The Smoke

I was a firefighter in the States for 18 years. Imagine my excitement to see such a high quality show where they clearly strived to make the calls and the station life so realistic. They nailed it on both counts! This show is very well crafted and the acting is superb. Everyone involved does an excellent job, especially Taron Egerton. This puts other modern-day series about the fire service to shame. My only regret is that there aren't more episodes. A very big "Thank You" to everyone who worked on this, you've successfully captured what it's like to work in the Fire Service, and you've done so with honor by showing that every person alive has their own demons to battle as well.

Honestly, I found this because of Taron Egerton and I wasn't planning on making it past episode one, but wow. Binged the whole thing. I'm not even a fan of medical/firefighter dramas, but what can I say, I loved it. Unique plot with suspense, excellent acting (especially between Asbro + Kev). All the characters had dimension, which is probably not easy to do with only 8 episodes, and it wasn't predictable, not at all. It's too bad there isn't more.

What can I say, well first off more please.

The Smoke is brilliant, great cast and good story lines. Asbo – Taron Egerton plays his part so well and its great to see the action between him and Kev – Jamie Bamber develop.

Realistic on screen scenes and shows the type of injuries our firefighters can suffer while doing their dangerous job. We have to remember that while most of us our running out of a burning building, they are going in.

Episodes 1, 6 and 7 are for me the best episodes, the scenes in the tunnel with the tanker were excellent.

Please do series 2, can't wait to watch what happens next.

When I saw the trailer for 'The Smoke' it looked promising. I remember watching London's Burning as a kid and when I became a firefighter the series was just ending and not to soon as it had become very unrealistic.

So a new British firefighting drama on Sky, this must be good as Sky have produced some cracking dramas. As a serving firefighter for 13 years now I want the public to see a good representation of the UK fire service but in a drama that will win awards. The fire service has gone through a lot of monumental changes since I joined and unless you are in the job or know someone who is then I feel the general public will not appreciate what happens.

'The Smoke' so far has been a disastrous representation of the UK fire service and makes me and other firefighters angry. The procedural errors and wholly inaccurate work environment really doesn't show the UK fire service in a good light, and makes us look like a bunch of incompetent buffoons.

Firefighters of the UK Fire Service are highly trained and highly competent professionals and whom strive to serve their local communities.

Unfortunately 'The Smoke' gets a big thumbs down and is a huge disappointment, at least 'London's Burning' had the backing and technical adviser support of the London Fire Brigade.

I am sorry but after watching the first episode, I just had to write a short review about this terrible inaccurate representation of the Fire Service. I am an active firefighter for over 25 years, and this kind of stuff makes me cringe.

I am so angry at the makers of this programme, it is complete rubbish. There are so many things wrong in this drama that I don't know where to start. I for one will not be looking at any more episodes.

I hope many more firefighters voice their concerns about this programme.

I could not even rate this as one star.

UK firefighter