The Ringer - ‘9-1-1’ Watch2020-01-21T15:20:15-05:00http://www.theringer.com/rss/stream/167240812020-01-21T15:20:15-05:002020-01-21T15:20:15-05:00‘9-1-1: Lone Star’ Is Just As Bonkers As Its Predecessor
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<p>It also has Rob Lowe playing Firefighter Rob Lowe, and opens with a manure explosion</p> <p id="zrPG0K">Not all firefighter-related emergencies are created equal. Both times emergency responders were called to my last apartment building, nothing particularly dramatic happened—in the worst of the two incidents there was a lot of smoke from a neighbor burning food in their kitchen. Don’t get me wrong, I’m <em>relieved </em>nothing happened in my building that would make the evening news. I just wanted to assure you that not all firefighter calls exist on the same chaotic spectrum as those found on <em>9-1-1</em>. </p>
<p id="mrYBvS">In Fox’s <em>9-1-1</em> and the warped hellmouth of fictional Los Angeles our characters call home, every emergency scenario follows the basic formula of “[<em>Insert everyday occurrence</em>] + cocaine.” Here are some emergencies that have taken place on the show: A man getting swallowed by an ATM machine. A bar distress call, involving a <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/11/27/18114493/911-watch-season-2-episode-10-recap">drone flying into a waitress’s face</a>. A firefighter unit eating <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/23/18013916/911-watch-season-2-episode-6-recap">brownies laced with LSD</a>. A drunk woman getting her head stuck in a tailpipe. (The sentient ATM and tailpipe lady happened in the <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/9/17955554/911-watch-season-2-episode-4-recap">same episode</a>.) The series, cocreated by Ryan Murphy, is at once a love letter to the inherent bravery of emergency responders and the joy derived from looking up wild accident compilations on YouTube. </p>
<p id="HGQfnv">But if you thought the chaos of the <em>9-1-1</em> universe was limited to the streets of L.A.—it’s a hectic place!—then you were mistaken: Fox has now expanded its burgeoning franchise to Texas. And from the first two episodes of the spinoff <em>9-1-1: Lone Star</em>, which premiered this week, it appears the city of Austin is just as much of a deathtrap in waiting for unsuspecting citizens. As <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/2/8/16960040/9-1-1-watch"><em>The Ringer</em>’s official (only?) <em>9-1-1</em>-ologist</a>, I felt it was my duty to dive into <em>Lone Star</em> to see how the series compared to its predecessor, what kinds of emergencies firefighters have to deal with in Texas, and how much Rob Lowe wears “I’m just doing this for the paycheck” on his well-moisturized face. Here’s what I discovered. </p>
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<em>Lone Star </em>Doubles Down on Tragedy Porn </h3>
<p id="qcLtjC"><em>Lone Star</em> opens in quintessential <em>9-1-1</em> fashion: depicting a simple accident escalating out of control. This time, it’s a security guard setting his lunch on fire in the microwave because he wrapped his burrito in aluminum foil. Soon enough, the whole building is going up in flames, and Austin firefighters are evacuating everyone. Unfortunately, when one of the firefighters discovers the building is storing a ton of fertilizer, the show briefly turns into a Michael Bay movie. </p>
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<p id="wQk0CO">For the rest of the episode, <em>Lone Star</em> can’t resist adding a couple of reminders that a bunch of characters were killed by a ton of explosive cow poop. But at the same time, strangely, the show leans on tragedy: Rob Lowe’s Owen Strand is introduced as a New York firefighter who worked 9/11’s ground zero and was recently diagnosed with probably-terminal lung cancer. He’s supposed to seem sad and tortured, which is kind of at odds with him being played by the same guy who played <a href="https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Chris_Traeger">Chris Traeger</a>. Also, since when was a <em>9-1-1</em> show supposed to be a massive downer? </p>
<p id="VKljc3">Sadly, I’m not done listing <em>Lone Star</em>’s bad vibes: Owen’s son, TK—this is not a <a href="https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/ManuscriptPreparation/faq0006.html">journalistic placeholder</a>, that’s his real name—who is also a firefighter, nearly dies from a drug overdose after his boyfriend rejects his marriage proposal because he’s in love with another man. In just 20 minutes, an entire station of firefighters was blown up by poop, Rob Lowe was told he was going to die, and then his son nearly died. Why is this show so depressing? Do the writers need a hug? Are they listening to too much My Chemical Romance? Do the show’s creators know why people like watching <em>9-1-1 </em>in the first place? </p>
<p id="j6uW48">TK’s incident is the push Owen needs to accept a position in the fire department in Austin. One of his first tasks is rebuilding the manure-devastated station from scratch. (Despite TK carrying some serious psychological baggage, Owen lists his drug-related emergency as an “accidental overdose” and lets him work on his new unit in Texas, which feels a <em>tiny</em> bit unethical. Nepotism is fun.) This was enough tragedy porn to fuel an entire season of <em>This Is Us</em>. </p>
<h3 id="Vh4BHw">Liv Tyler Feels Like She Came From a Different Show </h3>
<p id="hCzNYX">No protagonist in <em>9-1-1</em> has a simple backstory. <em>Lone Star</em>’s co-lead is Michelle Blake (played by Liv Tyler), a paramedic obsessed with finding out what happened to her sister. The sister disappeared three years ago, and Michelle suspects her former boyfriend probably killed her. So when she isn’t doing an<em> emergency intubation</em> of an asthmatic child (very <em>9-1-1</em>-core), she’s seeking out witch doctors who can help her find clues(?!?!). She even performs some type of seance in her bathtub. </p>
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<p id="LTfGGG">I love this. Let Liv Tyler do her best Matthew McConaughey–in–<em>True Detective </em>cosplay. Let her ingest peyote on a vision quest where she ends up finding her sister living in a desert cave. Let a ouija board guide her to her sister’s real killer. If <em>Lone Star</em> became the Supernatural Firefighter Detective Show, I wouldn’t be mad—as long as we get answers to why Liv Tyler is doing a Southern accent only like 50 percent of the time. </p>
<h3 id="9Zk3vf">We’re Expected to Take a Dude Named Judd Ryder Seriously </h3>
<p id="Tb98vP">OK, so there’s actually <em>one</em> firefighter who survived the manure bomb. He wants to be part of the new team, but he’s still suffering from PTSD, so that makes him a risky hire until he gets some medical clearance. But none of that matters: I want to bring attention to the fact that this firefighter’s name is Judd Ryder. <em>Judd Ryder</em>. He sounds like a rodeo clown with a mean streak. How are we expected to take him seriously when <em>Lone Star</em>’s brain trust put his name through a Texas word generator? </p>
<p id="aQQJhE">And just how Southern is Judd? Well, he goes on a horseback ride–bonding trip with Fire Chief Rob Lowe in a scene I assume was left on the <em>Brokeback Mountain</em> cutting room floor. </p>
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<p id="XvMSgB">The show probably didn’t intend for the most electric chemistry in the cast to be between Judd Ryder and Rob Lowe—especially since we’re supposed to ’ship Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler. But I just can’t see Lowe’s character condoning all those seance baths; they seem like a fire hazard. </p>
<h3 id="3v59mc">Rob Lowe’s Character Is Obsessed With Hair and Skincare Products. Is This Even Acting? </h3>
<p id="8x3PxG">The problem with a lot of characters in the <em>9-1-1</em>-verse is that they’re poorly developed—the closest thing Owen has to a personality trait is “terminally ill.” (This is fine, in general, because all that matters is that the show’s emergencies remain delightfully bonkers.) Thankfully,<em> Lone Star</em> begins developing Owen’s personality by the second episode, in which it’s revealed that Owen is basically just Rob Lowe in a firefighter outfit. </p>
<p id="8ct0mh">Our guy is <em>obsessed</em> with skincare products—he spends a couple of minutes preaching the virtues of <em>exfoliating facial cleansers </em>to his team before getting a distress call. (He was absolutely <em>mortified</em> to learn one firefighter cleans his face with water and soap.) Then, when Owen finds out a new lung cancer treatment will interfere with his hair treatments, he has a nightmare where he’s gone bald and people would rather burn in a fire than get rescued by his chrome dome. </p>
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<p id="ndcQqq">Reminder: This is a guy who survived 9/11, and his most traumatic nightmare revolves around potential hair loss. It is both extremely unrealistic to expect that losing hair would freak someone out this much, and it makes perfect sense if you just assume Rob Lowe is just playing himself. </p>
<h3 id="DK3ifT">Is <em>9-1-1: Lone Star</em> Going to Use “Old Town Road”? </h3>
<p id="s2S9UR">You know it, partner. </p>
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<h3 id="qOjBqS">The Emergencies Remain Perfectly, Gloriously Dumb </h3>
