Fire Country

Hollywood writers seem to follow the same path. They begin a good show with lots of interesting action, but always veer off into fluff and silly dram to fill up time. A good story line with an original and little covered subject, wildland firefighting. A huge untapped potential, but ruined by the high school level melodramatic dialogue.

Viewers tune in for the fire action, not the silly high school drama. Stick to the fires. Do that and it'll run 12 seasons easy.

Keep dragging the show down with silly drama and soap opera dialog and one season tops. Writers please stick to the format that began with episode one.

I'm not sure why one can't employ a technical advisor for stuff like this. As a veteran firefighter/EMT/Training Officer this is pretty ugly. Hose stream patterns, use of SCBA, K-mart aluminum ladders, the list is too long to put here. If you don't care about accuracy, reality, or logic and are just into a bunch of personal relationship drama you might be ok with it. For anyone with a touch of science understanding, or anyone who has actually worked this kind of work, it is a disgrace. Accurate for this trade/profession? No, not even close. Hire someone who understands the scope of this work. It would make a much better show.

The actors are good but the way they fight fires is NOT accurate and you don't need to be a firefighter to notice that.

They talk while the fire gets everywhere, they are so slow. The way the rescue people doesn't make sense. You can literally see how they can release someone traped but they do some weird rescue that doesn't make sense at all. The ambulances are coming so late.

Also going to a house in fire without any mask and long hair out, we've seen in many fire fighters show that this is not how it works.

Besides that, someone with kidney disease drinks beer is the weirdest scene for me.

Casting error : Manny looks too young to be Gabriela's father. He's 48, she's 34 in real life! It's not plausible for me.

So I like the actors because they are good but the screenwriting should be really improved and collaborate with real fire fighters to write more accurate stories. Also about the other stories, the guy leaves when his sister is dead but he's in prison for 4y for trying to rob someone and he changes his name while there. The stories accuracy is like a soap, real telenovela but the actors are good so they make the inaccurate more credible with their good acting. They deserve better.

Well this show won't win any Emmys, and as many other reviews note, it's usually an unrealistic melodrama. So... its clearly not for everybody.

But,if you can overlook all that, and if you (like me) hated to see Thieriot leave Seal Team, and wanted him to play that exact, same character somewhere else, then your wish was granted.

I'll hang with it for awhile, cause it can be fun & entertaining. Also, it's predictable enough so it will be easy to catch up with, even if ya miss an episode or so.

I catch up while on my exercise bike. It does help distract me from the grind. Rather watch this than the news!

The show is decent enough don't get me wrong. Max is definitely the best aspect of the entire show so give credit where credit is due. But it really is nothing more than a soap opera for adults. The story line is ok and hopefully it will get better as things move forward. I will say some of the characters (actors) are absolutely terrible though. So bad in fact I have to fast forward while they are on screen. Kinda cringe at times no question about it. They simply are not believable and it kills the vibe of the show. Then the cgi of the fires is complete garbage. You would think they could step things up a few notches and get better cgi but nope.... Kinda cheesy. For all you Max fans this is definitely NOT Seal Team so you can't go into it expecting to watch Clay. That's probably why I have criticism about the show. Again the show is decent enough to watch but it could be sooo much better if they did some tweaking. Give it a try and the worse you could do is change the channel..