The payoff is a huge and telling visual howler, summarizing the entire plot with a blithe indifference that will inevitably mirror the audience’s.
Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, but in the case of Rescue Me’s final season, there isn’t even smoke.
The Skeptic awkwardly suggests Poltergeist as a 12-step self-help program.
Rescue Me is a series at war with its own worst impulses.
More raucous character study than Backdraft-style heroics; good but not quite great examples of either.