<p id="m6rYrY">With all the emphasis on tragic backstories and bathtub seances, I was worried <em>Lone Star </em>wouldn’t prioritize the emergency scenarios that originally turned <em>9-1-1</em> into legendarily stupid television. But while I wouldn’t put any of the early <em>Lone Star</em> sequences into the series’ hall of fame—it’s a high bar to clear, since <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/3/1/17067008/911-watch-season-1-episode-7-recap">half a yoga class once simultaneously went into labor</a>—the show did deliver some absurd thrills. From the first two episodes, our emergencies included a man rupturing his esophagus by eating too much ghost pepper, a baby getting stuck in a tree, and most ridiculous of all, a bunch of employees going full <em>Bird Box</em> in their office. </p>
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<p id="U7ytVL">What compels a bunch of people to jump off a ledge and seemingly lose their minds? We find out that the company’s catered sandwiches were laced with mercury—the real side effects are terrifying!—by a disgruntled worker. “They never tip,” he says as he’s arrested for effectively reenacting a viral Netflix movie. I suppose the lesson here is: Tip your servers or run the risk of getting <a href="https://dictionary.apa.org/mad-hatters-disease">Mad Hatter’s disease</a>. </p>
<p id="2dUpQ5">Now that’s the <em>9-1-1 </em>I know and love—not depressing tragedies, but deadly food laced with ghost pepper and mercury. Blessedly, it appears more wild stuff is in <em>Lone Star</em>’s future, including a tornado and the firefighters being, quote, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/01/17/rob-lowe-liv-tyler-star-911-lone-star-spinoff/4486685002/">“bombed by bull semen,” per cocreator and executive producer Tim Minear</a>. “You can’t go wrong there,” he added, and I agree. It ought to be a matter of when, not if, Rob Lowe is called upon to rescue a farmer whose head got stuck in a cow’s rectum. (Taking bets now!) </p>
<p id="4DCoYi">So as long as <em>Lone Star </em>remembers the enduring appeal of these silly shows, we should be in for another wild ride in the <em>9-1-1</em> Extended Universe (at least when Rob Lowe isn’t plugging hair products). Take it away, cowboy. </p>
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<p>Fox’s emergency procedural goes out with a bang, with a midseason finale full of Christmas calamity</p> <p id="U38UIF">Let’s begin with the bad news first: Monday night’s episode of <em>9-1-1</em> was the last installment of 2018. Tragic, I know—it seems like it was only yesterday that the wildest procedural on television came back into our lives with an inebriated woman getting her <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/9/17955554/911-watch-season-2-episode-4-recap">head stuck in a pickup truck tailpipe</a> and Los Angeles’s finest firefighters <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/23/18013916/911-watch-season-2-episode-6-recap">inadvertently ingesting LSD-laced brownies</a>. The show will be missed, and I will not be able to look at a Christmas tree this year and <em>not</em> imagine a thousand ways it might cause an accident—so deeply has <em>9-1-1 </em>affected me. </p>
<p id="QlWhTl">The good news is that <em>9-1-1</em> ended its year with a bang. Monday night’s midseason finale, “Merry Ex-Mas,” featured a huge helping of Christmas music, decorations, and other festivities required for an entirely Christmas-themed week. It also featured several ridiculous, Christmas-specific emergencies for our firefighter heroes to jump into—including a factory worker who got wrapped in a giant present and Mistletoe drones. <em>9-1-1</em> is truly the gift that keeps on giving. </p>
<p id="bw21qa">Grab the strongest eggnog you can find: The last <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/2/8/16960040/9-1-1-watch"><em>9-1-1</em> Watch</a> of the year is going to be a doozy. </p>
<h3 id="KoMJYV">The Wildest Shit That Happened on <em>9-1-1</em> This Week </h3>
<p id="kikr5K">If I’m to judge suburban Christmases solely based on how network dramas (and <em>Christmas With the Kranks</em>) treat them, every household is very petty and <em>very</em> competitive about their Christmas decorations. <em>9-1-1</em> introduced us to this dude, John, who is absolutely livid that his (admittedly solid) decorative Christmas spread is being overshadowed by his neighbor—again!—just because the neighbor is bribing people with warm drinks. “Christmas isn’t about competition. Just be grateful for what we have,” John’s wife tells him—but this is <em>9-1-1</em>, so of course he does not heed her advice. </p>
<p id="I3ufjn">Please note that I don’t approve of what John does next, but I do understand his frustrations. He wanted to give his roof some Big Snowman Energy. It was just a bit more than he bargained for: </p>
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<p id="pS3FwV">This directly leads into what might be my favorite 9-1-1 emergency call on this show to date, which, as <em>9-1-1</em> viewers know, is a <em>very</em> <em>high</em> bar to clear. But I mean—just look at this! </p>
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<p id="a9eOCw">Thankfully, Christmas did <em>not</em> kill her husband. All things considered, John is actually in pretty good shape—and, as firefighter Chimney (Kenneth Choi) notes, a baby Jesus figure on the lawn helped break his fall. (<em>9-1-1</em> loves it some divine intervention.) What’s more: People finally admire the house’s Christmas decorations, thanks to all this extra attention. “This is the best Christmas ever,” John declares on his way to the hospital—which says more about the sad state of his home life than he realizes. </p>
<p id="BSqe5W">Meanwhile, Santa’s elves—read: warehouse workers—are hard at work getting presents packaged to travel across the country. But one malfunctioning crane sends a poor worker right into a giant cardboard box. Once again, something breaks the fall: Instead of baby Jesus, it’s a whole box of packing peanuts. </p>
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<p id="DUmOtj">When he eventually regains consciousness—fully in a package, shrink-wrapped and everything, on the back of a truck—he calls 9-1-1, and we are once again treated to an elite opening line to an emergency dispatcher. </p>
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<p id="6rGxmr">Question: How did the worker know <em>where</em> he was being shipped to? He was knocked unconscious into a random box! Was that entire production line a bunch of presents going from Los Angeles to Milwaukee? How much more does he—you know what, nevermind. I’m thinking too hard about this, which is the cardinal sin of watching <em>9-1-1</em>. </p>
<p id="98nk3n">The worker is rescued just after the flight heading to Milwaukee takes off, and he’s stable enough to joke that he looked like a Christmas ornament (nice). But the low-key best part of that rescue is when responders teared open the box and removed the item he was being shipped with, which is a huge teddy bear. </p>
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<p id="5tLyoH">You haven’t lived until you’ve heard a bunch of firefighters running on the natural adrenaline of the job dramatically yelling, “Get the bear out! Get the bear out!” before carrying a giant bear across a plane’s cargo section. Never change, <em>9-1-1</em>. </p>
<p id="Kh7KKd">Yet somehow, neither of these emergencies lived up to the Mistletoe drone. That’s right: Somewhere in the <em>9-1-1</em> Universe’s version of Los Angeles, there is a tiki bar that has mistletoe attached to a drone. And if you think that a drone operating inside a restaurant packed with people is a bad idea—especially in the world of <em>9-1-1</em>, where any innocuous thing can suddenly become a giant death trap—well, you are correct. </p>
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<p id="KsvpQq">This poor waitress loses <em>part of her nose</em>. (Apparently the hospital can just attach it back, thank god.) And look, I know I just chastised myself for overthinking <em>9-1-1</em>, but what is the logic of a RESTAURANT DRONE? Is there one employee who spends the entire day flying the thing? How often do drone accidents occur? Is the drone usage at the tiki bar reserved only for Christmas, or do they adorn the drone with different things for different seasonal events? During Halloween, does the drone fly around the tiki bar with a small bucket of candy? (I guess I should direct my questions to the TGI Friday’s in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2014/12/08/tgi-fridays-mistletoe-drone-chips-tip-off-customers-nosej.html">THAT ACTUALLY DID THIS</a>.) </p>
<p id="10o8h3">I think my head is about to explode—or maybe I was just clipped by drone propellers. Let’s just move on to the weekly awards. </p>
<p id="ZfKu1d"><strong>Worst Roommate:</strong> While it’s great that firefighter Buck (Oliver Stark) is finally willing to move on from Abby, the dude is treating Chimney’s living room like a freshman dorm room. </p>
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<p id="eOnvpH">Chimney kicks him out and really, who can blame him? </p>
<p id="qXkZ13"><strong>Worst Christmas Pun: </strong></p>
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<p id="y8ndW0">Buck is having a really rough week. </p>
<p id="aKKd8K"><strong>Most Overt ’Shipping of Eddie and Buck: </strong>Buck tagged along with firefighter Eddie (Ryan Guzman) while Eddie’s adorable son Christopher go to one of those Santa meet-and-greets. Upon seeing this, I wrote down in my notes that they looked like an adorable couple. Thankfully, I wasn’t the only one who noticed. </p>
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<p id="tYAZl0">I’m glad Buck doesn’t correct this old lady—he says, “uh, thank you” somewhat awkwardly—but he could’ve gone a step further, as this one excellent tweet from a <em>9-1-1</em> viewer suggests: </p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">if i directed that scene, we'd have buck looking at eddie & christopher at a distance, a soft smile creeping up on his face with realization, then look at the woman and say "i know" <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/911onFOX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#911onFOX</a></p>— michelle☁️ (@jakej0rtles) <a href="https://twitter.com/jakej0rtles/status/1067257490805587968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2018</a>
