Bureaucracy's
a bitch, and no one is about to learn that lesson harder than the good people
at Fire Station 51 on NBC's Chicago Fire. After a season one that
included in-house fighting, theft, harassment claims, and mourning the loss of
their own, the second season starts with the team stronger than ever. But this
time, the threats of pulling them apart come from external, higher up politics,
not within.
On the second season premiere, "A Problem House", Chief Boden (Eamonn
Walker) gets word that budget cuts have his house absorbing the remnants of
another, recently closed house. But that doesn't mean 51 is out of the
woods, either. Notorious for issues within its walls, it's on a short list for
closure, too, and Boden decides to take preemptive measures to prove itself as
an invaluable asset to the community. But that's easier said than done when
more than half of the fires and accidents his trucks respond to in the season
opener are actually because of one of his own. Kelly Severide (Taylor Kinney)
is being targeted by an arsonist, led around the city putting out fires that
seem to have no other meaning than to taunt. This isn't a "case of the
week" situation in which the guy is caught at the end of the premiere,
either, but rather it promises to be an on-going problem, just another in a string
for Severide, causing Kinney to do a 180 from the joy-filled, joking dad-to-be
in the opening scene to the more internalizing, humbled guy keeping his head
down to avoid getting burnt by the end of the episode. Severide is not the type
to be scared, but he is certainly made a bit more wary about recent events in
his life and the slightly suspicious behavior around him.
Chicago Fire manages to deliver a couple of
absolutely gut-wrenching experiences for characters we've come to know and love
in the 44 minutes back for season two. From Dawson (Monica Raymund)
and Shay (Lauren German) tending to a gunshot victim who was thrown out
of a moving car while that car tries to evade police barricades in the parking
lot, to a fire jumping from one building to an adjacent one, trapping an
unconscious woman inside and requiring a double rescue, the stunts raise the
bar once again for this "not just a procedural" adrenaline-filled
drama. But it is the character turns and developments that matter the most
because long after the fires are snuffed out, it is what lingers for the people
that drive the story to the next week.
Severide's
predicament is certainly the most pressing, as it is affecting everyone who has
to fight those fires that seem to be set with a specific message for him. But
there are still ramifications from other relationships ringing loudly in this
episode, too. From Mouch (Christian Stolte) stepping up for more
responsibility, to Herrmann (David Eigenberg), Dawson, and Otis' (Yuri
Sardarov)'s bar being buried by competition, to complicated romantic
relationships still being in play, there are enough "outside the
firehouse" stories to satiate those who get claustrophobic, too.
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Source: Examiner.com
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