Fireman's Carry
I've been haphazardly following the fx summer series, Rescue Me, but recent discussion on the Dimensions Weight Board about the show's young fireman in lust with a sexy fat woman subplot re-affixed my attention on this series. The "probie" fireman, Michael Lombardi's Mike Siletti, has had a number of short-term sexual encounters in the show’s first season – with an older woman and a big-sexual couple, most notably – but this seems to be a longer running 'un: the season finale ended with Mike & Teresa still together. Don't know name of the attractive actress playing Teresa, unfortunately, but she showed an admirable willingness to be filmed in a teddy.
I've got mixed feelings about the bulimia they've given the character, though it has brought about at least one believable dramatic moment. In the penultimate episode, she shows Mike a photo of herself at a pre-binge-&-puke weight – and though we're not allowed to see this pic, it's clear that she's substantially larger than her current mid-sized self. Siletti, after looking at the photo, makes a comment that perhaps her bulimia isn't such a bad thing, after all. As he delivers this pronouncement, you can just see the disappointment wash across Teresa's face.
This being a Denis Leary co-creation, it was probably inevitable that the final episode would include a parallel subplot where our group of sturdy FDNYers have to cart a bedridden super-sized fat woman out of her apartment (at one point I was reminded of the 70's paramedic comedy, Mother, Jugs and Speed) – with predictable fat jokes about both the dead woman and Teresa a-flyin'. Points to scripters Leary and Peter Tolan for later including a moment when Mike rails against Tommy and the rest of the firehouse for making fun of his plus-sized girlfriend, though. And Teresa's blunt descriptions of the long-term effects of her eating disorder were also welcome. Looks like we'll have to wait 'til next season to see if the probie actually rouses enough to say, "I've been thinkin' about this bulimia bizness. . ."
I've got mixed feelings about the bulimia they've given the character, though it has brought about at least one believable dramatic moment. In the penultimate episode, she shows Mike a photo of herself at a pre-binge-&-puke weight – and though we're not allowed to see this pic, it's clear that she's substantially larger than her current mid-sized self. Siletti, after looking at the photo, makes a comment that perhaps her bulimia isn't such a bad thing, after all. As he delivers this pronouncement, you can just see the disappointment wash across Teresa's face.
This being a Denis Leary co-creation, it was probably inevitable that the final episode would include a parallel subplot where our group of sturdy FDNYers have to cart a bedridden super-sized fat woman out of her apartment (at one point I was reminded of the 70's paramedic comedy, Mother, Jugs and Speed) – with predictable fat jokes about both the dead woman and Teresa a-flyin'. Points to scripters Leary and Peter Tolan for later including a moment when Mike rails against Tommy and the rest of the firehouse for making fun of his plus-sized girlfriend, though. And Teresa's blunt descriptions of the long-term effects of her eating disorder were also welcome. Looks like we'll have to wait 'til next season to see if the probie actually rouses enough to say, "I've been thinkin' about this bulimia bizness. . ."
posted by Wilson B. at 10:55 AM
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FYI: ashley atkinson is the girl playing the large love interest on Rescue Me, she also finished a successful run of LaBute's "Fat Pig" this winter.
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