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<p id="pprqtL">Oliver Stark gave this idea his <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverstarkk/status/1067259818686074880">stamp of awkward approval</a>, for what it’s worth. </p>
<p id="xjDhDF"><strong>Best Proposal: </strong>Firefighter Bobby (Peter Krause) and policewoman Athena (Angela Bassett) make me nervous. Not because there’s anything wrong with them as a couple—they’re great—but because <em>9-1-1</em>’s protagonists run into dangerous situations on the regular. I don’t want anything to happen to either of them, but I also want them to be happy, and that sort of thing just won’t stand in a show like this. But when Bobby proposes at the end of the episode, you damn well know I cheered like it was a stoppage time goal at the end of a soccer match. </p>
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<p id="bjt7al">Know this, sadistic writers of <em>9-1-1</em>: If you do anything to tragically break apart this loving couple, I will have no choice but rev up my drone. </p>
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<p class="c-end-para" id="xuZ4U9">And that, unfortunately, <em>wraps</em> up—get it, because Christmas?—<em>9-1-1</em> this year. The show returns for the second half of its second season in March, so we’ll be reunited with its perpetually ridiculous mayhem and lovable firefighters before too long. In the meantime, if you miss the series over the holidays, I suggest revisiting some of the old classics—like that time a <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/11/6/18068270/911-watch-season-2-episode-8-recap">naked woman halted traffic on the freeway</a> because she was pissed at her husband, or when that <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/9/24/17896116/911-watch-season-2-premiere">dude cemented his face inside a microwave</a>. You know, classic <em>9-1-1</em> stuff.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/11/27/18114493/911-watch-season-2-episode-10-recapMiles Surrey2018-11-20T11:54:14-05:002018-11-20T11:54:14-05:00Started As a Pharma Rep, Now We’re Here: ‘9-1-1’ Watch, Week 8
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<p>In one of the most shocking twists ever, this week’s installment of Fox’s emergency procedural was a thoughtful, well-constructed episode of TV</p> <p id="CVcugg">After a brief hiatus, <em>9-1-1</em> did things a little differently this week, and not in a way you’d expect: Instead of upping the ante with an alien invasion or a whale swallowing a tourist whole or something, <em>9-1-1</em> did a character-driven flashback episode … set in 2010. Flashbacks episodes are fun—<a href="https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/movies-tv/a23932666/riverdale-season-3-flashback-episode/"><em>Riverdale</em></a> just did one!—but an eight-year gap isn’t enough to seem like a complete change of scenery. <em>9-1-1</em>, if you’re gonna [<em>extremely Pitbull voice</em>] go back in time, give us funky costumes and music from the ’80s! </p>
<p id="NIuYwM">But credit where it’s due: <em>9-1-1</em> delivered a genuinely solid episode, rather than an hour of pure, adrenalized chaos and haphazard character development. The episode, “Hen Begins”—which sounds like a Batman spinoff gone wrong, but let’s move on—showed us how Hen found her true calling in life as a firefighter and the obstacles faced joining the Los Angeles Fire Department as a woman of color. “Hen Begins” packed some emotional punches, buoyed by a captivating lead performance from Aisha Hinds (the <em>9-1-1</em> writers must’ve watched her work as Harriet Tubman on <em>Underground</em>, saw that she could capital-A Act, and given her a great opportunity to flex those muscles). </p>
<p id="3d4PIe">Of course, for the purposes of <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/2/8/16960040/9-1-1-watch"><em>9-1-1</em> Watch</a>—<em>The Ringer</em>’s recurring blog detailing all the wild moments of this perpetually bonkers TV universe—that meant we were a little shrifted this week. But here’s the good news: In addition to breaking down a light week of chaos, we have an exclusive interview with actor Oliver Stark, a.k.a. everyone’s favorite reformed sex-addict firefighter, Buck. We’ll get to that in a bit. For now, let’s break down “Hen Begins.” </p>
<h3 id="I8SU0p">The Wildest Shit That Happened on <em>9-1-1</em> This Week </h3>
<p id="IIj7p3">“Hen Begins,” well, begins with Hen having a business dinner as a pharmaceutical rep, an occupation that is just so clearly not as rewarding as firefighting. You can tell Hen’s just not feeling it—especially once one of the men tries to proposition her and she threatens to stab his hand with the steak knife. (Queen.) By the end of the night, she knows she needs to quit her job. </p>
<p id="Im74Co">But that means Hen must find something new, so she has a meeting with her life coach to discuss her options. And before you can even think about how strange it is that an ostensibly long-time pharmaceutical rep has a life coach, she collapses onto the floor. </p>
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<p id="7uefWv">Life Coach had a heart attack, and it’s thanks to Hen’s fast thinking—calling 9-1-1 and performing CPR before the paramedics arrived—that saved the woman’s life. Yeah, I think Hen is going to be pretty good at this. </p>
<p id="Dv0rTC">We flash a bit forward, as Hen joins the firefighter academy, and what follows is a brief yet uplifting training montage that culminates with Hen’s graduation. The montage is nowhere near <em>Rocky</em> franchise levels of good, but it <em>did</em> have me feeling like Hinds needs to be enlisted for a <a href="https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/11/19/18102706/widows-exit-survey"><em>Widows</em></a> sequel, were that ever to happen. </p>
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<p id="WhCbl3">But life at the station turns out to be not all that great. Our wholesome fire chief Bobby (Peter Krause) is nowhere to be seen, and the current chief—let’s just call him the One-Dimensional Bad Guy—hates that the LAFD gave him a “diversity hire.” On top of that awfulness, he also doesn’t think a woman can do what he perceives to be a man’s job. Suffice to say, this guy sucks. The only person at the station who welcomes Hen is an Asian guy named Howie—which, yep, that’s the real name of fellow <em>9-1-1</em> firefighter Chimney (Kenneth Choi). The mystery of why he’s called Chimney, though, will apparently be saved for another flashback episode. </p>
<p id="RNQRIS">For Hen’s first big 9-1-1 call, she has to deal with a biblical landslide that really had it out for this poor woman’s house. </p>
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<p id="UQFPZZ">I suppose, since it rains in L.A. infrequently, she’d have never suspected that living in a home adjacent to a hill would be a problem. The woman is trapped in the mud and can barely breathe. Hen ignores the advice of the station chief and adds <em>more</em> water to the mud, which helps the woman break free. Because another house fell on her, the woman’s injuries were so severe that she still died in the hospital—and the One-Dimensional Bad Guy continued to treat Hen like shit, but she did the right thing and proved that leaving a life of pharmaceutical conferences for firefighting in what is apparently the most catastrophically dangerous city in the world was the right choice. </p>
<p id="nFtVE2">And really … that was it for <em>9-1-1</em> Watch. Seriously. Hen delivered an emotional speech at the fire station about wanting to feel seen—it was genuinely great—and ignored her captain’s orders on another call, which saved a kid’s life. By the end of “Hen Begins,” the One-Dimensional Bad Guy was fired because Hen’s coworkers reported his transparently misogynist behavior. And with that, the crucial backstory of one of <em>9-1-1</em>’s heroes was complete. I was always rooting for Hen, but now whenever she’s rescuing a civilian I’m going to be on the couch holding one of those giant inflatable no. 1 fingers people wear at sporting events. </p>
<h3 id="jQuUs7">The Buck Talks Here With Oliver Stark, <em>9-1-1</em> Actor Who Plays Buck </h3>
<p id="LYgzDD">And now, instead of weekly awards, here is our wide-ranging interview with Stark. This has been edited and condensed for clarity. </p>
<p id="cqg3K6"><strong>Your character, Buck, is constantly jumping between emergencies. What’s it like when you first sit down to read the </strong><em><strong>9-1-1</strong></em><strong> scripts and they’re full of all these ridiculous emergency scenarios? Two seasons in, do you get numbed to the craziness at some point? </strong></p>
<p id="TBqErB">Pretty much every time a script comes through, I read it and think, “How are we going to do that?” Because some of the scenarios are so extreme and seem so big and ambitious. And then every single time, we have such a good crew here that make it happen. Like, I propelled down a cliff in Malibu the other day, climbed up a roller coaster in the first season. I’m getting to do all these cool things that are being set up for me to be safe, but there’s still an adrenaline rush from doing it. That’s just a perfect job, as far as I’m concerned.</p>
<p id="dpxu0r"><strong>Is there a particular emergency sequence that stands out as being especially fun to film? </strong></p>
