911 – There Is No Place Like House & Masks

Spoilers forward!

Firstly of There isn’t any Place Like House, issues are nonetheless similar to how they had been on the finish of 9-1-1’s seventh season: Bobby (Peter Krause) isn’t the Captain of the 118 anymore, Gerrard (Brian Thompson) is the brand new boss, Christopher (Gavin McHugh) remains to be in Texas dwelling along with his grandparents, and Hen (Aisha Hinds) and Karen (Tracie Thoms) are nonetheless not allowed to foster Mara (Askyler Bell). Because the title says, this episode comes to repair most of this stuff — and this time, assist comes from essentially the most sudden place.

The episode aired some time in the past, so by now you most likely know that Gerrard performs a giant half in fixing the scenario. He units up a lure to Councilwoman Olivia Ortiz (Veronica Falcón), utilizing his bodycam to report certainly one of her depraved schemes. This video is proven in court docket later, exposing the politician — and that’s how Bobby turns into the 118 Captain once more, and that’s how Mara returns to Hen and Karen.

However why such a villainous character as Gerrard would do one thing like this? Somebody that’s been downright abusive and bigoted since his very first appearence on the present — was the accident within the premiere sufficient to alter his coronary heart? The reply, as common, is just not so easy, and I believe this episode does an excellent job making it clear that Gerrard is just not an excellent particular person and that he hasn’t earned any form of redemption.

First, There isn’t any Place Like House opens with Gerrard having some buddy time with Buck (Oliver Stark). The previous man repeatedly says that Buck’s era is “weak” and “fragile” — they’re all snowflakes, he says — and there’s extra to it! Finances points are actually a factor, and a few individuals from the firehouse should be fired, so Gerrard decides that Buck would be the one to decide on who can be laid off. From the very starting, it’s clear that this man hasn’t modified in any respect. If something, Gerrard discovered the best way to cover his bigotry, making it appear like it’s simply his method of being a demanding boss.

And I believe the writers discovered a wise approach to give closure to those arcs on the proper second with out dragging issues for an excessive amount of. Now, in a stunning flip of occasions, Gerrard is the brand new technical advisor of Hotshots, and all the pieces’s again to regular… Other than Christopher. Eddie (Ryan Guzman) remains to be coping with the absence of his son — there’s a storyline on this episode a few male cheerleader with an absent father that’s all about Eddie coping with his loss and with the turmoil in his head. Throughout some cheerleading, the teenager has his pelvis twisted in an accident, and that’s the second Eddie and Hen come to motion. It’s good to have paramedic Eddie again! Additionally good to have him paired with Hen — who in the mean time was additionally having issues with having her little one again. Lastly, a tiger dwelling in an house assaults its proprietor and his landlord, which offers some enjoyable scenes with the entire 118, and provides Chimney (Kenneth Choi) a second to shine.

“There isn’t any Place Like House” – 9-1-1. Pictured: Aisha Hinds as Hen, Tracie Thoms as Karen. Photograph: Christopher Willard/ABC © 2024 Disney. All rights reserved.

Total, it was an excellent episode, a pleasant approach to begin the season for actual. I like Veronica Falcón’s appearing, she is unbelievable — I’d be keen to have Ortiz for one more couple of episodes simply to have her appearing reverse Aisha Hinds. The scene on the court docket was nice too — not solely a giant second for Hen but additionally a giant second for the 118. And I’m completely happy Bobby is lastly again — the sequence by which Chim, Eddie, Buck, and Hen all come to his door to ask for assist was flawless, the most effective second of the episode. I used to be additionally happy by the Eddie storyline — it was a really considerate approach to let the viewers find out about his emotions relating to not solely Christopher however possibly additionally his relationship along with his father.

And as a lot as I used to be completely happy for Hen and Karen to have Mara again, I completed 8.04 sure that they’d catch a break in any case they’ve been via. Then Masks got here and oh boy, it’s truthful to say that their centric episode really occurred this week. This time, Denny (Declan Pratt) virtually dies crushed by a automotive, including gasoline to the present drama between Hen and Karen relating to the quantity of labor the firefighters have on holidays, which makes Hen lose essential moments together with her household. Now that they’ve Mara again, Karen is fearful about Hen not having sufficient good household moments together with her.

