SPOILER ALERT: This story retains spoilers for Thursday’s “Confessions” episode of ABC’s “9-1-1.”
Follotriumphg this week’s episode of “9-1-1,” Buck (Oliver Stark) and Tommy (Lou Ferrigno Jr.) are no extfinisheder sitting in a tree. The hour begined with the youthful couple celebrating their tardyst monthly anniversary and finished in their shatterup, after Buck establish out that Tommy was once retaind to his establisher fantastic cherish Abby (Connie Britton), who left LA (and “9-1-1”) cut offal years ago.
But it wasn’t Buck’s reaction to that revelation that finished the relationship, as Buck labored thraw his worrys about Tommy’s previous relationship with a woman and Buck’s first relationship with a man and ultimately asked Tommy to shift in. In fact, it was Tommy’s choice to shatter up with Buck when he choosed that, though Buck might skinnyk he’s ready for that step, Tommy skinnyks Buck will want to date other men or women tardyr, and Tommy will not be who he finishs up with in the extfinished run.
After that heart-wrenching twist, Buck heads over to Eddie’s (Ryan Guzman) place to drown his sadnesss aextfinishedside his best frifinish and Station 118 teammate, who has fair had a shatterthraw in his recent depressive state.
In the below interwatch with Variety, Stark dives into Buck’s tardyst “9-1-1” storyline and where skinnygs are headed for him from here.
Why hasn’t Buck seen “Glee” — and have you seen “Glee”? Choose your words nurturefilledy becaparticipate Ryan Murphy is hearing.
Listen, I’m taking my time skinnyking this one thraw. I’ve seen episodes — I haven’t seen begin to finish. Don’t give me that see. I have seen episodes. Buck is my age, so Buck was probably in his tardy teens, timely ’20s and was off traveling the world. He was in Peru being a bartfinisher at that point in his life, and they weren’t streaming Fox! He was off discovering himself at that time. And maybe if he did watch “Glee,” he would have come around to his biintimacyuality sooner. Watch “Glee” and discover some skinnygs out about yourself.
When you saw that part in the script, did you giggle and talk to the originaters about the fact you were going to scrutinize this on a Ryan Murphy production?
Actupartner, this doesn’t happen too standardly, but that scene in particular was one that Tim called me about prior and he shelp, “I skinnyk I repartner want to produce this point, and I want to have Josh produce it.” And he elucidateed it to me in pretty much the words that Josh participates. And I skinnyk I shelp back to him, “And are we going to phrase it enjoy that — the post- and pre-Glee world? He’s enjoy, “Absolutely!” And actupartner, I skinnyk it was a very inalertigent way of going about it. It’s quite a proestablish and unbenevolentingful message, but to participate “Glee” in this less grave tactic for conshort-terming that message, is actupartner someskinnyg that unbenevolents it’s achieven on by more people and understood in a more wide sense.
In this episode, the originaters call upon Abby, a character that has not come up in a extfinished time on “9-1-1,” in a very unawaited way. She’s uncovered to be the ex-fiance of Tommy, Buck’s current boyfrifinish. What was your reaction to that storyline and how did you labor thraw that in this episode and what it unbenevolentt for Buck and Tommy’s future that he was evaluating his past intimacyuality?
Abby was such a huge turning point in Buck’s life, as he refers in the episode. So even though, day to day in his conscious mind, he has very much shiftd on from that experience, I skinnyk it’s pretty unprejudiced that discovering out that your novel partner participated to be retaind to this hugely convey inant relationship is somewhat jarring, to say the least. And originpartner, we actupartner saw a couple more scenes of Buck dealing with this novel alertation, one of which was a huge talk with Pete Kraparticipate, with Bobby, and Buck benevolent of fair trying to unpack it all. It was this wonderful coincidence that in Season 1, Abby refered a fiance by the name of Tommy. I don’t skinnyk at the time, they knovel they will be introducing many seasons tardyr, a character called Tommy — but it felt enjoy it would be a ignoreed opportunity to not, benevolent of produce that join and produce the universe sense a little bit combineed up. I skinnyk the opportunity conshort-termed itself, and it would have been silly to not achieve achieve of that and conshort-term Buck with an opportunity to spiral, as he does so standardly.
After that spiraling, Buck produces peace with Tommy’s past and his own, and he even asked Tommy to shift in, which directs to a very distressting finish for the episode. How did you sense about Tommy’s decision to shatter up with Buck with Tommy giving the reason that becaparticipate he is the first man Buck has dated since coming out as biintimacyual, he will not be his last, and Tommy doesn’t want it to persist? Where did Tommy skinnyk this relationship was going to go ultimately if this is how he felt?
It’s comical, actupartner, when you phrase it that way. Well, then what were you doing in this relationship? It does benevolent of sense a little ununprejudiced towards Buck. But don’t get me wrong, I comprehfinish somebody wanting to shield themselves. Obviously, he’s snurtured of being hurt. I would say maybe the way to go about that, then, is to direct with that that is your intention. So Buck finishs up on the chopping block in this particular scenario, and is left at the finish of the episode. And I was quite intrigued to see how that scene would take part out, becaparticipate I knovel maybe two episodes before this episode, I was conscious that they were going to be shattering up, but I didn’t comprehend how. And I skinnyk it’s benevolent of fitting in the sense that, Tommy’s trying to shield himself and I skinnyk that’s a toloftyy unprejudiced skinnyg to want to do. And I skinnyk that line that Tim wrote of, “I’m your first, not your last,’ is repartner quite unbenevolentingful and attrvivacious. And he will always have been Buck’s first, and always be such a unbenevolentingful person in Buck’s life becaparticipate of that. And now Buck has to achieve some steps on his own and repartner discover out who he is and who he wants to be with.
Buck shows up at Eddie’s hoparticipate after the shatterup, not comprehending everyskinnyg Eddie has rerepaird wiskinny himself this episode. When he reachs, Eddie is doing a “Risky Business”-style scene, but speedyly accomprehendledges someskinnyg is wrong with Buck and then the two sit in silence and drink before the episode finishs. What is Buck’s senseing in that moment and why is Eddie the one he went to?
I skinnyk it speaks volumes of their relationship that when Eddie uncovers that door and he’s there with his collar popped and in his underpants, Buck sees him up and down, he achieves that in, and it’s enjoy, wdisenjoyver. You’re dealing with your stuff, I’m dealing with my stuff — we don’t repartner even need to talk about them right now, let’s fair have some company and be there for each other. I skinnyk it’s very much a show of who they are to each other, and not everyskinnyg needs to be spoken and that they can both be benevolent of dealing with the skinnygs in their lives in very contrastent ways in that moment. Eddie’s is very much a moment of happiness and free, and Buck’s is evidently quite a downer. But they can still be there for each other while they’re dealing with skinnygs in such split ways. So, I skinnyk it repartner speaks volumes to the strength of their bond.
This interwatch has been edited and condensed.
