{"id":267961,"date":"2026-10-10T00:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/sheriff-country-ep-hints-why-morena-baccarins-husband-ben-mckenzie-isnt-her-season-2-love-interest\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:59:06","slug":"sheriff-country-ep-hints-why-morena-baccarins-husband-ben-mckenzie-isnt-her-season-2-love-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/10\/sheriff-country-ep-hints-why-morena-baccarins-husband-ben-mckenzie-isnt-her-season-2-love-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Sheriff Country\u2019 EP Hints Why Morena Baccarin\u2019s Husband Ben McKenzie Isn\u2019t Her Season 2 Love Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Sheriff Country<\/em> <\/a>fans who have been waiting to see how Morena Baccarin<\/strong><\/a> and Ben McKenzie<\/strong><\/a> share the screen in season 2 might be surprised to find out their characters likely won\u2019t be love interests on the show.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a huge personal element to their relationship. What their relationship has never been is there\u2019s never been a hint of romance between it,\u201d showrunner Matt Lopez<\/strong> exclusively told Us<\/em>. \u201cI think you\u2019re right that the audience will expect that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lopez, however, was excited to lean into something else.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWithout giving anything away, that much in the way that we opened season 2 not with a direct pick up from season 1 but from Mickey getting scraped off the floor of the Drake County Sheriff\u2019s Office, I love to subvert people\u2019s expectations,\u201d he teased.<\/p>\n

The Friday, October 9, premiere briefly introduced McKenzie as a sheriff in the neighboring Drake County. Not much else was revealed, which was intentional with a plan to bring McKenzie back in the future.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was just a little taste of Ben McKenzie for this season. A very light-hearted scene that also has tragic overtones. Mickey is probably at her lowest point and when we meet Sheriff Jim Wade, we see that he is there for her at her lowest point,\u201d he hinted. \u201cBut this season isn\u2019t about whether she can put her family back together. It\u2019s like can she put herself back together? And obviously, what\u2019s going on with her mother is a big part of that journey and what we\u2019ll see with Sheriff Jim Wade is he will play a role in that too.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lopez hinted at a deep backstory that will explain how the characters<\/a> first crossed paths before their relationship dynamics evolved.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we\u2019ll unpack in subsequent episodes \u2014 and he\u2019ll figure heavily down the stretch of our season \u2014 is that he and Mickey were at the academy together. They came up together and they\u2019ve been good friends. But even though they\u2019re roughly the same level of experience, he\u2019s been sheriff of Drake County for much longer than Mickey has been sheriff of Edgewater County,\u201d Lopez added. \u201cAnd Jim, at a time when there was great skepticism of Mickey, he was an early and vocal champion of hers. So it\u2019s a very close relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cHe\u2019s Skye\u2019s godfather and so there\u2019s a real level of trust there now. That\u2019s not to say that it will be smooth sailing. Ben and Morena are fantastic on screen together. There\u2019s an upcoming episode where they are in conflict and to call it an argument is an understatement. It is such an explosive scene. You could hear a pin drop on set. He and Morena stepped off the set and they were both like, \u2018We\u2019ve never played a scene like that. And it was so much fun.\u2019 And obviously, perhaps not surprisingly, they have great chemistry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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