I really like the show very intense and a good cast. If you want reality then listen to a police scanner or watch the news. Too many haters. It's not a documentary or a reality tv show so as long as you go into it looking for entertainment I don't see how you couldn't be pleased.

Great show with action, drama and a story line. Watch with an open mind and with out all the pick apart stuff that some are doing. For the the viewers who like to watch a show for what it is. It's a great one to watch. Yes in real life some of this stuff doesn't happen. But remember it's a tv show n yes the actors are very good with each of their roles.

I would never go out of my way to watch this sort of thing because they always tend to go down the path of 'Let's get good looking dudes in uniforms so we can attract bored female viewers'... And yes, my wife made me watch this. I couldn't even get through the first episode! It was so cliched! Young hottie rookie firefighter (with shirt on for a change) takes a fire truck out so he can have sex with a woman in it's cab. And this is pretty much the first scene. He gets no more than a slap on the wrist. So, straight away, we have the hook for said female viewers. Next, we have the serious female, black police Sgt, complete with serious sunglasses, being well, serious. Add to that the seemingly compulsory homosexual and a fractured homelife and we now have typically a generic tv show. Except this one will be bound to have lots of explosions and over the top action scenes. Not that I'll be watching but I will predict that there will be a love triangle, a marriage discintergrating, the hottie getting his shirt off a multitude of times, an even more hot dude as competition and to keep women viewers happier and a gay story arc... PS: How did the rescuers know the sex of a baby trapped in a waterpipe before they exposed it and no one claimed any knowledge of it? Not only are the rescuers totally amazing but psychic too. PPS: I appear to be right about this show needing to appeal to women audiences as they are the majority of commenters who are giving it praise. Everyone else hates it.

I like some of the acting, but ease up on the storylines. At least have them be more realistic. And why does every new show have to have a gay couple in it? I'm not homophobic, but I'm sick of seeing a gay couple in everything I watch these days. I don't need to have the addenda shoved down my throat.