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The most recent episode of 9-1-1 was one thing wildly particular, a real rollercoaster. We had an uncommon abduction wherein a lady steals her mother-in-law’s ashes, a person sneezing his guts out, and at last, a younger boy rescued from a gap along with his older brother’s assist. We additionally had many confessions and revelations about wishes, pregnancies, and previous relationships.
Let’s begin with the primary confession: Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) suggests a second little one to Chimney (Kenneth Choi). After the time Mara (Askyler Bell) spent dwelling with them, she believes a sibling can be companion to their daughter. Chimney is hesitant at first, given the hurdles of the primary being pregnant. However after the emergency wherein a toddler helps to save lots of his brother, Chimney modifications his thoughts. And whereas they set up some guidelines that ought to make this second being pregnant a much less traumatic expertise, Maddie confesses to Chimney that she’s already pregnant, and that was the way in which she discovered to disclose with out being too surprising.
“Confessions” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Kenneth Choi as Chimney, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Maddie. Photograph: Ray Mickshaw/ABC © 2024 Disney. All rights reserved.
The second confession: whereas celebrating their 6-month relationship, Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) reveals he was as soon as engaged to Buck’s (Oliver Stark) ex, Abby (former common star Connie Britton). Buck begins spiraling then, looking for Maddie and Josh (Bryan Safi) for recommendation. He’s troubled by the concept of Tommy having lied to Abby about his true sexuality. By the top of the episode, nonetheless, he tells Tommy about their shared bond over Abby, and he asks Tommy to maneuver in with him. Tommy, nonetheless, believes he’s destined to be Buck’s first man, not final, after which breaks up with him.
Additionally, after a long time away from the confessional sales space, Eddie (Ryan Guzman) confesses to Father Brian (Gavin Stenhouse) all the pieces that led Christopher (Gavin McHugh) to maneuver to Texas, and the way he lied to Chris, Buck, and his ex-girlfriend within the course of. He doesn’t settle for the penances prompt by the Father, refusing to let the ache go. Later, Father Brian runs into Eddie in public, and so they have an attention-grabbing dialog about disguises (the mustache being part of one), guilt, and permitting pleasure into life. That results in probably the most surprising (but additionally the best, funniest) scene: after shaving the mustache, Eddie dances round his home half-naked, Dangerous Business type. He’s interrupted by a lately dumped Buck, and so they drink their beers in silence, comfortably sharing their firm whereas they undergo their stuff.
“Confessions” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Ryan Guzman as Eddie. Photograph: Ray Mickshaw/ABC © 2024 Disney. All rights reserved.
Okay, there’s lots to unpack right here. Beginning with the second Madney being pregnant: I’m so completely satisfied they had been lastly given one other plot, this time a lighter one (at the least for now). I’m interested in how they’re going to make this dramatic and traumatic ultimately (at this level, everyone knows that’s how issues work on 9-1-1.) However sticking to this episode, I’m pleased with these two as a pair, with their wholesome communication and cute moments.
In the case of Tommy breaking apart with Buck, it is smart to me. This present by no means developed Tommy that a lot, as he barely appeared on-screen and his few moments with Buck had been nearly completely associated to Eddie one way or the other. So his complete journey to date felt just like the present telling us that he’s Buck’s first queer expertise, the one who teaches him to really feel snug about his queerness, but additionally present us that the issues Buck had in earlier relationships aren’t gone as a result of Buck’s courting a person. So in 8.05, “Masks”, we see them so distant from one another on body, and Tommy doesn’t know lots about Buck’s life, and he’s at all times wanting from the skin, unable to be part of his boyfriend’s circles of buddies and life usually.
“Confessions” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Lou Ferrigno Jr. as Tommy, Oliver Stark as Buck. Photograph: Ray Mickshaw/ABC © 2024 Disney. All rights reserved.
This stays true in 8.06 “Confessions” — they’re celebrating their 6-month anniversary, however Buck doesn’t purchase Tommy something, whereas Tommy buys him tickets to a basketball recreation. However Buck doesn’t like basketball — the entire basketball factor in 7.04 was all about Buck going after Tommy… Or Eddie… Or each… I don’t know if he has nonetheless figured that out. Additionally, it’s price noticing that at this second Tommy jokes about Buck taking Eddie as an alternative of him to the basketball recreation, and I feel this fits their relationship a lot, haunted by Eddie from the beginning. Anyway, what I feel Tommy really meant when he stated “I’m your first, not your last” is that whereas Buck appears excited to deepen their relationship, he’s not conscious of how little they discuss, how little they learn about one another… And that’s probably the most Buck factor Buck might do, to be unable to acknowledge how little he’s invested on this relationship, making an attempt to guard the connection tougher than truly having fun with the connection itself.
Lastly, Eddie letting the ache go (at the least for a second) and embracing pleasure was so lovely to observe. This was really Ryan Guzman’s second to shine. I can’t wait to be stunned by what else Eddie’s storyline has to supply. This character has at all times been a chief instance of queercoding in narratives, and whereas I can by no means say for certain what’s occurring on this present, Eddie’s narratives this 12 months have been extra queercoded than ever. That little Buddie second on the finish was superior as nicely, displaying us as soon as once more that they’ll at all times be there for one another, and what they’ve will stay, and no boyfriend or girlfriend will have the ability to change that. Wild episode, as acknowledged earlier, and I can’t wait to find what else this season has for us.
Now inform me what you concentrate on this episode, or hit the feedback with theories, please! Thanks for studying!
