Following Athena’s shooting, the 118 gathers at the hospital awaiting news. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the trafficking ring is determined to silence Athena and anyone who gets in his way for good.
^(Originally aired) ^(7 May 2026)
Following Athena’s shooting, the 118 gathers at the hospital awaiting news. Meanwhile, the mastermind behind the trafficking ring is determined to silence Athena and anyone who gets in his way for good.
^(Originally aired) ^(7 May 2026)
Buck is faced with his past after an electrical emergency call. Meanwhile, Maddie learns to navigate her working relationships now that she has become a supervisor.
^(Originally aired) ^(30 April 2026)
Tim Minear does an interview with decider. Had an interview conversation.
Just figured you all would appreciate a complete noob to the fandom validating that you all are not exactly reaching when you see this pairing in the subtext.
I had never read a Buddie fanfic before yesterday and didn’t realize there was a huge fandom for the pairing until then. I’ve just been binge watching it while doing a boring work project since I liked Lone Star so much and the crossover episode was great. So that’s the context we’re talking about here.
Anyway, it just seemed blatant from the first episode with Eddie that they were setting him up as a romantic partner for Buck in the long run. If that’s not what the show’s writers were going for, then they’re not very good at their craft because they have so, so clearly telegraphed that from the beginning.
Like when Eddie is dating Ana and Christopher doesn’t connect with her, and they mention the zoo, and then Eddie pipes up that Buck takes Christopher there all the time.
Plus, it seems really clear that Eddie is either demisexual and/or gay as hell and doesn’t realize it yet on account of all the toxic masculinity and Catholic guilt.
And now I just watched “Buck, Bothered and Bewildered,” and literally the whole time it was obvious he was after Eddie, not Tommy. That’s the point where I cracked and looked up spoilers because Buck and Tommy getting together was NOT how I saw that going.
Anyway, thought you all might appreciate the validation, haha.
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Photos of Angela, Aisha, Oliver and Ryan (no Kenny) on the Disney red carpet!
Buck is faced with his past after an electrical emergency call. Meanwhile, Maddie learns to navigate her working relationships now that she has become a supervisor.
^(Originally aired) ^(30 April 2026)
He says my favorite thing I use to do to my kids. Then he drops the doll. 🤣🤦🏻♀️
Now, yeah, Eddie is still in the closet, the way I see it is that they've firmly established he doesn't wanna date women, we don't know why exactly, maybe we'll find out in the next season, and I definitely have a problem with how his NDE in the finale episode was not about him but actually in service of Athena's storyline, but overall, S9 was Eddie's season and I'm sure most of us agree. As for the stabbing, maybe they'll address it next season. Like how in the S4 finale, Eddie's NDE was from Buck's POV but then in S5, it had major repercussions for Eddie's character. So I guess we'll have to wait and see.
As for S9, EDDIE DIAZ DID HAVE A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND WELL THOUGHT OUT ARC. I was so caught up in waiting for a payoff to the subplots about Eddie's absolute repulsion to dating women, I couldn't see and appreciate what was right in front of me. Hear me out.
This season we’ve seen Eddie—who's always been very reliant on the chain of command of it all—consistently being thrown in situations where he struggles with the credibility and the faith he can place in institutions & systems (that are supposed to heal and help people). It began with churches/organized religion in Dia de Muertos, then later law enforcement, legal institutions, social workers....with how they failed Abigail, Buck, Esteban and the other immigrants, possibly Theo too which he saw as an inevitability. He becomes disillusioned with these institutions/the system at times, after watching them fail the exact same people he and his team have worked so hard to save (imo this also ties back a little to his PTSD arc from S5, where he saved his teammates but none of it mattered, bc they all died anyway) and despite the constant setbacks and discouragement, he just never gives up. He keeps trying to help people bc despite everything he has been through, he hasn't become cold, he just has an unlimited amount of empathy in his heart, and he extends it to people even when they don't totally deserve it. He is the light in the darkness. This has been a consistent theme for him since S9E5 to S9E18. He started the season with developing a healthy relationship with grief and helping Abigail and ended the season with quite literally changing the fate of Esteban's life for the better by asking Ramon&Helena to help him figure something out.
Also, the constant mention of "chain of command" by Buck to tease Eddie is so much more important than a running gag in my opinion bc despite the system continuously failing people and Eddie being heartbroken about it, he still sticks to the damn Chain of Command. BUT his chain of command isn't any institution exactly, it's his people. His 118. He sees the Chain of Command as a support system that builds people up when they need saving and shields them from the heat that might come their way, and he has found that in the 118. He spent the last two seasons being beaten down by life, that eventually led to him feeling like he was stuck in a pit of grief, self doubt and self hatred, and then S9 has him building himself back up and being the light in the darkness for others as people have been for him, and that was his S9 arc.You can say it should've been fleshed out better (I agree), you can not like it, but to say he didn't have an arc at all is unfair. The writers did a wonderful job of giving Eddie a coherent arc and even if it's a little different from what we were expecting, it's still very important for Eddie's character.
As for Buddie and Gay Eddie, this season unarguably got them closer than ever. They were willing to kill for each other, and a lot of things Buck went through, the writers made sure to explicitly highlight Eddie's POV and how he's feeling about what Buck is going through, like last season it was Buck's POV which was highlighted when Eddie was going through something. The recovery arc in particular framed him as the spouse and then Theo's storyline set up Eddie's very active involvement in raising him in S10 which lines up with what Ryan and Oliver have said in interviews.
I've said this a hundred times, the writers have written themselves into a corner with their storylines, and the corner has only gotten smaller and smaller and I think the writers are aware that there's almost no wiggling room left to still portray them as "just friends". They've established neither guy wants to date, and Oliver, Tim and Ryan have all said Eddie is going to be a HUGE part in the Buck-Theo storyline. Not to mention, Ryan kind of defined the idea of Eddie reacting to Buck possibly being in love with Eddie as its almost like when something is so close you can't see the bigger picture, that its right under your nose but you can't see it and that says a LOT about where they're in their relationship and what the future holds. So yeah, it's definitely not over, in fact we are on the runway, the Buddie plane is about to take off!!