Denis Leary can indeed be funny and clever at times and is always likable, but this takes the cake! This show showed Leary's genius.The Job is set in New York. Leary plays Mike McNeil, a hard-nosed detective who is married, has a occasional drug problem, and has a girlfriend. McNeil has serious attitude. So much he's dripping in it. The precinct is filled with funny, interesting and likable characters besides McNeil. An excellent cast too. All of the episodes in this show are really funny and are addictive. The one liners in this show are everywhere. You'll be in stitches after hearing them and still laugh about them a few minutes after and then some. The cases the precinct deals with are something else to stripper nuns, a bathroom hostage situation, and more are over the top. This show was too good. Could have grown legs to last many more seasons. The Last Word: A great, fantastic show. I miss this show dearly. All episodes of this show are great. You get even belly-laughs...a lot. ABC made a huge mistake by giving this the ax. Too bad Leary did not revive the show for cable TV. Still, I give this show one of my highest of recommendations. Truly a one of a kind show.

...it's been three years, and I still miss this show. Watching the premiere of "Rescue Me" on FX last night only reminded me of how badly I miss Leary's NyQuil-addicted cop. No matter what else he does from this point on, I will always measure all shows by "The Job." It's funny how something so short lived can have such an impact - the show constantly comes up in conversations at work and when I'm out with friends. I've yet to find someone who didn't like the show, so I'm not sure how it is the network did.In the end, it doesn't really matter. Those of us who watched the show can appreciate it for what it truly was - Leary at his best.

I hate network TV idiots. The Job is one of the most entertaining TV series ever created, but the idiots pulled it just as it really got going. Denis Leary is hilarious! This series was a great platform for Denis Leary to play the p***ed off guy he does so well (probably 'cause it isn't acting, it's how he really is). The supporting cast was great. I laughed myself sick during every episode. Fortunately for me, I was smart enough to record them, so that I can actually watch them again. The show didn't run long enough to get syndicated release (of course, I'm making an assumption), so if you didn't see it when it ran, you may never get a chance to do so. It's just a shame.

How can anything with Denis Leary be bad? Per chance it has to do with the fact Leary's trademark (the fast talking Irish pottymouth) is short and just a way to garnish flavour in a main plot.(That's how he appears in most films.) "The Job" has no plot or concept, it's just the gazillionth-trillionth buddy-cop TV show and most of the stories don't even work on a humorous or climatic level. Mostly the show is geared by Leary's character as an anti-social cop who seems to cheat on his wife consensually, and the fact it's Denis Leary I would assume he and the writers would find that funny. Is it? Nope. I think the commenters below who revered this idiotic waste of time were just thinking what Denis Leary was thinking as the producer, that because he's in, it is automatically "hilarious".Find something else to watch on weeknights.