Rescue Me: Complete Fourth Season (2008, DVD)

The strange, rambling hybrid that is Denis Leary turns out to be perfect for the strange, rambling hybrid that is “Rescue Me," a dramedy about firefighters that shouldn't work as well as it does, but it does. 

The plots are dense, chaotic and swift, every bit as wired as Leary himself. The show’s energy and its fearlessness are its hallmarks.

Here, as firefighter Tommy Gavin, a man with more problems than he or anyone around him can bear, Leary never has been better, particularly since in this season, his character is under investigation for the fire that ended the last season.

What that creates for Tommy isn’t just trouble, but oddly enough, also sexual impotency.

Grade: B