We need to talk about 9-1-1‘s Eddie Diaz. We’ve always known about the vulnerability lurking beneath his handsome war hero exterior, but we’ve never seen it break through like we did in the final moments of Monday’s episode.
After his therapist pointed out that Eddie handles everyone else’s pain without adequately facing his own, the former firefighter reached out to some of the people he served with… only to discover that they’re all dead, even the ones he personally saved.
This broke him, sending him into a violent spiral. Terrified, Christopher called Buck, who immediately rushed over to check on his Buddie. Sobbing on the floor of his destroyed bedroom, Eddie poured his heart out: “They’re all dead! Everybody that I saved, they’re all dead. … I pulled them out, but I didn’t save them. I’m afraid.”
When Buck asked Eddie what he’s afraid of, he tearfully replied, “That I’m never going to feel normal again.”
Other emergencies worth responding to…
* Maddie and Chimney have decided to co-parent baby Jee-Yun without formally getting back together as a couple. As Maddie explained to Buck, “We grew apart, or we grew while we were apart.” Breakups are always disappointing, but this really does feel like the right move for them right now. I believe they’ll end up back together when (not if!) the time is right. I’m hopeful for that storyline in general, especially now that Maddie has conquered her fear of bathing Jee-Yun.
* I’m less hopeful about Buck’s future with Taylor, though I’m proud of him for (finally) coming clean to her about kissing Lucy. And I’m kind of surprised that Taylor caved so quickly and agreed to stay with him. She and Lucy are bound to come face to face one of these days, and it’s going to be awkward.
* Albert and his mustache are really feeling the pressures of life as firefighters, but they’re otherwise doing well.
Your thoughts on this week’s 9-1-1, specifically Eddie’s big moment? Drop ’em in a comment below.
“Christopher called Buck, who immediately rushed over to check on his Buddie.“ It’s been a painful few weeks for many in the fandom, so just wanted to say that we really appreciate you, Andy 😊
If nobody got us, we know Andy Swift got us.
I thought Buck just let Taylor continue with her assumption that it was a random woman at the bar.
Yep, he didn’t correct her when she said he kissed some rando at a bar. Definitely digging himself a bigger hole.
For sure! As soon as he didn’t clarify, you know that’s going to be revealed and his no more lies promise is done. Taylor will be gone for good then.
Can we file a class-action therapy bill against the show for that tarantula storyline?
Right?!? What the heck was that?
🤣. I’m right there.
Lol so true, there weren’t even any “warnings” on it. 😂
I love Taylor so much she deserves better than how Buck treated her. But let’s hope he learns his lesson and can be a better partner for it
They’re toast.
#1 – PLEASE get Maddie & Chimney back together ASAP! It’s breaking my heart to see them apart.
#2 – PLEASE break up Buck & Taylor! She is too wooden & unfeeling to be his love interest. He needs more of a nurturer.
#3 – That part with those humongous spiders gave me the heebie-jeebies & I think I’ll have trouble sleeping tonite. I appreciate spiders but not in my house or on my TV.
#4 – TREMENDOUS acting by Eddie tonite!
I literally cannot handle Maddie & Chimney not being together. I need them back ASAP
As sad as I am Maddie and Chim broke up, I understand why they did it. I don’t like it, but I get it. Same as to why Taylor forgave Buck that quickly, I don’t like it but I get it: she already knows Buck won’t be honest again, she’s just stealing a little more time together.
Poor Eddie. He has had so much trauma and heartache in his life.
I love Chimney but strongly dislike Maddie thus would prefer a permanent separation for them. So very, very, very tired of these ‘we must stay together for the kid(s)’ storylines on shows! Breaking up is usually the best course of action for all involved IRL. I’m disappointed that Buck is still with Taylor since many of us know who he really should be involved with romantically. Ryan Guzman gave a powerful performance tonight and broke my heart. 💔
So glad to see someone else
Seriously dislikes Maddie. Way too much time has been spent on all her neuroses. Love Chimney and would love to see him in a far less dysfunctional relationship.
