FOX | 6 episodes | Drama
WHO'S IN IT? Jarrod Emick, Christine Elise, Miguel Sandoval, et. al.
SYNOPSIS: L. A. Firefighters follows the lives of the members of Fire Company 132 in
Los Angeles.
The show was burned by critics and real-life firefighters called for a
boycott of the show (they even held a press conference to denounce it),
saying it made them look unprofessional and that "just about every scene is
rife with sexual innuendo". The show was supposed to return in the fall and a further seven episodes
were produced but were never aired in the US.
VERDICT: The show opens with a baby in a crib - thick smoke pouring out of the
air vent, the building soon a raging inferno. Minutes later,
a fireman tackling the blaze, and not wearing proper protective equipment,
quips: "Is it me, or do you smell something burning?" (the baby does
survive, btw). The action scenes are good, but the dialogue between the
firefighters when they're not on the scene is just so clunky and cliché -
for example, asking whether a female colleague is gay, or delivering doubly
cliché lines such as:
"I've been protecting you since we were kids!"
"You always have to be a hero, don’t you, Jack?"
CANCELLED BEFORE ITS TIME? No, not a forgotten gem. I could barely get through the episode.
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