• Next week’s 911 will see Chimney, Athena, and the rest of the 118 scrambling in the wake of Maddie’s disappearance.
• EP and showrunner Tim Minear teased fans late last year saying, “by the end of Episode 10, everybody’s life is changed,” and to “to blow it all the hell apart,” after the first half of the season reunited the 118 and tied up loose story ends after a shortened season 7.
• In a new interview, Minear also reveals that Jennifer Lynch (who directed the first three “Begins” episodes in season 2 (Hen, Chimney, and Bobby), along with directing the season 3 premiere) returned to direct 08×10. He calls it “the scariest episode we’ve ever done”
Spoke with Tim Minear about #911onABC's midseason return, what's in store for Maddie, Buck and Eddie's tension, what to expect from the rest of the season, and lots more!
We are so back. (Get ready for the longest thread❤️🔥) https://t.co/RZJAeuLwNV
— Nicole Gallucci (@nicolemichele5) March 7, 2025
• Minear goes on to tease Abigail Spencer’s performance in 08×10 saying, “Abigail is lights-out. So good.”
• He reveals that the final argument between Eddie and Buck was written differently, and it was Eddie’s actor Ryan Guzman who suggested that Eddie lose his full patience with Buck in that scene.
• Some more season teases: Cast member Aisha Hinds is directing episode 11 (titled “Holy Mother of God” which also happens to be the crossover episode with Doctor Odyssey)! That episode will feature some exciting guest stars: Leslie Ann Warren is set to play Bobby’s mother, and Sean O’Bryan will play his older brother Charlie. Anirudh Pisharody is back as Ravi in this later half of the season. Episode 12 (titled “Disconnected”) is expected to be a big Eddie episode (this also happens to be Ryan Guzman’s 100th episode on the series).
• And finally, they’re planning another big two parter in the middle of the season! Minear says that episodes 14 and 15 will be a two-parter on the scale of the season 8 opener.
‘9-1-1’ Star Jennifer Love Hewitt Calls Serial Killer Abduction the ‘Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Maddie’: https://t.co/Exbpxy41W1
— 911, Actually (@911actually) March 7, 2025
• Hewitt says that she was excited about the challenge, “For me, these episodes are really fun, even though I know that the audience wants her to be happy. It’s when I feel like Maddie is the most Maddie, because this is what she was put on the planet to do, unfortunately, to survive over and over again and fight like hell. And she’s good at it.”
• She also teases the aftermath of the two-parter and what lies ahead for the characters for the second half of season 8: “This season feels like every character is really going through it in all these different ways. Everyone is transforming. Tim is a genius. He really knows how to say to the audience, “Don’t get comfortable.” This season feels very much about these people and who they are and how they’re growing and [what] they’re being put through. Lots more of that coming.”
I talked to Oliver Stark this week about the return of #911onABC and this conversation was all laughs & fun! I hope you guys enjoy this one as much as I did 🫶🏾🚒🔥https://t.co/3IEaYynzP8
— Whitney Evans (@Whip216) March 7, 2025
• In a post-episode interview, Oliver Stark says that in the wake of Eddie’s departure, “[Buck is] going to find himself in some situations or conversations that he considers somewhat uncomfortable, actually, as he’s forced to face himself in a way that he didn’t expect to.”
• He says he’s not too sad to see Buck let go of the loft, and that he’s “excited for Buck to be out of it and find himself in a new space and also get to play through what does that mean to Buck, not just to be in any new space, but to be in his friend’s old space?