I’m honestly disappointed we didn’t get more screentime for Eddie. His storyline is SO good and we really could’ve used more of that instead of the whole Buck/Taylor/Lucy mess that everyone is already over. Anyway, excellent performance from Ryan tonight, and I love how much they’ve committed to putting Eddie through it. His breakdown was painful but necessary, Chris calling Buck because he was scared for his dad tugged on my heartstrings so hard even though I was expecting it, and Buck immediately running over, taking care of Eddie, stepping into the mess with him… Can this show please just give up on trying to force a string of failed relationships on Buck and Eddie when literally everything they want and need is clearly right in front of their noses, in each other?
Eddie’s storyline is the only thing i’m still interested in. I despise the Buck/Lucy/Taylor love triangle. I’m over it, over them. Why must i watch something so entirely stupid? I’m also done with the character of Lucy, like completely done. She has become the worst addition to the show ever. Still not sure if i have it in me to watch the next episode. Not even Eddie can make me force myself to tune in for more Lucy and Buck bonding, while continuing to stick it out with Taylor. God this is so bad. Ewww. But kudos to Eddie/Ryan, his acting was on top in today’s episode, his two minutes of screen time…
I don’t see it as a love triangle: Buck isn’t torn but guilty, there’s no expectative from Lucy’s part only awkwardness and Taylor is not expecting anything for she’s already acting like they have broken up. If anything, this is the anatomy of a break up, not the actual Grey’s Anatomy.
This nonsense about “Buddie” needs to stop. Period. You just don’t suddenly become gay to appease fans of a TV show.
And how can anyone hate Lucy when she hasn’t said more than three words and kiss more than one guy since she came on the show?
Well it is a TV show and it’s 2022…we’ve seen repressed storylines on other shows. If it’s written organically, who cares? Clearly tons of people enjoy them together and if it’s done well, so what?
I think with the lack of focus on the main characters for myriad reasons and Lucy taking up a decent amount of screentime in the two episodes so far (excluding the Boston one), people just seem to hate on her. Hard to get invested in new characters when you yearn for more development with the core team.
You have no right to tell the writer of the article or the fans to stop liking a pairing – and even so they won’t, because you don’t control their feelings. The fact that you want to? Get a freaking grip, it’s a TV show
They lost me by having Lucy act like she know more than the paramedics and make fun of Chim. It was not cute, it was obnoxious. I also saw cast interviews on Facebook that she will keep flirting/having moments with Buck this season.That going on while he still in a relationship is disgusting and what causes me to stop watching a show. And this has nothing to do with wanting Buck with anyone else, at this point he can go to the moon for all I care
They’re fictional characters, dude. And plenty of people don’t discover their same-gender attraction until later on in real life too, anyway.
I don’t hate Lucy, necessarily, I just hate how they’re writing her. First they introduce her by immediately having her kiss one of the mains (yay, feminism?), and then they give her a scene where she’s So Much Smarter than everyone else, including the paramedics, despite not being a paramedic, and they top it off with her making fun of Chimney. I can *tell* that they’re trying to write a Super Cool Badass Female Character, and it is so goddamn annoying. Especially because the 118 has been a sausagefest so far and I really wanted more women in it, but I wanted them to be actual characters, not misogynist stereotypes.
I absolutely agree about Lucy. If they intended for her to be likable and wanted the character to stick around, they shot themselves in the foot with her story and characterization. She’s unbearable.
Nah. Gonna keep shipping them. And plenty of peoeple can realize their bisexual or gay later in life. It happens ALL THE TIME. A well written story can earn it. So really your shut down argument holds no water.
Taylor has become a shell of a character once the writers put them in a relationship that feels so wooden. It is clear how much more emotional intimacy Buck shares with Eddie. The scene had an odd break between them on the floor in Eddies’ bedroom and Buck putting Chris to bed, I wonder if they cut some of it. They should have had Buck just disclose the woman at the bar was Lucy. Tired storyline and continuously jarring! Coupled with Lucy’s comment about Chimney’s height, we could have saved those minutes for more Eddie. Another highlight was Maddie and Chimney’s storyline which made the Buck/Taylor bits all the more embarrassing.
