FX: The Series is loosely based on the two F/X feature films starring Brian Brown and Brian Dennehy. It is the story of special effects wizard, Rollie Tyler, played by Australian actor Cameron Daddo, and his friend and coworker, Angie Ramirez (Christina Cox). Together, they use their genius in special effects to create movie magic and to help the police solve difficult crimes. During the first season, veteran actor, Kevin Dobson, played the role of Leo McCarthy, a detective in the NYPD and Rollie's long-time friend. Together, they would use special effects and canny police work to bring down criminals who might otherwise have escaped justice. Other important reoccurring characters were McCarthy's partner Francis Gatti (Jason Blicker), actress Lucinda Scott (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Captain Marvin VanDuran (Richard Waugh).

At the opening of the second season, Leo was tragically killed in a bomb explosion. The new character of Mira Sanchez (Jacqueline Torres), a detective in the Internal Affairs division of the NYPD, was introduced. Mira was transferred out of Internal Affairs, but continued as a detective in the department. In time, she became a friend to Rollie and Angie, who continued to help the police on cases.

After the end of the second season, it was announced that the show would not be renewed. Being a syndicated show, FX was a victim of bad and repeatedly changed time slots and television stations that failed to air the show on a regular basis.

After receiving the news of the show's cancellation, the fans attempted to change the decision through letter-writing campaigns and petitions, but, as is usually the case, these efforts were in vain. In the months that followed, several things happened: one, fans who had been attending the official FX forum gradually began drifting away; two, quite a few new people visited the forum and decided to keep coming; and, three, a huge fan fiction writing movement began, due primarily to the surprising and very controversial final episode of the series. The enormous amount of fan fiction helped to keep the forum very active and encouraged still others to try their hand at writing.

Unfortunately, a second blow was dealt the FXers. Rysher Entertainment, distributor of FX: The Series, announced that the official forum was being taken down. Given only a few days notice, this could have been disastrous if it wasn't for the fact that one of the fans had set up his own forum a few months earlier and invited everyone to come there. So it was that in September of 1998, a mass exodus from the official forum to the new one was made. As it turned out, Rysher chose to delay the shutting down of the forum for several weeks, but everyone who had come over to the new one decided to stay there. The official forum was taken down in October 1998. Several people, for one reason or another, chose not to go to the new forum, and therefore, were "lost" when the official site was removed.

Sadly, less than a year and a half after the move, the FX forum suffered a sudden and irrecoverable crash. Fans quickly set up a new forum, but because of the suddenness of the demise of the previous one, some fans were lost by the wayside. Since then, the forum has been moved twice more. With its newest incarnation, the fans once again have a fan-build and maintained forum that they hope will be around for many years to come.

When the official forum was removed, so too was the entire official FX Web site (though it remained available through the Search feature on Rysher's main Web site for several months). Before this happened, fans made copies of all the series information, photos, videos, and other things that were on the site. Using these things, as well as their own artwork and info gathered from other sources, new fan-owned Web sites came into being. There presently exists Web sites that contain virtually everything the official site had--and much, much more.

Among the sites that have come into being since the show's cancelation, is a large fan fiction archive where writers can post their stories for all to read. Also, an FX bible has been created that, when finished, will be an excellent source for FX information and trivia. Other media archives also exist that contain audio and video files.

In the months since the official site went down, a number of long-time fans have chosen to leave the FX community, but new fans, who had discovered the show in reruns and in overseas broadcasts, have joined the "family" of FXers. The present community is small in size, but the people are passionate about the show, the forum, and the fan fiction, which is still being written. They are also held together by a wonderful spirit of friendship and loyalty, where, unlike many other forums, no one says cruel or insulting things to another, and people can debate about subjects without fear of it turning into a shouting match. Everyone respects the opinions and feelings of their fellow FXers.

With the creation of the fxtheseries.com Web site, a site created in an effort to bring ease of FX Web surfing to the present FXers and also attract new people to the community, the fans gained the advantage and prestige of having a Web site with the show's name. This has proven to be the means through which even more people have found the FX community.

Though it is impossible to say what the future will hold for the fans of FX: The Series, it is certain that there will always be people out there whose love for the show will not let it fade away and who will always have the friendships that have been forged through this special community.