First time hearing about this, what is station 19? :O
Oh boy okay, please bear with me!
I’m gonna go off for a second and add pictures to make it easier to read lmfao
Station 19 is a TV show following the story of Firefighters, all working at the same station. It’s set in Seattle, and often has crossovers (not just special crossover episodes but the normal episodes are often connected in very small ways) with Grey’s Anatomy. (which i do not watch and had no issue following Station 19 despite it!). There is 4 seasons so far, and the 4th season is still airing.
So, honestly pretty standard and soapy, but it’s ABSOLUTELY worth a try and here is WHY:
You first think it’s gonna mainly follow the story of the main character, Andy Herrera, the daughter of the Captain of Station 19, but the more you watch, the more it focuses on literally every firefighters working with her too, and pretty evenly at that!
Not to nerd out too much about it but that’s kinda why it lowkey became my main comfort show, I’ve never watched something that depicted found family and character developments (good or bad), and character interactions so well. All the characters have pretty fleshed out relationships with one another, they are all extremely close to each other (with some duos closer than most) and the cast chemistry as a whole is phenomenal.
Like, it’s about fighting fires and saving people in distress, but the show doesn’t forget to balance it out with a lot of just... chill, funny, or emotional character moments and that’s its strongest point by FAR. The scenes where all or a few of them are just hanging out are definitely my favorites, and here’s the great thing: THERE IS A LOT OF THIS, which is just so refreshing to see from a high-stakes drama like this. Season 3 gets a little dark and all over the place but y’know, just a rough patch to go through, and still plenty of very interesting developments and plotlines going on that are worth following.
It tackles a lot of modern day issues, which can be a little tacky or on the nose sometimes, but it’s pretty well done and respectfully so.
Not to mention the main cast is very diverse as well as the one-off characters, and their respective struggles regarding their differences is handled with care, at least that’s been my impression. So it doesn’t feel tokenistic, but again, that’s only my own point of view on it, i’m not the authority on this obviously.
There are ~7/8 main characters in the Station (it varies depending on the seasons), and among this ensemble: two of them aren’t straight (one bisexual woman and one gay man) and only two of them are caucasian, and no, it’s not the lead character! (Andy is latina)
So all in all, it’s one of the most organically diverse cast I’ve seen in quite a while, and the focus of the show lies more with their relationships with each other (platonic mostly but romantic as well) and the family they made for themselves, more than with the firefighting itself. Which, by the way, there’s plenty of (of course), and it is always extremely cool looking to see and learn about. And firefighting isn’t JUST about fires, which makes every episodes nicely different and always exciting.
So anyway, please give it a try, watch a few episodes, if it’s not for you that’s completely fine, but it is an interesting little gem of wonderful found-family goodness and very loveable characters! :)
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