Severance’s Burt and Irving they are not. Buck and Eddie’s intimacy relies on the nature of the jobs they perform. Chimney and Maddie’s, on the other hand, share intimacy that comes from a partner’s love as well as the love for a child they are both raising. There’s a subtle yet palpable difference.
Buck and Eddie’s intimacy has developed well outside the boundaries of their job. Chim and Hen are an example of coworker best friends; Buck and Eddie are something else entirely. Buck is halfway coparenting Chris at this point, and Eddie has literally compared Buck’s love for Chris to his own love for Chris, and that was very evident in this episode in particular. When Buck ran over, he was obviously terrified for Eddie, but the first thing he did was check on Chris and reassure him. Afterwards, he calmed Chris down and put him to bed. Eddie apologized to Buck for scaring Chris – that’s something you say to someone who’s responsible for the kid. They’re a family, and while it started because of their job, it is so much more than that now.
That much I agree: if anything, this storyline has made Buck and Eddie’s relationship grow beyond the boundaries of the worklife. At least it no longer feels that they would not be friends unless they were firefighters. But that doesn’t make them a coparents or a would-be-couple themselves. Not the way Chim & Maddie’storyline made them from the very begining.
Totally Agree!! Buck and Eddie should definitely NOT be a couple. Neither one of them have shown even the most remote indication that they may be gay. Why can’t they they way they are, like brothers. They both love Chris and they care for each other but please DO NOT make them a couple. That would be the end for me. I have no problem with same sex couples but this would just be too much.
Just because they don’t doesn’t mean it’s not there.
You clearly do have a problem with same-sex couples.
The fact that the showrunners think its a priority to focus on side characters a la Lucy and Taylor when the strong vast majority has already lost interest instead of focusing on important scenes between main characters is mind boggling. Small brain behavior! Buck’s scenes with Eddie and to a lesser extent, with Maddie this episode showcased his development more impactfully than his elementary bs with Taylor. If that was the point, they should have reduced the time spent. Grating at best to watch.
Buck’s arc is the most boring thing I have seen in the last few years. They have destroyed his characters by making him a cheater, a coward and a liar (he’s still lying about the person he kissed); they destroyed Taylor by turning him into a flower vase woman that’s there as a decoration of Buck’s apartment; and they have introduced a new character that brings absolutely nothing to the show.
On top of that, their acting was pretty bad and that scene was impossible to watch without having secondhand embarrassment because of how badly Megan and Oliver were acting.
The only positive thing about this episode is Eddie. His arc is beautifully done and Ryan and Gavin kill it with every scene, they show how much they care about their characters and doing them justice.
Kristen Reidel needs to stop developing arcs outside the show, that’s not how things work in TV, of course you can leave things up to the audience’s imagination, but not inflexion points. She said in her head Eddie talked to Chris about the will, Maddie and Chimney (one of the main ships of the show) broke up off camera without any build up and we only got a single sentence to confirm it, Chimney punched his brother in law and for her it’s all ok without even any kind of acknowledgment. It clearly shows that she’s not ready to be a showrunner and this job is out of her league, this season has been bad decision after bad decision.
The two new characters bring nothing to the show other than having more white guys there because there was too much diversity. Them making fun of Chimney was not fun at all, Lucy is an arrogant and if people think that’s a feminist character they should go learn something about feminism, Jonah is boring but thankfully unlike Lucy he’ll be gone next week.
They really need to stop bringing older woman to hook up with Buck, except for Taylor they are all 10 years older or more and it’s creepy. Arielle looks like Buck’s mother in some of the scenes. This is like the reserve of Leonardo Dicaprio’s love life.
I really thought that they would have learnt their lesson from whatever season 5A was (as everyone involved in the show confirmed it was wonky and looked like a different show). But it looks like we’re in for more of the same until season 6, if there is one.
