“showrunner Kristen Reidel told EW ahead of tonight’s episode.
So what does that really mean?
And sometimes he maybe tries to shoulder everyone else’s burden and doesn’t worry about himself so much.
Eddie (Ryan Guzman, background), Athena (Angela Bassett), and Bobby (Peter Krause) attend Hen and Karen’s wedding on ‘9-1-1’.Jack Zeman/FOX
But in [episode] 16, a roof falls on his back.
And the first time Bobby’s drinking became a problem was after he’d had a back injury.
And so, in a lot of ways, the triggers were there.
It was touching to see Eddie (Ryan Guzman) come talk him off that ledge.
To all of us, it was a fitting to Eddie’s journey.
And Bobby has always been there.
Bobby has always been the person who gave him advice or encouraged him to get help.
And so, to have this full-circle moment of Eddie being there for Bobby…. Why was he ready now?
I think, for a long time, Eddie thought coming back was going to solve his problem.
And it wouldn’t have.
He’s on a journey to being a better Eddie, a happier Eddie.
It felt like that was the moment that he could come back because the job was just the job.
The job wasn’t the thing that was going to save him.
We just wanted something happy for Hen and Karen.
Let’s fix it today.
Let’s make the day that you didn’t get to have last time.”
Maddie and Chimney’s relationship
Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) also finally returns to work…
I think when Maddie first came back, things were still very messy.
She had been gone so long, she and Chimney break up.
So weshouldread a lot into her food-truck run-in with Chimney (Kenneth Choi), then?
I think that the end, we sort of saw as like a meet cute.
It’s their second chance and we will see more of them hopefully next season.
What made you wait until now to bring them back together romantically?
“Boston” was honestly one of the trickiest episodes for us.
It felt like they each needed to process, and remember how to trust each other.
And I think we’ve seen little pieces of that since they’ve returned to LA.
We wanted to give them a little more time to heal before we brought them back together.
Why couldn’t they last?
And that all comes from Buck’s fear of being alone.
Taylor didn’t seem to fight very hard to stay.
I think that Buck and Taylor breaking up has been inevitable for some time.
And I think that there’s a part of Taylor that knew that.
And you might see on both sides.
I think that they were both just waiting for the inevitable.
It’s just felt to them for some time like this relationship was eventually going to implode.
I don’t think Taylor’s a bad guy here.
Vacations don’t usually go well on9-1-1…
I mean, dinners don’t go well on9-1-1.
Proposals don’t go well on9-1-1.
What else do you hope to explore in season 6?
Basically just more fun.
I think that was a bit of an ingredient that maybe was missing this year.
So yeah, just more crazy emergencies and just more of our people balancing the job in their lives.
and looking forward to lots of fun and cool stuff for next year.