<p id="f7h9h2">I think the <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/9/24/17896116/911-watch-season-2-premiere">earthquake</a> at the beginning of the season—it was so big and it was a lot of hard work to pull off. We were building these huge sets, and the crew had to tilt them 30 degrees, which doesn’t actually sound like that much, but that’s a lot. You can’t even stand up on that tilt, so we were building these huge things on this big, turning set. It was such a huge effort. </p>
<p id="rV5AdO"><strong>The </strong><em><strong>9-1-1</strong></em><strong> writers base a lot of these emergencies on real-life incidents. Were you or any of the other actors surprised about some of the backstories? </strong></p>
<p id="JTBUUf">The one that was most surprising to me was probably from the first episode of this season where, for YouTube hits, somebody cemented their head into a microwave. Reading it, I thought, “Nobody’s that stupid,” but no, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/08/youtuber-cements-his-head-microwave-prank-fears-his-life-fire-officials-save-him/934829001/">that’s a real thing</a>. </p>
<p id="1grqfS"><strong>The biggest change for Buck this season is Abby leaving the picture and your sister Maddie showing up. That also means replacing one TV icon, Connie Britton, for another in Jennifer Love Hewitt. How’s the experience been getting to work closely with these two actresses?</strong></p>
<p id="uKqRT9">I can’t believe my luck. I had a lot of fun with Connie last year. We had a really great relationship. And then with Jennifer coming in this year, we have a very similar relationship off set where we make fun of each other a lot. She’s actually become a really important person in my personal life. She’ll call me and give me a pep talk when I need it, so that’s really nice to have someone with the experience that she has. </p>
<p id="FZtuaJ"><strong>What’s the best piece of advice that one of the veteran actors on the show has given you?</strong></p>
<p id="Q9cVEs">Talking with Peter Krause, he’s making sure that I enjoy every day. I remember him telling me about <em>Six Feet Under</em> and saying when he had to pull his car out of the parking lot on the final day, what a moment that was for him. That hit me, thinking that at some point this show will end. I thought, “Wow, yeah, I really need to make the most out of every moment.”</p>
<p id="AMQEFi"><strong>Another newcomer this season is fellow firefighter Eddie. Your characters had a bit of animosity at the beginning, but now Buck and Eddie have developed a bit of a bromance. The </strong><em><strong>9-1-1</strong></em><strong> fans are even </strong>‘<strong>shipping them as a couple. </strong></p>
<p id="km5onP">Yeah, I know. I’ve seen a lot of it, and again I’m like, “Sure, if that’s what you are taking from their relationship.” Any piece of art is put out there for people to interpret in whichever way they want. If that’s what people pick up on or see, then good for them. </p>
<p id="j33iZv"><strong>Buck’s turned over a new leaf this season. It’s a massive change from the start of Season 1, when he was self-professed sex-addict, to the point that he once used a fire truck to pick up a woman. What do you think’s been the biggest factor in Buck moving away from those sex-addict ways? </strong></p>
<p id="FU1cS0">It’s a number of things. The most obvious is his relationship with Abby and discovering what real intimacy is, and the fact that what he’d been doing before—as fun as it felt at the time—was a little empty. But also, I think it’s just a case of him growing up and learning from the people around him, realizing what to prioritize in life. </p>
<p id="BnnZPt"><strong>Buck just went on a date with Ali, the woman he rescued from the hotel, and obviously </strong><em><strong>9-1-1</strong></em><strong> is always gonna put your character in some type of danger with these emergencies. What should fans expect from the rest of the season with Buck?</strong></p>
<p id="3KUvaM">I can’t answer that because I don’t know yet. We’re still shooting, but from what I know, it’s just continuing down the path that we set out on of almost self-discovery. There will be slipups and there will be recoveries from that, and then he’ll probably slip up again. I think there’s a roller coaster still ahead for him, which is very true to life in your 20s. My life kind of mirrors Buck’s life, so it’s quite therapeutic. So yeah, we’ll see what comes, but I think there are plenty of ups and downs still ahead.</p>
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<p class="c-end-para" id="cCwWMv">Come back next week, as <em>9-1-1</em>’s midseason finale doubles as a Christmas special, featuring an emergency call from a guy trapped in a giant present and another person inadvertently knocking themselves off the roof of their house while inflating a giant Santa Claus. I need it to be Monday night again already.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/11/20/18104773/911-watch-season-2-episode-9-recapMiles Surrey2018-11-06T11:13:06-05:002018-11-06T11:13:06-05:00Naked and in Love: ‘9-1-1’ Watch, Week 7
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<p>Obviously, the most efficient way to fix a marriage is to take all your clothes off and stand on a highway sign</p> <p id="EPIftX">This week’s episode of <em>9-1-1</em> was called “Buck, Actually,” which is important for two reasons. One, it meant we were getting an hour focused on the show’s best character: Buck (Oliver Stark), the firefighter and reformed sex addict who’s finally beginning to accept that emergency dispatcher Abby (Connie Britton) probably isn’t coming back and he should start dating again. And secondly: <em>Wow</em>, they really went and named an episode “Buck, Actually.” </p>
<p id="vpDRIg">But actually, “Buck, Actually” dealt with a lot more than just Buck’s love life. In typical <em>9-1-1</em> tradition, every character and every emergency this week was bit by the love bug, as if it was mandated by some unseen elemental power in the show’s universe—[<em>cough</em>] writers—that every 9-1-1 call must correspond with how the firefighters were feeling at the time. If you’re an avid <em>9-1-1</em> consumer, or a frequent reader of <em>The Ringer</em>’s <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/2/8/16960040/9-1-1-watch"><em>9-1-1</em> Watch</a> blogs, you’re probably nodding along, because why wouldn’t this happen on this show? </p>
<p id="Ho06Kd">With that, let’s break down the best emergencies and spontaneous sparks of romance from “Buck, Actually.” </p>
<h3 id="SYhnis">The Wildest Shit That Happened on <em>9-1-1</em> This Week </h3>
<p id="gpCI2r">At the start of “Buck, Actually,” there is traffic on the 405, which is not exactly shocking news for Angelenos, who have coined the match between the city’s two Major League Soccer teams as <a href="https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2018/07/24/el-trafico-birth-rivalry-chapter-1">“El Tráfico”</a> because these types of situations are as certain as the sun setting every evening. What is <em>causing</em> the traffic jam, though, is, uh, unique. </p>
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<p id="rX72NU">This is Lola, and Lola is absolutely wildin’ the fuck out on this highway sign. As she explains to our firefighter heroes, she is pissed off at her husband, Norman, who doesn’t “see” her anymore and, now that their kid went off to college, she is feeling fed up with their marriage. In a perfect bit of timing, the show cuts to Norman jammed on the other side of the freeway, turning off his car and running toward a food truck to grab a bear claw before he sees a video of the incident and is like, <em>Oh shit, that’s my wife</em>! </p>
<p id="4MGdbI">The man of the hour, Buck, tries his best to calm down Lola by bringing up his own problems: “You have a Norman, I have an Abby,” he says. First of all, Buck, <em>let it go, man</em>; Connie Britton is not coming back this season. Also, you saying her name might make sense to <em>9-1-1 </em>viewers, but this naked lady up on a sign doesn’t care that you’re just blurting out a seemingly random woman’s name. </p>
<p id="V8xJrG">Thankfully, Norman arrives just before Lola does anything drastic—she legit pulled out a gun!—and started telling her how he really feels. “I see the girl who used to sneak out to the beach bonfires and listen to the Psychedelic Furs and the Cure,” Norman says, which sounds a lot like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiiCBcHAoE8">a scene in <em>Call Me by Your Name</em></a>. “I see the girl who once drank nine shots of Jäger and woke up without a hangover.” It was at this point I shot up from my couch—nine shots of Jäger, and <em>no hangover</em>? Does Lola have superpowers? Is <em>9-1-1</em> part of the Marvel TV Universe? </p>
<p id="BXcOFK">But before I can compartmentalize these thoughts any further, Lola is brought down and then arrested by policewoman Athena (Angela Bassett). But at least the spark in her marriage with Norman is back: </p>
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<p id="qnbOrW">Those conjugal visits are gonna be spicy.</p>
<p id="VdXLP7">Elsewhere in the romance hour, two doofuses doing their best Bonnie and Clyde tried to rob a local gas station. It was an immediate, Gatorade-fueled disaster. </p>
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<p id="TL0LFI"><em>9-1-1</em> often pulls its wackiest emergencies from real-life news; the inspiration here is less from a specific instance as much as an amalgamation of those <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzEWFE7M97Y">gas station</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMzYozQWykE">robbery fails</a> that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRridymv1wc">pop up</a> every couple of months and go viral on YouTube. Obviously, even a <em>couples</em> robbery isn’t cute. What is cute about this moment was the genuine affection one gas station worker, Earl, has for his coworker, Ruth. He body-slams one of the robbers like a linebacker because he cares about her. “I was only thinking of you, Ruth,” he says. (Aww!) </p>