I seriously am done with this. If I wanted to watch a, soap opera I’d watch The Young and the Restless
Watch General Hospital. It’s MUCH better than Y&R these days
I hate Eddie so his performance didn’t move be at all. It’s sad men can’t be really good friends, almost like brothers without fans wanting them to be something more. It’s not happening; move on. I would love to see more Athena! Glad Chim and Maddie broke up, but showed the realities of new coparenting after a traumatic event. I loved seeing Buck show up for Eddie. Also, women shouldn’t be mothers to their mates. Buck needs to mature and work on himself. Taylor deserves better!
“It’s sad men and women can’t be really good friends, without fans wanting them to be something more” See what I did there? 9-1-1 has actually had many platonic male/male friendships without attracting “shippers” but there are practically no male/female friendships where both characters are straight. On TV in general there are many same-sex friendships but there is definitely a lack of the type of friends-to-lovers same-sex relationships that people like in Buck and Eddie. You can keep shrieking otherwise but it doesn’t change reality. Now I personally don’t see it happening under the current showrunner, but the fans / younger generations will keep shipping who they want and speaking up about this type of representation. It’s 2022, people have different expectations and network TV is predictably falling behind and losing relevance.
Yes to everything you said except hating Eddie. I don’t know how to take Eddie. I honestly see this Eddie thing leading t9 h8m need a facility or h8m kill8ng himself. In either case Buck will raise Christopher. Maybe that will open the door for Christopher caregiver to comeback. She bought lightness to the show. I do question why so much of Buck’s life is on screen while others are off. I don’t like the new people. Unnecessary. Also give me more call center. They are great.
It’s pretty sad that the Chimney and Madney break-up, and the Eddie and Bobby apology, and even more lead-up/aftermath of Eddie’s breakdown, all happened off-screen, yet we saw excessive amounts of Buck’s torrid relationship drama that no one seems to want. I agree with the comment that this show has become a soap opera – but not even a good one!
I think the reality of PTSD being exposed is no needed in our society. Post Traumatic emotions can be held and hidden for years but eventually the how come? What if? And why me? must be reconciled with the reality that we can’t dictate life like an acted out script.
Eddie’s storyline is so important to portray. PTSD and all of the issues facing veterans is no joke, so I’m glad they took the story there. I am NOT glad that they aren’t giving it the time it deserves. Reserving most of it for the final few minutes and then cutting the convo off waaaay before it was done was cheap. Props to Ryan and Gavin for wonderful performances. Eddie and Chris are pretty much the only reason to tune in right now.
The episode was too full of calls, Taylor’s super sad big eyes and Lucy, who brings nothing good at all to the show. Kristen is so out of touch with the audience at this point, it’s painful.
Show us these conversations like Eddie apologizing to Bobby. And how he actually decided to go back to therapy? Show us Chim apologize to Buck. Show us Eddie and Christopher talk about the will (preferably with Buck present).
Lucy has turned out to be quite the arrogant mary sue and she can’t leave soon enough.
i can’t believe what they’ve done to buck’s character. he cheats. he lies. he asks her to move in to assuage his own guilt. then, when he and taylor spinelessly agree to stay in a clearly doomed relationship, based on the agreement for complete honesty, he LIES AGAIN by omission, when he doesn’t correct her saying he kissed a “random woman”.
and based on interviews, it sounds like he might keep emotionally cheating through the season? GROSS.
get rid of Lucy. get Buck back in therapy and realizing how disgusting this all is.
I stopped watching this show long ago and judging by these reviews, it is getting sillier and sillier
no idea why people keep on watching it…
i love a few of the characters so it’s difficult to stop, and I naively keep hoping it will improve. you had the right idea, i’m afraid.
I think Eddie should be Performer of the Week! He was amazing and my heart was breaking!
I just love this show… So don’t bother me on Monday nights… The ending of last night’s episode, i was ugly crying for him… Bless his heart…
I honestly think they are aiming to kill of Eddie and no I’m not a Buddie shipper.
I thought the ending was fantastic, being a survivor of PTSD, and suffering from panic and anxiety. It really hit the nail on the head and explained a lot about these disorders. Thanks for doing this!