no desire to watch them after several weeks, which is rare for me. I wound up watching the very last episode and deleting the rest of them. The problem I think was that threere were too many subplots that I thought missed the mark, like Non-black Sean and his gf with the stinky pussy. The previous season I tought was pretty good. And it had that great scene where Tommy talks his entire sober family into drinking again on the spot.