# Chicago Fire - new TV series

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-fire-new-tv-series/637396>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 11, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-fire-new-tv-series/637396 "2012-10-11T05:52:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-fire-new-tv-series/637396/1 "2012-10-11T05:52:01Z")

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Honestly, I am probably the biggest Chicago chauvinist on the face of the earth. You set a TV show in my home town, and I am likely to love it. Even if it sucks.

I thrilled to “Crime Story” in the eighties; still have the DVD complete set and watch it regularly. I set my DVR to record “My Boys” a few years ago, despite its shortcomings, and I watched it religiously. The Bob Newhart show back in the day goes without saying. And I practically jizzed in my trousers watching “The Chicago Code” last year, and wept openly when it was cancelled.

That said, tonight I watched the premier episode of “Chicago Fire.” Wow. Color me underwhelmed. It isn’t a bad show, mind you, but it is totally, completely, and utterly lacking any reason to watch it. Just another bland, obvious, and totally non-innovative drama about an obviously but prosaically exciting profession. Other than a very brief cameo by the Tiny Dancer himself (Rahm Emanuel), and frequent glimpses of the Trump Tower on the horizon, it might as well have been set in Dubuque.

I don’t think I’ll watch episode two. Hell, “The Mob Doctor” was more compelling. Maybe that hasn’t been cancelled yet?

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**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-fire-new-tv-series/637396/2 "2012-10-11T06:04:19Z")

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I didn’t find it very compelling either.  
Who knows, maybe they can save it.

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**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2012, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicago-fire-new-tv-series/637396/3 "2012-10-11T14:57:53Z")

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I’ll give it a go again, hopefully it will find its feet.