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‘Chicago Fire’ is Hot Stuff

What does Lady Gaga’s six- pack boyfriend do when he’s not posing in the buff with her?

He’s cutting people out of cars, saving women and children from burning buildings and secretly seething with submerged rage and introspective angst.

Or at least that’s what Taylor Kinney aka Lt. Kelly Severide — one of the best-looking actors on TV — does in Dick Wolf’s newest uniformed drama, “Chicago Fire.”

OK, don’t get all up in my face for poking fun at Gaga’s boyfriend. I mean seriously? The man’s dating a woman who wears meat.

At any rate, “Chicago Fire” is Dick Wolf being, well, Dick Wolf.

He knows how to make procedurals, and he knows how to make us care about characters who we should hate just because they’re beautiful.

Tonight, we meet the men of a Chicago firehouse and the gorgeous EMS women who work beside them.

The fact that the medics — when they aren’t busy putting needles into people’s hearts — look like escorts is just this side of absurd.

The ensemble company includes Lt. Matthew Casey (Jesse Spencer), a hunk with a heart who only wants to be a dad. I can hear the women of America in the background right now yelling, “Pick me!”

Newbie Peter Mills (Charlie Barnett) comes from a long line of firefighters and is willing to be the butt of everyone’s jokes until he proves himself.

Chief Wallace Boden (Eamonn Walker) is the guy who walks around giving orders.

Then, of course, there are the on-site EMS women, Gabriela Dawson (Monica Raymund), who has a crush on the married Casey and a secret desire to be a doctor (which is what Casey’s wife already is — and why she’s too busy to have the babies that Casey wants). And her partner, the equally gorgeous Leslie Shay (Lauren German), who happens to be every firefighter’s fantasy (and it will stay that way since she’s a lesbian).

Wolf is not about to break any new ground here. He’s just creating the kind of TV that people watch: brave men with six-packs saving the world — and in the process attempting to repair their marriages.

I just wish-to-hell that Wolf would stop using these indistinguishable beauties who pretend to be working jobs that women who look like them don’t do. I can’t say the same for the men in this show because, really, have you ever looked inside a NYC firehouse? I swear those firefighters all look like they fell out of the Ford Models Web site.

What I miss here is Wolf’s old brilliant penchant for oddball casting.

In case you were wondering, no, there’s not a Jerry Orbach, Richard Belzer, S. Epatha Merkerson or Sam Waterston in the immediate Chicago area.

It would have been more compelling if there were.