<p id="k4JtSz">Normally, I’d suggest not trying be a hero when dealing with armed robbers, but <em>this</em> is how one of them tries to escape from the cops: </p>
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<p id="Gjrztu">I don’t think Earl was ever in any real danger, and once again: love wins. And now, time for some weekly awards. </p>
<p id="ISQdKn"><strong>Best News Graphic: </strong></p>
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<p id="xiJYGc">Don’t worry, #BlindNorman can see clearly now. </p>
<p id="ULJM68"><strong>Worst Made-Up Phrase:</strong> Firefighter Chimney (Kenneth Choi) and new emergency responder Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) are basically dating now, even if they aren’t ready to admit it. They jammed to some karaoke this week alongside a perplexed Buck, who was understandably shook that his coworker had essentially started going out with his sister while he wasn’t paying attention. But the most couple-y moment of all is what Chimney and Maddie do on the weekends: They celebrate “Buffriday,” in which they order a lot of different takeout and treat it like a glorified buffet line. </p>
<p id="H2M7p6">Again: When you and an attractive person of the desired gender are literally nicknaming weekly shared traditions and spending every Friday evening together, you are BASICALLY DATING. Thankfully, by the end of “Buck, Actually,” they make it semi-official by having a much-needed heart-to-heart and going to the movies together. Personally, I stan Chaddie, though “Buffriday” could use some workshopping. </p>
<p id="ALdKUo"><strong>Worst Dancing: </strong></p>
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<p id="3oOnHN">Peter Krause, my guy, what the hell is this? </p>
<p id="JGuRY4"><strong>Best Callback: </strong></p>
<p id="KOrpw0">After having spontaneous karaoke bathroom sex with hotshot news reporter Taylor Kelly earlier in the episode, Buck says he wants to look for something serious. The dude doesn’t wanna get back to his former sex-addict ways. With that in mind, he goes to dinner with this gal: </p>
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<p id="ZoDYij">She sorta looks familiar, right? Well, that’s because she’s Ali, the woman Buck and fellow firefighter Eddie (Ryan Guzman) rescued from the collapsing hotel in the <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/9/24/17896116/911-watch-season-2-premiere">Season 2 premiere</a>—she had blond hair back then and had just been propositioned by her Harvey Weinstein–esque boss. It’s cool, though: <em>9-1-1</em> Karma decided that he should fall out of the hotel and plunge to his death, so he’s out of the picture. </p>
<p id="DXS2XY">I say this without a hint of sarcasm: I did not see this coming for Buck—and I’m mildly impressed that <em>9-1-1 </em>expects its viewers to remember what happened multiple episodes ago—but I’m happy for him. </p>
<p id="Zt8OMx"><strong>Best Clarifying Oliver Stark Live-Tweet: </strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Maddie is his sister! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/911onFOX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#911onFOX</a> <a href="https://t.co/dgAHqTh3aw">https://t.co/dgAHqTh3aw</a></p>— Oliver Stark (@oliverstarkk) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverstarkk/status/1059635590285602816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 6, 2018</a>
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<p id="RE7D8j">OK, look, this viewer should probably know that Maddie is Buck’s sister and not an ex-girlfriend—but the show <em>did</em> introduce her by having Buck accidentally run in on her taking a shower. That was a very weird way to unveil a sibling! </p>
<p class="c-end-para" id="F7lKQx"><em>9-1-1</em> is unfortunately on hiatus for one week, but it’s setting up the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7JJA0w5-U0">next episode</a> to be another doozy: A landslide is gonna put a family in danger. (The 9-1-1 call: “The whole mountain just came down into our house.”) This feels like another emergency that’ll take up the entire hour—but I do hope we find out how Buck’s date with Ali went. I also stan Buckli, and no, I will not workshop that nickname.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/11/6/18068270/911-watch-season-2-episode-8-recapMiles Surrey2018-10-30T11:24:34-04:002018-10-30T11:24:34-04:00The Bats Are Real: ‘9-1-1’ Watch, Week 6
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<p>A very spooky, very Halloween-themed episode of the wildest show on TV took a dramatic turn toward (*gasp*) character development and animal deaths</p> <p id="KvdrnX">You would think that combining the drama of Fox’s <em>9-1-1</em>—a show that’s taken the mantle from <a href="https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/10/26/17354142/zoo-tv-show-cbs-rats-bats-sloths-oh-my">CBS’s dearly departed <em>Zoo</em></a> as the wildest program on network TV—with Halloween would be a recipe for ridiculous disaster. If the show’s version of <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/2/8/16991134/911-watch-season-1-episode-6-recap">Valentine’s Day</a> involved a sex-addicted firefighter nearly choking to death on a date and a woman trying to carve Angela Bassett’s heart out, imagine what they could do with the <em>spooky</em> holiday. </p>
<p id="xJyEoY">Well, here’s a twist: Monday night’s Halloween-themed episode, “Haunted,” was surprisingly low-key by the show’s <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/2/17928016/911-watch-season-2-episode-3-recap">collapsing-hotel</a> standards. To be sure, there were a few frights and one really depressing animal death, but for the most part <em>9-1-1</em> eschewed its silliest vices in favor of firefighter character development and emotional exchanges. I suppose that’s also kind of scary: <em>Imagine if this show tried to take itself this seriously</em> <em>all the time</em>. </p>
<p id="SLdZrA">Still, there’s some fun stuff to sift through from “Haunted,” so let’s break it all down. </p>
<h3 id="T34grq">The Wildest Shit That Happened on <em>9-1-1</em> This Week</h3>
<p id="VYOoLF">“Haunted” began in a place you might expect: a graveyard. A woman was visiting the tombstone of her dearly departed husband to give him an update on her life. Turns out she’s selling the family house—and her husband must have been really enthusiastic about the Los Angeles real estate market, because right after she said that, AN EXASPERATED ZOMBIE MAN JUMPED HER.</p>
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<p id="U23mS8">“Anything under $250,000 would be criminal,” the zombie husband said. </p>
<p id="SaTskQ">Just kidding—it wasn’t the reanimated corpse of her husband, or a ghoul who just so happened to have its rotting finger on property trends. The soot-covered man was actually a graveyard worker who got trapped underground when a sinkhole formed around his worksite. The zombielike groans were him gasping for air. </p>
<p id="rZiUWr">Still, for a brief moment, this poor lady was indeed spooked, and she delivered a hilariously appropriate emergency call that was probably super unhelpful.</p>
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<p id="z4rp57">Whenever Halloween rolls around, I suppose 9-1-1 operators anticipate getting a few calls where people just scream on the other line, the same way mall Santas anticipate getting puked on by at least one child. ’Tis the season, ya know? </p>
<p id="cY3mUu">Elsewhere in Los Angeles, there was a sick Halloween party happening on the streets, with glow sticks and everything. The DJ was even playing an EDM remix of John Carpenter’s <em>Halloween</em> theme, a true banger that said, “I stan for the classics,” but also, “How do you do, fellow kids?” </p>
<p id="sYSiUd">Unfortunately, this very hip Halloween party went down the tubes when one partygoer inadvertently set someone else on fire—the kind of thing that’s totally avoidable when you’re not <em>spewing flames from your mouth</em>. In the ensuing chaos, a policeman was knocked off his very good police horse, City Slicker, who began running through the crowd.</p>
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<p id="tTcLGI">In the fracas, City Slicker apparently sustained a nasty leg injury—<em>9-1-1 </em>didn’t actually show this happening because while burning humans is kosher, the show draws the line at horse violence—and with animal specialists over an hour away, the best course of action was for our firefighter protagonists to euthanize the poor fella. Now, <em>9-1-1</em> is often silly and profoundly stupid, but animal deaths are a big weakness for me, so I’m not afraid to admit that City Slicker’s final moments were really hard for me. Especially when his human partner said things like, “He’s a good boy. I just don’t want him to suffer anymore” and “When you wake up, you’re gonna be in a field of sage and you can just run forever.” AND ESPECIALLY WHEN CITY SLICKER MADE SAD HORSE GROANS. </p>
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<p id="eZLqjq"><em>9-1-1</em> pulling the Sad Animal Death card was a low blow. This was supposed to be the silly Halloween episode, not the sad horse hour! Nothing will ease my pain—not even curating a playlist of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=semLrbEOElo">techno-themed <em>Halloween</em> theme remixes</a> from YouTube.</p>
<p id="Tq2K9s">And now, some episodic awards.</p>
<p id="40TDcu"><strong>Best Firefighter Halloween Costume:</strong> In keeping with the John Carpenter theme, firefighter Eddie (Ryan Guzman) was a big fan of <em>Escape From New York</em>. I respect the commitment. </p>