I believe it was an excellent storyline, possibly positioned on the mistaken time, because it feels too quickly to have a storyline this heavy (with regards to Denny virtually dying) simply after they gained their daughter again. However I believe the arguing between the couple was an fascinating battle designed to make us take into consideration how holidays could be a second of enjoyable for everybody however first responders, who should be there to maintain everybody protected. Additionally associated to security in holidays, Athena (Angela Bassett) has a brief, stunning storyline involving youngsters and a number of clowns (that one clown bit was enjoyable.)

Additionally, Buck is coping with a attainable curse transmitted by a corpse he used as ornament by chance. After dislocating his left shoulder and waking up the subsequent day along with his face lined in boils, Buck is decided to interrupt the Billy Boils curse. For that, he could have the assistance of Eddie and his boyfriend Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.). This storyline was humorous at first, however because the episode went on, I used to be amazed by what number of ideas had been working via my head. There’s an elephant within the room, proper? Buck, Tommy, Eddie. I believe the elephant has been there because the very first time Buck and Tommy kissed, as their relationship appears so intertwined with Eddie from the start.

I had many questions throughout my first watch, primarily about the place the present is headed after this. Is that this about to change into a love triangle? Or is that this already one? Or is it a 3rd factor to be disclosed — like a approach to make this new relationship be accepted by followers? Tommy visits Buck on the hospital and finds Eddie already there — this scene is enjoyable as a result of it highlights the shut bond between Buck and Eddie, who are actually ending one another sentences. Then, the face boils — there is a very fast candy second of Eddie taking good care of Buck’s wounds, and whereas the second itself might be interpreted in many various methods, it’s fascinating that it exists in any case. Additionally, the similarities between Eddie and Tommy are as soon as once more highlighted right here; they’ve a lot in widespread. Tommy has additionally some candy moments, as he takes care of Buck, and on the finish of the episode, he appears pleased with him.

All of that is to say that this episode makes some fascinating decisions, and it appears protected to imagine that Buck and Eddie are one another’s particular person (not essentially in a romantic method, although) — proper now, they’ve this very robust friendship (which is at instances very platonic), and I don’t assume that’s altering any quickly. They are going to all the time be there for one another, and what they’ve will stay, no boyfriend or girlfriend will be capable of change that, and the present apparently desires us to know this. Now, if Eddie between Buck and Tommy is only a approach to make Buck’s new relationship extra palatable to the viewers, or if there’s a storyline there ready to be developed, that is still to be seen.

My idea is that, if Buck’s relationship with Tommy is to finish, there gained’t be drama like what occurred with Eddie and Marisol. I really feel like they wish to make Buck’s first queer expertise as easy as attainable, so I do not assume there can be any developments relating to Tommy’s bigotry in season 2 — we’ll should act like these issues did not occurred (which is unlucky.) All that Masks does is to indicate that Buck and Tommy are sometimes totally different from one another, and solely time will inform what this implies for each (or ought to I say the three?) of them. I even have this idea {that a} romantic relationship between Buck and Eddie is not off the playing cards — I do not assume it is one thing that may occur quickly, but when they wish to go there… Effectively, the desk is about.

Lastly, I have to say that I liked the Halloween costumes. I laughed a lot throughout that preliminary sequence of Bobby dressed up as a vampire utilizing a humorous voice with the youngsters, Chim having the time of his life throughout Halloween, and Eddie failing to scare the little ones. Additionally, it is so good that Hen has two wonderful costumes on this episode! The manufacturing right here was wonderful, make-up, costumes, the Halloween decorations — it’s been some time since I had a lot enjoyable with an excellent Halloween-themed episode like this one.

Now inform me your ideas! What do you concentrate on these final episodes? Hit the feedback with theories and ideas, please! And thanks for studying!