I am still catching up on this season of 9-1-1. I love the guest stars they get Greg Evigan and Shari Belafonte for tiny parts. So nice to see them on the screen.

That was a really good episode of 9-1-1 -- excellent pacing, the right 9-1-1 style balance between heartwrenching and feel good, and one hell of a cliffhanger. Long reaction post is long:

Spoilery for 3x17: I was so relieved that the incident between Athena and the serial rapist didn't include sexual violence. It would have been easy to go there, even just verbal threats; but I think the wordless audio of the incident was perfectly horrifying. I did like at the end how May insisted that Athena be in her prom photos, and that she was proud of her mom for doing her job; it felt just slightly bitter because of how thoroughly May went after Athena and Athena's job for a sensationalized college essay. And I mean -- that felt right, teenagers are absolutely that fickle and emotionally variable, but my grown-ass adult self was side-eyeing May's earnestness like "Oh *now^ you find value in what your mother does and the pride Athena has in her work." Like it took Athena being beat to shit and getting a brilliant nearly single-handed collar on a violent rapist that wasn't on anyone's radar for May to be circumspect about her mom's work. Too real, lol.

As for the cliffhanger, I didn't realize until I saw Connie Britton's name on the credit scrawl that Abbie was returning *this season*, for more than a cameo -- I thought Abbie was slated to return *next* season, so this was a delight. Abbie is, I believe, my favorite character that Connie Britton has ever played, which is saying something because I have watched things specifically because she was acting in them!

Spoiler that was in the promo for the finale: I was DELIGHTED by the line drop in the trailer: "I'm looking for my fiancé!"

I started writing...a really long thing about Buck's relationships tied my reaction to the above promo, but it started to get rambly, so I dumped it in notepad to noodle at later for a future post.

And now Jack McGee, Noah Bean, and Jessica Tuck in an ep.

I started writing...a really long thing about Buck's relationships tied my reaction to the above promo, but it started to get rambly, so I dumped it in notepad to noodle at later for a future post.

I look forward to reading it. I also have...thoughts. But largely inarticulate!

Ice Ice Baby! hahaha

Happy Birthday, Tim, wherever you are.

I finally started watching both 911 and 911 Lonestar. Last night was gross on Lonestar. But lots of HSQ. And it's great to see Gina Torres .

I'm looking forward to the big crossover event

And a shout out to the Hellmouth! Gina Torres has been great, but I might never get over the level of squick in tonight's episode.

Now I'm curious. What was the shoutout?

There was lava bubbling up from an underground volcano eruption, and one of the characters said something about how they had their very own hellmouth.