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<p id="bEP0VQ">This sounds ridiculous out of context, but the caller technically wasn’t lying. The bats <em>were</em> real! And they were flying into power lines and instantly combusting!</p>
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<p id="VR8Zgm"><strong>Most Painfully On-the-Nose Halloween-Themed Quote:</strong> Again, <em>9-1-1</em> is never subtle, so even in regular conversations characters were throwing out words like “ghost” and “haunted” for no discernible reason other than this episode <em>really</em> needing to hammer home the Halloween theme. </p>
<p id="I0XZPk">The best of these extremely overt moments was when Buck (Oliver Stark) was talking about finally getting over former emergency responder Abby (mostly because <a href="https://tvline.com/2018/08/02/connie-britton-leaving-9-1-1-abby-season-2-not-returning/">Connie Britton</a> doesn’t seem to be coming back, and is living her best life on <em>American Horror Story: Apocalypse</em>) and tried to collect his thoughts. “I felt like I was being haunted by this memory of her, but maybe <em>I’m</em> the ghost,” he said. WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT EVEN MEAN? </p>
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<p id="nBePlI">Same. </p>
<p id="79U8b8"><strong>Most Earnest Oliver Stark Live-Tweet: </strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Honestly, honestly? I rappelled the entire cliff. Very proud of myself. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/911onFOX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#911onFOX</a> <a href="https://t.co/9bAldGGC1t">https://t.co/9bAldGGC1t</a></p>— Oliver Stark (@oliverstarkk) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverstarkk/status/1057077880906121216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 30, 2018</a>
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<p id="MeFlzG">Congrats, you wholesome little snack! </p>
<p class="c-end-para" id="CrhzKe">Come back <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g7BQp7orDU">next week</a> for an episode that is legitimately titled “Buck, Actually.” [<em>Whispers.</em>] It’s going to be about Buck and his post-Abby dating life.</p>
https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/30/18042616/911-watch-season-2-episode-7-recapMiles Surrey2018-10-23T11:38:27-04:002018-10-23T11:38:27-04:00Don’t Eat Cockroaches (or LSD-laced Fudge): ‘9-1-1’ Watch, Week 5
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<p>This week on the wildest show on TV, firefighters get high, news reporters nearly die, and one mom lodges her high heel into another mom’s head </p> <p id="HUIvpO">Watching <em>9-1-1 </em>is a natural high, one that<em> </em>always has me standing on top of my couch and screaming at the top of my lungs within minutes. It’s hard not to have an intense physical reaction while watching firefighters exclusively respond to emergencies that seem to be written by a bunch of raccoons chugging down a cocktail of Red Bull and LSD. In this universe, our heroes respond to calls about a <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/10/9/17955554/911-watch-season-2-episode-4-recap">man trapped in an ATM</a> and a woman getting her head stuck in a tailpipe within hours like it’s any given Tuesday, which apparently, it just is. </p>
<p id="ua39c3">But how wild would <em>9-1-1</em> be [<em>takes hit</em>] if the firefighters <em>themselves</em> were high? Monday night’s episode was called “Dosed,” and it sure as hell lived up to the title. Let’s break it all down. </p>
<h3 id="1oWnOn">The Wildest Shit That Happened on <em>9-1-1</em> This Week </h3>
<p id="OHlUIf">Picture this: You’re a 9-1-1 operator in Los Angeles, and you’ve just started your shift. Most of your screened calls are very menial things—and then suddenly a local news traffic reporter is informing you in their best newscaster voice that the helicopter they’re in is about to crash. </p>
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<p id="ZQq2Lz">Imagine being so committed to your brand that in what might end up being the waning moments of your life, you stick to the bit. Say what you will about Taylor Kelly, she is a goddamn traffic capital-J Journalist. Give her the Pulitzer now. </p>
<p id="No1L5S">Given <em>9-1-1</em>’s propensity for flight-related drama—Season 1 didn’t just have a commercial jet crash into the ocean, but also had a small, two-person passenger plane make an emergency landing after a proposal gone wrong—I braced for the worst. Like, humans-turning-into-sashimi-via-propellers levels of bad. But amazingly, this ended up being a fairly routine emergency for our firefighter heroes. The helicopter landed somewhat evenly on some bleachers, and everyone onboard was saved before anything gnarly happened. </p>
<p id="DB5dtV">Taylor was so grateful for the firefighters saving her life—and so disinterested in jumping back inside a helicopter after nearly crashing—that she decided to film a piece about the team themselves. And with a camera crew set to follow the heroes during their wild emergencies, <em>9-1-1</em> suddenly got meta. As Taylor and her team soon discovered, L.A.’s firefighters are exclusively involved in batshit scenarios that make for compelling television. Take this emergency call to [<em>squints</em>] an exotic animal pet store where [<em>squints even harder</em>] a competitive eating contest was underway and one contestant [<em>nearly vomits</em>] was choking to death on a bunch of live crickets. </p>
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<p id="PUGykD">The contestants could eat anything that was part of a monitor lizard’s diet. My guy nearly died trying to win 500 bucks and a monitor lizard; another lady opted to eat cockroaches. This is the last time I watch <em>9-1-1</em> over dinner. </p>
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<p id="gbQYOh">Yet somehow none of this compares to what the firefighters ended up doing to themselves—the <em>real</em> reason this episode is called “Dosed.” As Chimney (Kenneth Choi) explained to Taylor while she was working on her report, the station gets a ton of goodies from civilians, and the firefighters love it: What better thanks for their service could there be than an endless supply of snacks? This time, Chimney was bummed to find out everyone else had eaten some fudge that came in, but before he had much time to mope, the team headed out for another call. </p>
<p id="MNyYhf">Station chief Bobby (Peter Krause) sat the call out, which gave Taylor the perfect opportunity to do a one-on-one interview. And that’s when it became clear that Bobby was high as a kite. </p>
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<p id="FtNZIH">Bobby ate some fudge; so did everyone heading to the call not named Chimney. You know where this is going. It doesn’t make it any less incredible. </p>
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<p id="K8RCYM">“Your guys be trippin’,” policewoman Athena (Angela Bassett) accurately told Chimney, who was essentially on his own to handle a pageant that took a turn for the gruesome when one <em>Toddlers & Tiaras</em> mom became so irate that she STUCK HER HIGH HEEL IN ANOTHER MOM’S FACE. </p>
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<p id="1eQPwd">Only <em>9-1-1</em> could show a lady with a shoe in her face and have it be the second most interesting thing happening in the room. Firefighters! Be! Trippin’! Balls! </p>
<p id="gM3isP">The spiked fudge was ultimately tested for LSD—and the culprit turned out to be the owner of the aforementioned exotic pet shop, who wanted to provide the firefighters “a little clarity” (??) for their troubles. The lesson here is that the firefighters should actually check the food that’s sent to them—God forbid someone tried to poison them! That being said, I could totally envision <em>9-1-1</em> doing an episode three years from now in which a complimentary seafood paella results in all the firefighters puking their guts out during an emergency. And now, time for some weekly awards. </p>
<p id="HbRgHS"><strong>Best High Firefighter Moment: </strong>So many to choose from, but I loved Buck (Oliver Stark) and Eddie’s (Ryan Guzman) brief existential breakdown. </p>
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<p id="GFcFtR"><strong>Best Almost Reveal:</strong> One of<em> 9-1-1</em>’s enduring mysteries is the origin of Chimney’s nickname, and why the hell a firefighter would willingly allow himself to be called Chimney by all of his coworkers. The show has previously teased what it means before, but during Taylor’s reporting Hen (Aisha Hinds) says the story is “not one you can tell on TV.” </p>
<p id="7Kj9Rs">What Hen is basically saying is: It’s probably related to his penis.</p>
<p id="Oy8ETi"><strong>Worst Game: </strong>Buck developed a bit of a crush on Taylor Kelly, the local traffic reporter who, again, will do an actual news signoff while ostensibly plummeting to her death. (There’s a lot to like.) Unfortunately, Buck’s flirting techniques were a bit rusty since Connie Britton’s Abby left him in dating purgatory while she travels across Europe; he’d apparently forgotten how to speak normally. “It’s weird to hear that voice ... come out of a face,” Buck told Taylor, attempting to explain that he listens to her traffic reports every morning and that they’re super helpful for his commute (how romantic!). Can somebody call 9-1-1 to save Buck from himself?</p>
<p id="5JuImj"><strong>Most Shocking ’Ship:</strong> When Eddie—a handsome ex-Army medic who has an adorable kid and seems like an all-around great dude, and who is also single—was introduced as the newest firefighter this season, I predicted that he was definitely going to hook up with Buck’s sister, Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt), who is also single and also beautiful. Instead, this happened: </p>
