911 – Holy Mom of God – Evaluation: An Episode No One Was Prepared For

Spoilers forward!

This week’s 9-1-1 Holy Mom of God, the directorial debut of Aisha Hinds, our beloved Hen, is one for the books.

The principle storyline revolves round Bobby (Peter Krause) assembly once more in surprising circumstances his estranged mom Ann (Leslie Ann Warren) and his brother Charlie (Sean O’Bryan). Ann is the chief of a mega-church occurring a tour of some type, and she’s going to spend only a few days in L.A. with Charlie.

After an enormous accident occurs on the church and the 118 comes to assist, Charlie reads it as divine windfall attempting to reunite his household, which makes him set up a dinner with Ann, Bobby, and Athena (Angela Bassett) — evidently, this assembly doesn’t go as anticipated, with the rising tensions between Ann and Bobby main them to say painful stuff that has been buried for years to one another. The 118 offers with the emergency of an abusive husband attempting to kill his spouse, making Bobby take into consideration the onerous selection his mom confronted when she left his abusive father. Then, Bobby goes to her church, getting to look at as she passes out in entrance of her viewers. Later, he discovers that Ann is going through terminal most cancers and doesn’t have a lot time left, and in a stupendous scene, they reconnect and make amends.

In the meantime, Buck (Oliver Stark) is struggling due to Eddie’s (Ryan Guzman) departure. Though Eddie doesn’t even seem on this episode, he ghosts the narrative from the get-go, from Bobby mistakenly calling Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody) Eddie to Buck bringing his greatest buddy up in nearly each dialog.

It’s necessary that Buck can’t sleep in Eddie’s home and may’t unpack his stuff — so after he goes to Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Chimney’s (Kenneth Choi) home to stick with them for some time, Maddie means that Buck ought to make different buddies. Buck tries to befriend Ravi, asking him out for some drinks after work, however that seems awkward after Buck retains speaking about Eddie.

That’s when Ravi brings Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) to the desk and leaves them alone. It’s Buck and Tommy’s first assembly after the breakup. They reconnect and spend the night time collectively, however within the morning after, Tommy drops a bombshell: he’d be comfy with seeing Buck extra typically now that “his competition is gone”, which infuriates Buck, who instantly acknowledges that Tommy is speaking about Eddie and solutions that he doesn’t “have to want to sleep with everyone [he has] feelings for” and he doesn’t have “to have feelings for everyone [he sleeps with]”.

“I don’t have to want to sleep with everyone I have feelings for, and I don’t have to have feelings for everyone I sleep with.”

Later, Buck brings this to Maddie, who shortly affirms that it “wouldn’t be so crazy” if Buck was certainly in love with Eddie. Curiously, the “in love with Eddie” half was by no means mentioned by both Tommy or Maddie; the primary one talked about “competition” with out saying a lot after this, and the latter solely reacted to one thing Buck himself delivered to the desk.

“What’s that even supposed to mean, I’m living in Eddie’s old house, therefore I must be in love with him?”

“Holy Mother of God” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie. Photograph: Christopher Willard/ABC © 2025 Disney. All rights reserved.

Buck denies it, saying that Eddie is straight, and he would not be “hopelessly pining” for his straight bestie… Which is fascinating as a result of he mentioned the identical to Tommy. Eddie being straight in Buck’s imaginative and prescient appears an enormous downside that retains him from contemplating that they could possibly be greater than buddies. If Eddie turned out to be not straight, nonetheless…

Because the episode ends, Bobby reconciles together with his mom, Buck unpacks his stuff and makes his new place his personal, and Athena is known as to an emergency that leads her to the posh cruise ship The Odyssey — this ends with a cliffhanger, so to know extra about what occurred after this you must watch this week’s Physician Odyssey.

Holy Mom of God had me dizzy after its ending. Aisha makes a terrific debut as a director, delivering an episode that’s each stuffed with comedy (Ravi’s return as a alternative to Eddie is a good issue on this) and drama — particular props to the hair division for what they did with Maddie and Buck on this one, nice work. I’m normally not a fan of how this present redeems the mother and father, many instances forgetting to correctly cope with the unhealthy they’ve completed, however on this case, it labored: Leslie Ann Warren and Sean O’Bryan are nice additions to this universe, and the Bobby-lore introduced by their characters is nothing wanting emotional.

“Holy Mother of God” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Leslie Ann Warren as Ann, Peter Krause as Bobby. Photograph: Christopher Willard/ABC © 2025 Disney. All rights reserved.

Additionally, this episode marks Tommy’s return to tie up some free ends relating to his relationship with Buck, implicitly confirming that their breakup occurred as a result of he was jealous of Eddie, making their relationship haunted by Eddie from the start to the tip — every part about them, even their one night time stand and subsequent battle, is about Eddie too. Curiously, Buck exhibits little to no real interest in going again to a critical relationship with Tommy too, even admitting that he may need used him to neglect about Eddie. I don’t have any insider info, but it surely’s fascinating how this 12 months’s first three episodes had so many issues to say about Buck and Eddie — it appears to be like like Buddie canon will not be a distant, not possible, loopy factor anymore. It truly could possibly be simply across the nook.

Now inform me how you’re feeling about this episode! Be happy to go away a remark together with your impressions and theories, and thanks for studying!