9-1-1 ended its eighth season with a stretch of episodes starting to adapt to the brand new regular: a future with out the 118’s coronary heart and captain, Bobby Nash (Peter Krause), following his heartbreaking dying. And when stars Oliver Stark (Buck) and Aisha Hinds (Hen) stopped by TV Insider’s workplace forward of the Season 8 finale, we needed to ask them about their hopes for Season 9. Stark’s reply takes under consideration that devastating loss. (Watch the total video interview above.)
“For me, the primary factor is that the form of gravitas of dropping Bobby is used as a catalyst to mature Buck. I believe the expansion has been there over the seasons, however I believe this can be a actual alternative to take him into his subsequent iteration, no matter that finally ends up being,” he shared. “However I believe a extra grounded worldly Buck can come out of this. I don’t know what that can appear like, however I believe character-wise, I believe that’s the subsequent step.”
Hinds additionally regarded ahead, and for her, it was about coming off the finale, which noticed the 118 rally collectively to save lots of victims of a constructing collapse, together with discovering a trapped Athena (Angela Bassett) and Chimney (Kenneth Choi) — who mended the stress between them since Bobby died after giving him the one anti-viral — and rescuing Buck and Ravi (Anirudh Pisharody). It additionally noticed Chimney actually step up like a captain ought to, Eddie (Ryan Guzman) transfer again to Los Angeles, and Hen and Karen (Tracie Thoms) lastly undertake Mara.
“I’m so excited,” Hinds advised us, looking forward to the brand new season within the fall. “I actually am. I believe that this season was such a full season, and it’s attention-grabbing that our final episode known as ‘Seismic Shifts.’ There have been some seismic shifts all through the season, so I’m simply trying ahead to what now blooms after these seismic shifts and Hen and her household simply residing usually. That’s positively not the material of 9-1-1. So we’ll simply see what occurs and I’m open and obtainable to all of it.”
And hey, possibly that can even embrace a brand new relationship for Buck. Whereas 9-1-1 boasts strong {couples} like Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and Chimney and Hen and Karen and did simply lose its basis in Bobby and Athena’s, Buck and Eddie’s love lives have been messy, to place it mildly. (The present even addressed the potential for “Buddie” in Season 8, with Buck’s ex, Tommy, performed by Lou Ferrigno Jr., calling him out on potential emotions for his finest pal. Buck denied having any.)
“I might really like to see Buck grounded in a relationship and experiencing it within the fullest approach, somebody who would in all probability extract that finest facet of him like an Abby [Connie Britton], however with the liberty that he now needs to be the fullest model of himself with a Tommy,” stated Hinds.
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9-1-1, Season 9, Fall 2025, Thursdays, 8/7c, ABC