5/5 The Best
  by Passek
My alltime favourite show! All characters are awesome, stories funny as hell! How could ABC (?) not pick it up for more seasons???

5/5 The Most True to Life Police Series
  by Al Carra (Orlando, Fl)
There is no doubt in my mind that this was the best police series I have ever seen.
Every episode brought me back to the streets of New York in the Precinct I worked at. I identified with almost every situation portrayed in each episode and I knew some cop who fit that profile, whether it be the "Goomadas" on the side, the pill poppers or the alcohol drinkers. I'm sure this series touched home with every cop who has seen it. A truly phenomenal series!!!

5/5 One of the best TV shows ever
  by J. M. Lavigne (Buffalo, NY)
The only downside is that they cancelled it after a season and a half. This is an extremely funny, well-done show. Very much like Rescue Me.

Highly recommended.

5/5 I love this Series
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I am a german police officer, and this series shows the real police job as it is.
Real officers or detectives are not talking about weapons or about the weather. Cops are talking about girls, cars and having sex.
This series shows the real police life. Always trouble with the boss, less money for too much work. Always trouble with the wife, because you are never at home on time.
The actors are great and Denis Leary is very very good.
Buy it and watch it, you're gonna love it.

5/5 The Roots of Rescue Me
  by MotoJunkie
Before the huge FX hit of Rescue Me, there was "The Job". A show that had great potential but was cancelled because ABC just didn't have the vision of the appeal. Though cancelled, The Job was a great experimentation lab of portraying NYC's finest on ABC that evolved into portraying NYC's bravest on FX.

The Job stars Denis Leary as NYC detective Mike McNeil as a cop with typical drinking, smoking, self-medicating, and girlfriend/marriage issues. While out of the house, he manages to cope in rather "unorthodox" ways (i.e indulging in his vices) with his girlfriend on the side.

At work Leary is joined by many other cast members (Lenny Clarke, Adam Ferrara, and Diane Farr) that are recognizable from Rescue Me that makeup an absurd rag-tag bunch of detectives that take on some rather strange cases (involving anything from chasing a man in a wheelchair, and almost losing him, protecting movie stars Elizabeth Hurley and Gina Gershon, and spying on women using a telescope from evidence lockup). I don't know if I laughed more at the humor itself or just thinking of the fact that ABC was owned by Disney by this time and they actually let this air...for TWO SEASONS!

This show is not based on typical police procedurals like NYPD Blue or Law & Order. The Job is more of a short comedy sitcom that dwells on the ridiculous events that seem to happen on a day to day basis for Det. McNeill and his squad, landing him in hot water with their Captain. The Job does not always end up with an arrest in every instance.

Special features includes standard gag reels, interviews, and promo commercials. Some select episodes also include a commentary for that particular episode. The commentary must have been done quite some time after the show and well into a season or two of Rescue Me, because creators Denis Leary and Peter Tolan bring Rescue Me into the mix of the commentary many times. So you probably won't get commentary that properly reflects the creators of this show as how this show ties into Rescue Me as a building block to the FX big leagues.

If you like Rescue Me, this one is worth it.