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<p id="fMB6Y5">I <em>did not </em>see this coming, but now I can’t stop thinking about it. And after some brief consideration, I’m totally about it. Give me Chimney and Maddie—Chamney forever! (We can workshop the title.) </p>
<p id="qNmGHa"><strong>Most Earnest Oliver Stark Live-Tweet: </strong></p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">I have a secret pet peeve. It’s actors having food in scenes and not eating. Hence stuffing the cupcake in my mouth and the brownie too! Stay tuned for popcorn! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/911onFOX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#911onFOX</a> <a href="https://t.co/WwlDoylh9a">pic.twitter.com/WwlDoylh9a</a></p>— Oliver Stark (@oliverstarkk) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverstarkk/status/1054591532831887360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 23, 2018</a>
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<p id="PXbzlY">[<em>Cries</em>] What a snack! </p>
<p class="c-end-para" id="rtp8Md">Come back next week for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rA3lD8X6cWA"><em>9-1-1</em>’s Halloween-themed episode</a>, as Bobby apparently believes a ghost called 9-1-1—and knowing this ridiculous show, he might actually be right!</p>
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<p>On behalf of the show, we apologize for this headline</p> <p id="V4A67v">More than any other show on TV, <em>9-1-1</em> loves to use episodic themes, and do so with as little subtlety as possible. Other shows will convey messages in clever, low-key ways, but Fox’s emergency-responder procedural just outright names episodes after the themes they’re trying to emphasize. Take, for example, “Karma’s a Bitch” (an episode about karma), “Trapped” (an episode about people being literally and figuratively trapped), “Heartbreaker” (an episode about relationships and, specifically, one woman who carved out her boyfriend’s heart), and “Stuck” (an episode that was basically the same as “Trapped”). </p>
<p id="DwnmlP">It’s always a delight when a new episode of <em>9-1-1</em> has a title that tells you everything you need to know about what’s in store, and that was the case Monday night with “Awful People.” Wouldn’t you know it, there were certainly some terrible humans on display—some in places you wouldn’t expect, like in a 9-1-1 call center! (I’ll confess: <em>That</em> was an unexpected twist.) Let’s break down all the awful people of “Awful People,” and all the good firefighters who came to their rescue. </p>
<h3 id="I9Asp9">The Wildest Shit That Happened on <em>9-1-1</em> This Week </h3>
<p id="MI6j82"><em>9-1-1</em> wasted no time giving us our first awful person of the episode, opening with a woman who makes a ton of money by throwing herself in front of cars in parking lots and intentionally slipping on ketchup packets in food courts. It’s guilt-tripping (with a threat of suing on the side) of the most odious order, and when this woman set her sights on a poor old woman leaving a store, karma intervened: </p>
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<p id="kuCr79">The woman didn’t die; her body must be so strong after a life of letting herself get run over. As our firefighter heroes and policewoman Athena (Angela Bassett) arrived on the scene, though, they realized they had already <em>met this lady before</em>. (I briefly gasped, because yes, I am emotionally invested in this goddamn show.) That’s right, <em>9-1-1</em> is now bringing back characters from previous emergencies. In <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/3/8/17096332/911-watch-season-1-episode-8-recap">last season’s karma-centric episode</a>—also known as the one where a tiger ate an evil dentist after he threw a pine cone at its enclosure—this same woman broke her femur while stealing someone’s package from their front lawn. Her package-stealing prowess earned her the nickname “Porch Pirate” at the precinct. </p>
<p id="VgMtZ5">“Guess you moved up from porches to parking lots,” Athena said Monday, in a flawless line of dialogue. Parking Lot Pirate (new name; my idea) responded by threatening to sue Athena and the firefighters—which doesn’t make sense considering they just saved her life and brought her to a hospital. Clearly, the Parking Lot Pirate studied libel at the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0K3w2Ty8GU">same university as Saul Goodman</a> went to (go Land Crabs!). “Awful woman,” Athena concluded, while somehow not staring directly at the camera and removing her sunglasses. </p>
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<p id="GRzM1X">Athena wasn’t finished this week, as she took new emergency-responder Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) on a ride along so she could understand the shit that goes down on the other side of the 9-1-1 hotline (and so that Jennifer Love Hewitt could get some screen time with Angela Bassett). </p>
<p id="FSRhIe">Sadly, their first call was at a cemetery, where the funeral for a gay soldier was being interrupted by a group of protesters who were, essentially, the Westboro Baptist Church. Now, before you complain about <em>9-1-1</em> even giving the Westboro Baptist Church the time of day with a subplot, especially to a head guy who was being racist toward Athena, don’t worry: That dude fell out of his wheelchair and choked on his own feces after his colostomy bag got backed up. Really. </p>
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<p id="bNh6vG">The guy nearly died because he refused to be treated by firefighters Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Chimney (Kenneth Choi), who aren’t white. This is a man who, despite literally projectile-vomiting his own shit, is incapable of having a little perspective. Once Mr. Racist went unconscious, the firefighters did treat him—and thankfully, <em>9-1-1</em> did a bit of telling instead of showing there, as the procedure apparently involved suctioning the literal crap out of him. </p>
<p id="uFG2d1">Athena then asked Maddie if she wanted to grab lunch. </p>
<p id="RJQ5Ra">And now, some weekly awards.</p>
<p id="wNdyfJ"><strong>Worst 9-1-1 Operator: </strong>While Maddie is, obviously, a very good 9-1-1 operator, there are others in her department who let their personal lives get in the way of their job—risking the lives of Angelenos in the process. Maddie’s seemingly sweet coworker Gloria has been responsible for hundreds, if not thousands, of hang-up calls like this one: </p>
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<p id="FDkqb4">No, Gloria, you don’t deserve a muffin. You deserve to get fired! </p>
<p id="RTr94T"><strong>Most Savage Gloria Comment on 9-1-1 Call: </strong></p>
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<p id="5D1Y2V">To be fair: Where is the lie? </p>
<p id="21syQw"><strong>Most Questionable Office Culture: </strong>Gloria took her warranted firing and potential prison sentence, uh, well, berating Maddie for ratting her out and yelling things like, “I showed you where we hide the good coffee pods!” We could spend forever talking about Gloria’s unparalleled sass and absurdly inappropriate bedside manner, but I’d rather talk about this coffee pod comment. It implies several concerning things: that there are good and bad coffee pods; that the Los Angeles emergency call center is wasting taxpayer dollars on <em>multiple </em>brands of coffee pods, that the employees at said call center are actively <em>hiding </em>K-cups in the office, and that the call center is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35605927">harming the environment</a> at an alarming rate. Who’s in charge here?! </p>
<p id="mAQDub"><strong>Best Response to a Racist, Literal Shit-Eater:</strong> The Westboro dude nearly let firefighter Eddie (Ryan Guzman) rescue him until he found out his last name was “Diaz” and that he’s half Mexican. Eddie responded to this by saying that he could assist the guy using his mother’s “Swedish half.” Nice. </p>
<p id="qQMWaH"><strong>Wildest Subplot That Nearly Ripped Off </strong><em><strong>Breaking Bad</strong></em><strong>:</strong> There was a subplot featuring Hen this episode in which her ex-girlfriend was trying to steal custody of her kid. It was awful stuff, and, as Hen went to confront the ex, she overdosed on some heroin and Hen … was about to <em>walk away and let her choke to death on her own vomit</em>!! </p>
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<p id="p0mqh8">First off, this was stolen from when <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGEmFpitjYw">Walter White let Jesse Pinkman’s girlfriend Jane die</a> in <em>Breaking Bad</em>. But secondly, and most importantly: Is <em>9-1-1</em> really going to make Hen turn heel?!?! </p>
<p id="AogSV9">Thankfully, Hen changed her mind and called the authorities. Still, for a minute I thought this show broke bad in the dumbest way possible. </p>
<p id="Aa63SE"><strong>Most Earnest Oliver Stark Live-Tweet: </strong>Since Angela Bassett has left the <em>9-1-1</em> live-tweet-verse, it’s up to Oliver Stark, a.k.a. sex-addict firefighter Buck, to bless the timeline with earnest tweets and—wait, what?! </p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Won’t be able to live tweet tonight as I’ll be working but will read what I can and hope you all enjoy the episode! ❤️<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/911onFOX?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#911onFOX</a> <a href="https://t.co/y2uOHPP2wV">pic.twitter.com/y2uOHPP2wV</a></p>— Oliver Stark (@oliverstarkk) <a href="https://twitter.com/oliverstarkk/status/1051944441554952193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 15, 2018</a>
