Lately I've been highly addicted to this show, and I've just got through (sadly) watching all 4 seasons and am eagerly anticipating the next.

The show revolves around Tommy Gavin (Dennis Leary) a cynical, egotistical self centered fire-fighter who's not as bad as he perhaps thinks of himself as. A former alchy and considered as a leader and role model amongst his crew. He has a death wish when fighting fires, or is simply a adrenalin junkie and takes daring risks on the job to rescue people in burning buildings (I think it gets him off). The show is a hybrid of comedy and drama. What I love about it is its grittiness, its lack of PC censorship as well. There's racial jokes, gay jokes, lots of seduction, boozing it up, chain smoking, eloquence in swearing, witty banter and just strange random events that life often throws at you.

The colorful cast of characters are also well crafted and believable (to some degree at least) you got a Puerto Rican playboy (Franco), the naive 'probie' Mike who's innocent and gullible and wonders if he's gay or not. The retard Shawn Garity is also one stupidly funny bastard, and 'Lou' the sensitive poet and budding wannabe intellect. While they bust each others balls and constantly argue over usually petty and stupid shit their dynamic is quite comical and entertaining to say the least.

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