🚨NEW EPISODE🚨
From sprinkler splashes to fireplace ashes, I gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this
This week Han, Cil, and Rachel make the friendship bracelets, take the moment (or several hours) and wade into the psychological depths of Season 4 Episode 5 of 9-1-1, “Buck Begins.”
We dive deep into one of the most demented, genius character origin stories the show has ever pulled off, unpacking the reveal that Buck was born a savior baby for his late brother Daniel and just how much of Buck's entire personality traces back to it. We bring the receipts too — actual psychology and medical research on emotional neglect, abandonment, and complex PTSD, because apparently every source out there studied Evan Buckley without knowing it. And of course, we drag Margaret and Philip Buckley through the mud for their station visit, because "we're proud of you for saving people like you were born to do" does not count as an apology!
From there we follow Buck cross country, breaking down every job on his postcard tour (mixologist, ranch hand, aspiring Navy SEAL, we catalog all of it), Maddie's gut punch of a goodbye note, and how a guy at a bar in Peru saying "you go, we go" somehow rerouted Buck's entire life to L.A. We also get into Athena's one scene this episode doing more parenting in thirty seconds than the Buckleys managed in thirty years!
Then there's Eddie, quietly rearranging his entire understanding of Buck in real time. We go on a real tangent about the Village People being extremely queer coded, and connect the dots between Margaret's "you think you're indestructible" and a certain someone telling Buck he's "not expendable" nine episodes later. He's also the first one to reach Buck in that fire, obviously, because nobody gets between these two being there for each other first.
You're on your own, kid. Yeah, you can face this You're on your own, kid. You always have been
Episode title inspired by “You’re On Your Own Kid” by Taylor Swift