Evaluation

Why Rescue Me is such a successful television series

Denis Leary's widely acclaimed television series has been showing on FX for seven successful season. This comedy drama is based upon Tommy Gavin, a New York City Firefighter who is going through the struggles of his stressful job, raising his children, and getting back his wife and love of his life. Much of this series is based off of events that occurred on 9/11 which the main character Tommy was a part of in losing fifty co workers, including his cousin who at times haunts him with other victims. It has been nominated for many Golden Globes, and has won five. There are many things this show has to offer to it's viewers, from its sexual comedy, to its series drama and everything in between. It gives you a little taste of the lifestyle and struggles of New York Firefighters, and their lives after 9/11. This she demonstrates the struggles of alcoholism, and the stress people go through to get sober and stay sober. Adding humor to situations like this make it interesting, and inspiring to watch making people really relate to these struggles in a way they have never seen before. There are other things, like the family matter between Tommy, his ghosts, whether it be his brother cousin father, or fellow firefighters haunting him, they all conveys real life messages to him. These messages range from alcohol problems, to over coming your fears. Denis Leary not only stars in this show, but is also a great stand up comedian. This leads many fans that follow his stand up, to begin watching this show, which shares much of the same dry humor as his stand up acts. Another great thing that adds to this show is the sports. Everybody knows Denis Leary is a huge hockey fan, which explains why there are many scenes of the New York Fire Department playing games against cops which almost always ends up in brawls. Bringing sports into the show gives it a little kick and adds to the real life resemblance to real life situations mixed in with humor. Other television shows are very dragged out and over acted and dramatic. The great thing about rescue me is the realization of all the scenes in each episode. This makes viewers really feel like they are part of the show, and its almost real life scenarios making it more interesting and keen to the eye. No other show gets as deep into the whole 9/11 issues, while at the same time paying resepct and tribute to the incident in a way others would not be able to do. This series can go on much longer than seven seasons and still be very successful and keep just as many viewers as it did in the past.

Project One Reflection

In finishing project one I believe that although I struggled a bit through the process I learned many new things and submitted a better paper than I thought going into it. I will say I do not believe I got into as much depth that was asked for the project. In the future I will take what I have learned from the readings, and experience i had with this project. During the duration of finishing the project I struggled a lot with really putting time into it and adding detail in analyzing A Mountain. These are things I will work on as the class goes on. Entering the next project I will most definately have more detail to whatever it is I will be writing, also I will be more time oriented throughout the whole process making sure i am really putting the time in the project that it needs. From what I have learned so far from this class and the first projectI will use for the rest of my duration at Arizona State, and I will be using it in the real world with whatever career I am in. Things like this are needed in the outside world no matter what career you choose. I will be altering my writing process a lot from what it has been recently by researching more, and also going the extra mile to really get on top of my writing, and wrting to my best ability.