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<p id="mvrV3J">Now, this really hurts, work-related or not. <em>9-1-1</em> Twitter was a little less bright Monday night. Awful news to conclude an episode filled with awful people. </p>
<p class="c-end-para" id="3p0WX5">Come back next week as our firefighter protagonists are <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmOiYn9dZvc">interviewed by a local news crew</a>—which totally isn’t a cliché!</p>
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<p>Also, that voice talking to you at the ATM is a man—a man is trapped inside the ATM</p> <p class="p--has-dropcap" id="qcfKBH">After <em>9-1-1</em> began its second season with three electrifying episodes centered on an <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/9/24/17896116/911-watch-season-2-premiere">apocalyptic earthquake</a>—a ruminative cautionary tale on the devastating effects of climate change, or just a silly excuse to destroy buildings like they’re Jenga blocks—things went back to normal for the fourth episode. (Well, <em>normal</em> by <em>9-1-1</em> standards.) And honestly? I was relieved. </p>
<p id="rYvfsJ">Don’t get me wrong: The earthquake was entertaining stuff, and a smart follow-up to Season 1’s equally dramatic plane crash. Every season should probably have something of this scale. But Ryan Murphy’s procedural is at its best when the show eschews one giant set piece for several smaller emergencies that add up to make one entertaining episode. By that metric, Monday night’s episode, “Stuck,” was in line with some of <em>9-1-1</em>’s finest—a beautiful mess of incidents that felt like they came straight out of a YouTube binge that started with “Best LOLFails 2012 Part 3/11.” </p>
<h3 id="qyWbcw">The Wildest Shit That Happened on <em>9-1-1</em> This Week </h3>
<p id="oojFo0"><em>9-1-1</em> wasted no time getting into the first emergency of night, opening on an overweight security guard chasing some vandals whom he called “ninja street artists,” which sounds like a compliment. I’ll let you in on a (perhaps morose) thing I do every time one of these scenes start: My mind begins racing on the possibilities of what horrible thing, exactly, is going to happen to require that someone call 9-1-1. This time, I considered the “ninja street artists” tossing a spray can in the security guard’s face, and it somehow getting lodged in his eye socket—<em>mid-spray</em>. I thought, maybe, one of the artists would try a parkour trick and it would go very, very wrong, and suddenly he’d be impaled by a fence. </p>
<p id="zWqYmW">Anyway, I was wrong. Because what actually happened is that the security guard tried to jump a small opening to another building the artists escaped from, failed, and fell down a narrow passage. Credit where credit is due to <em>9-1-1</em>: This outcome is certainly, uh, unique. </p>
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<p id="SK9Mo3">The guard was still alive—just trapped in the narrow passage between two buildings—so our firefighter heroes tore through an apartment in one of the buildings to help break him free. He survived another day to unsuccessfully pursue “ninja street artists.” And all thanks to … his belly? </p>
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<p id="MF9GGF">Meanwhile, some gals were having brunch at a bar when they decided to call the 9-1-1 hotline. This goes down as an all-time great <em>9-1-1</em> call. </p>
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<p id="ipaJEx">Hello, Tanya. Buzzed on mimosas, she was calling about a real emergency at one of those bars that has a mechanical bull—and no, surprisingly, the incident had nothing to do with a mechanical bull ride gone wrong. Instead, Tanya’s friend got her head stuck in a pickup truck’s gigantic, custom-made tailpipe. Mmhm, yep, you read that right: </p>
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<p id="2T2gfH">Somewhere, J.R. Smith smiles and whispers to himself, <a href="https://deadspin.com/5986076/ladies-jr-smiths-twitter-come-on-will-have-you-sopping-wet">“<em>Finally</em>.”</a> </p>
<p id="Pbi0cT">Tailpipe Lady is named Jennifer, which is a delightfully perfect name for someone who had one too many mimosas on Thirsty Thursday and got a little carried away … by sticking their head in a tailpipe. There was no drama in the actual emergency. The firefighters just needed to saw off part of the pipe, and the only moment of trepidation came when they asked if anyone had any lube to free Jennifer. Luckily, some woman enthusiastically squealed, “I have some!” Then Jennifer got out of the tailpipe—and despite the amount of mimosas she had consumed, she was still quite thirsty. </p>
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<p id="AqbWyI">If you weren’t already sensing the extremely overt theme of “Stuck,” this was a <em>9-1-1</em> episode where all the emergencies in the greater Los Angeles area involved people getting trapped in stuff—as if some cosmic force in the universe wanted all the actual emergencies to correspond with the protagonists feeling <em>metaphorically stuck</em> in certain aspects of their lives. Those metaphorical obstacles, in case you’re interested, included Season 2 newcomer Eddie (Ryan Guzman) having issues taking care of his son with cerebral palsy as a single father <em>and</em> a firefighter, while Buck (Oliver Stark) was in this strange purgatory living in the apartment of his ex-girlfriend, former emergency responder Abby (Connie Britton), while she’s taken a trip to Europe that may never end (Not for narrative reasons, but because Britton is off doing other projects.) </p>
<p id="SMyi5u">So do you get it? Everyone feels <em>stuck</em>. And the next person who was literally trapped was—wait, inside an ATM machine? </p>
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<p id="SbwC7m">How does one get stuck inside an ATM machine? For once, <em>9-1-1</em> had a reasoned answer: A technician accidentally locked himself inside and couldn’t call for help because he left his cell phone in the van. Once again, the emergency didn’t lend itself to much actual danger—for the firefighters or the poor technician inside—but that allowed Buck to have an entire conversation about Abby while simultaneously freeing the dude. The technician heard the whole thing, by the way. </p>
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<p id="1zEeFF">Finally, check out this really cute marriage proposal! </p>
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<p id="Lzus9H">God dammit—I really hate when mall escalators malfunction <em>right in the middle </em>of your proposal Unfortunately, this man’s injuries were fatal, and he died shortly after being rescued by the gang. It was quite sad—though it felt slightly less sad and a little more messed up because <em>9-1-1</em> used this dude’s tragic death as an excuse to shake the firefighters out of their metaphorical patterns of stuckness. Good for the firefighters, bad for the L.A.-area citizens trapped in a hellscape where their emergencies are synchronized to the emotional needs of a chosen few. </p>
<p id="voKB1x">I’m not sure we needed a symbolic sacrificial lamb via escalator to make this point, but, then again, this is <em>9-1-1</em>. People have died in much stranger ways—may we never forget the <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2018/3/8/17096332/911-watch-season-1-episode-8-recap">escaped zoo tiger</a> who ate the guy who once threw a pine cone at his cage. And now, some weekly awards. </p>
<p id="0IJGrq"><strong>Worst Flirting Technique:</strong> If you were wondering what sequence of events led to Jennifer getting her head stuck in a pickup truck’s tailpipe, well, let’s just say it was one man’s mating call. </p>
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<p id="IrNguV">Flirting in 2018 is <em>weird</em>, man. </p>
<p id="QuMUla"><strong>Best Acknowledgment: </strong>I’ve felt all season that it’s weird that no one on <em>9-1-1</em> has mentioned the fact Buck has been living in what is basically his ex-girlfriend’s apartment for a considerable length of time. It’s implied that Abby is never returning, and he’s just … staying in her place in perpetuity? Why is no one talking about this? Thankfully, firefighter leader Bobby (Peter Krause) became the voice of reason this week, by simply acknowledging that this the whole situation is <em>really</em> <em>strange</em>. </p>
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<p id="itRxyl">I literally screamed “Thank you!” when this happened. No, I’m totally not emotionally invested in this show. </p>
<p id="84Bemd"><strong>Best ATM Reaction:</strong> The guy who thought he was getting punk’d. </p>
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<p id="sQvgCR">To be fair, this would be a <em>great</em> prank. </p>
<p id="XeP4l8"><strong>Most Earnest Oliver Stark Tweet:</strong> I’m only just beginning to accept the depressing new reality in which Angela Bassett no longer live-tweets episodes of <em>9-1-1</em>. Her <a href="https://twitter.com/ImAngelaBassett/status/971569394210885632">tweets</a> were an iconic, essential ingredient of the <em>9-1-1</em> experience, and can never truly be replicated. However, castmate Oliver Stark is doing a solid job in her stead. What he lacks in sass and wit he makes up for in sheer wholesomeness—look at how genuinely moved he is by the acting of his costars! He makes it sound like they’re working with Steven Spielberg: </p>
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<p class="c-end-para" id="fQthCK">Come back next week for an episode that’s incredibly titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsPdlabava8">“Chaos & Dysfunction,”</a> which, if we’re being honest, could be the name of any <em>9-1-1</em> episode.</p>
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